Being fat and ugly doesn't count as being disabled

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yup it is a daily fail story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-windscreen-Tesco-car-park.html#ixzz3ZO1BOp3H

A woman who suffers from chronic pain was devastated to find an offensive note on her car after she used a disabled parking bay in a Tesco Extra car park.

Sarah Metcalfe, who also experiences severe muscle stiffness, discovered the message on her windscreen when she left the supermarket in Clifton Moor, York, with her 13-year-old son, Jack.

Written on paper printed with two large high-heeled shoes, the note said: 'being fat and ugly doesn't count as disabled - park elsewhere)'.
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Seems pretty harsh, granted she is a bit of a chub but no need to be rude to her about it. What is it about disabled parking spaces that winds people up so much? OK she isn't a blue badge holder but she appears to have a reason to want to use one and it is a private carpark anyway... if you see someone using a disabled bay but they're not visibly disabled it doesn't mean they're not.
 
I find the whole disabled parking completely ridiculous for the vast majority that are quite happy to shuffle round the shop for an hour or two but apparently need to be those extra few meters closer to the store. Give me a break.
 
You don't need a blue badge to park in disabled bays in a private car park, the spaces are there for the benefit of those with mobility problems so even if she was a fat thing that couldn't walk far she would be more than entitled to park there.
 
That's just nasty. Fair enough if you want to leave a note, but there's no need to be so unpleasant about it.
 
ColdAsIce said:
I find the whole disabled parking completely ridiculous for the vast majority that are quite happy to shuffle round the shop for an hour or two but apparently need to be those extra few meters closer to the store. Give me a break.
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That's a huge generalisation and a narrow viewpoint together in one statement - remarkable! If you have mobility problems, the fewer steps you have to take the better, no matter what activity you've been undertaking. Disabled spaces often have greater size to allow for easier wheelchair access and have trolley return sections closer by too.
 
Why do supermarkets have so many damn disabled bays in the first place. They are hardly used and they would be better off having more parent and child spaces
 
It might be a blessing in disguise to get her to sort her situation out.

I'm not a fan of fat people complaining about what they can't do when they can rectify the problem by eating the world.
 
I have a question, if she has such hard time moving around from her fall why has just applied for a blue badge when it happened 5 years ago? How has she coped for this long?
 
ColdAsIce said:
I find the whole disabled parking completely ridiculous for the vast majority that are quite happy to shuffle round the shop for an hour or two but apparently need to be those extra few meters closer to the store. Give me a break.
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I find the whole fighting for spaces closer to the shops laughable.
I don't now (order online, thanks) but used to park where the bays were all but empty, no chance of some porker parking close to me and twatting my car with their door.

You'll still see, even when it's busy, someone driving all the way up and down nearest to the shop to find that once space. If they parked up only slightly further away they'd already be in the shop walking around.
 
That's a horrible thing to do to someone. Having said that, if you don't actually have the badge then you shouldn't be in the space.

I would have left a less personalised letter. I left one one a Smart Car recently calling it small and stupid, but it was, and I wasn't commenting on the owner. I only called them moronic...
 
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