Walking back from the pub this afternoon, we spied my daughter at the Co-op. Parked in a Disabled Bay.
We strode over to bollock her/coo at the children. "But the parent and child spaces are even further from the entrance!". And of course, while we were chatting, several other vehicles with perfectly fit and healthy drivers came and went from the bays, or generally parked in particularly stupid or obstructive places (with their engines running of course).
At the risk of having a rant, the disabled bays are there for a purpose, and that purpose is not to allow perfectly fit people to park closest to the supermarket door.
A friend of mine once had stickers which said "You have my space, do you want my disability?" I have a good mind to run some off myself.
Supermarkets rarely seem to enforce the use of these bays, presumably because they don't care as long as they sell something to the lazy-arsed, litter-dropping, selfish bastards who use the spaces.
There, that's better.
Addendum: It's a bit like Guerilla Gardening, but I sneaked over after closing time and put "if you want my disability" signs up in front of the parking bays. Purely in a professional capacity you understand? We shall see.
15 comments:
You can label spaces with whatever you like, some wanker will park in it when he/she isn't supposed to. Used to drive me mad when trying to find somewhere to park my motorbike. On one occasion some lazy fat cow in a 4x4 decided to hog 3 motorbike bays. The more annoying part of that is: just you try parking your bike in a regular car-shaped space. Some nosey bugger will soon point out the "error" of your ways, guaranteed. Grrr.
In 100% agreement. Even when I've got Mum in the car I don't use those bays, (and it would be soooo mush easier to) and get infuriated at the people who do.
BTW, we have now applied for a badge!
Jenny
I hope you reported your daughter for the littering
And by the way, nuts to the parent-and-toddler bays. Just because someone chooses to pollute the world with their screaming, pooping progeny shouldn't mean that the rest of us who pay the taxes to fund the little buggers should have to walk extra far.
Damn, it's about time I had kids.
Ooh, that bugs the hell outta me too!
Lazy fat-asses who won't walk an extra 10 yards from a normal space!
Love the slogan - you should have some pre printed to slip onto the windscreen of offenders! :]
Sweavo: the *main* reason for the parent & kiddy bays is to give some extra width so that parents can open the doors to extract the kids without bumping the adjacent cars! Why they put them near the front dor is another issue.
Really top work there LH.
I'm with you all the way!
Yes, Rab worked out well, especially after he came from Holloway - some other motive there methinks
Mmmm, the last person I commented to in public over something similar threatened to beat me up.
Mind you, I suppose you'd be fairly safe if it was your daughter :-)
Block them in with a car with a disabled badge. Ha Ha!
Thanks for the thumbs up, guys. The signs were gone by today, of course. And yes Rob, I am aware of how people react when they are accused of being ignorant tossers;-)
Great plan Max! Watch them remonstrate with someone in a chair who cant fight back. Love it.
You could even Organise a Flash Mob of Blue Badge People. It would be good if you could get loads to turn up at once and surround all the illegally parked cars. I'd better stop now before I get silly. I'm not going to mention water pistols
Well done Hutters! I challenge everyone I see doing that. I managed to get a disabled colleague their own disabled space marked in our very small car park under the office where I work. The last person I challenged in a supermarket told me he was disabled as he strode off quickly trying to avoid me.
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