Do you regularly park in disabled bays?

I don't park in disabled, and i don't park in P&C when i don't have my kids with me, it pees me off when people abuse them.
 
[FnG]magnolia;27281124 said:
I've never parked in one. I still feel guilty parking in the family spots even though we have two kids and are quite entitled to.
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Same here. Now my kids are older (8yrs youngest) I don't use the P&C bays. They are really meant for people who have to get small kids out so that they don't end up bashing someones door.

My wife annoys me as she parks in P&C even without the children, using the excuse that they are for parents who have children regardless of whether they are in the car. We've had a few arguments about that one!
 
Hades said:
Same here. Now my kids are older (8yrs youngest) I don't use the P&C bays. They are really meant for people who have to get small kids out so that they don't end up bashing someones door.

My wife annoys me as she parks in P&C even without the children, using the excuse that they are for parents who have children regardless of whether they are in the car. We've had a few arguments about that one!
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I park in them. Disabled I'll leave well alone, but p&c is fair game.
 
The worst excuse i heard after confronting someone was "I'm dyslexic". Yes, clearly dyslexia gives you serious physical discomfort requiring you to be closer to the store. It makes my blood boil when i see people doing it! P&C bays are no different, if you have no young children with you, you are NOT entitled to park there. They are parent AND CHILD bays, not Parent only bays.

My granddad has severe discomfort in his hips due to arthritis, seeing able bodied people park in the disabled bays with none available for us to park in is infuriating. Anyone doing it should be fined on the spot.
 
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No, I respect that they may be required by someone less able but I am sick of seeing so many empty disabled spaces in car parks when regular spaces are as rare as hens teeth.

I've also seen plenty of disability badged cars sitting in parent and child spaces when plenty of disabled spaces where available, although they where further from the door of the shop.

If you want people to follow the rules, you must abide by them too.
 
I've never done it but once I got that fed up with a Nurse parking in a disabled bay that I felt I had to do something about it. Every morning she would get out with no visible disability but place a blue badge on her dash. A parking attendant was now primed to watch her over several days and eventually confronted her. It appears it was her husbands and she thought she was allowed to use it even though he wasn't with her.
 
olivier renault said:
People who just can't find the energy to walk the extra 10 meters required, or need the extra room to move their lard ass around the Land Rover.

So... they are actually disabled? :confused:
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For me, when I use the P&C spaces it's because:

1: There are no other spaces and I'm nipping in to pick up 1-2 items with a turnaround time of a couple minutes or less
 
I've never parked in a disabled bay, but I do feel there are far too many of them provided. Especially at supermarkets, I never seem them more than 20% full.

It's equally annoying seeing people parking in the family spaces who don't have children.

I once saw a couple get into a car parked in a family bay, no children, and before they set off, they left their trolly in the adjacent bay, and emptied the rubbish from their car on to the tarmac. Nice people.
 
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