Since when is it ok to park in disabled spots?
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Originally Posted by OllyK
Sorry??? You have no choice - you always have to take your child to the supermarket? You can't leave them with a parent, partner, child minder etc or go shopping when they are at school, in nursery, in bed (with partner / baby sitter looking after them) and go late night shopping?? You are not trying very hard if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by OllyK
Sorry??? You have no choice - you always have to take your child to the supermarket? You can't leave them with a parent, partner, child minder etc or go shopping when they are at school, in nursery, in bed (with partner / baby sitter looking after them) and go late night shopping?? You are not trying very hard if you ask me.
Originally Posted by OllyK
I see - if I have a kid I will suddenly consider myself as worthy of priveledged parking as somebody with a disability??
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You know nothing about me otherwise you would realise how absolutely ridiculous the above statement is.
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LOL you really don't have a clue, lovely theory but wait till reality ![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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Why do parents choose to have kids and then whinge about how difficult it is??
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Originally Posted by OllyK
The point being this was a thread about "parking in disabled spaces" and all of a sudden the Parent and Child space users jump in as if people mis-using those spaces is just as important - it isn't, if you want to whinge about that, start a new thread - that's my point.
Why do parents choose to have kids and then whinge about how difficult it is??
Why do parents choose to have kids and then whinge about how difficult it is??
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Originally Posted by TelBoy
As has been said, there are MANY times when this just isn't practical, affordable or whatever.
Believe me, shopping with youngsters is NO fun
"Worthy" is your word. How do you know that ALL disabled drivers have as much of a disability as a mum with two toddlers (who really CAN be a disability, believe me)? You're generalizing to make the story fit your views.
Not sure why patronisation and "mystery" have to be part of this. The probable fact is, you have no real-world experience on which to base your views about this, and it shows. And i think you know it. I probably thought similarly myself at one time, before i knew better.
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Of COURSE we had an idea what responsibilities having children entailed. Having to take them shopping is one of them. Using the specifically designated parking bays is a way of minimising the inconvenience and danger of undertaing that activity. It really is bloody obvious to anyone who's had to do it what the advantages of these things are.
You also know damned well what i mean by referring to two screaming kids as a "disability". Trying to infer i am twisted for doing so is, with respect, pathetic.
If you DO have kids, then the further assumption i'll make is that it's your wife who does the majority of the shopping, possibly while you look after them. If you did the shopping regularly, on your own, with young kids, you wouldn't hold the views you do. It's THAT straightforward.
You also know damned well what i mean by referring to two screaming kids as a "disability". Trying to infer i am twisted for doing so is, with respect, pathetic.
If you DO have kids, then the further assumption i'll make is that it's your wife who does the majority of the shopping, possibly while you look after them. If you did the shopping regularly, on your own, with young kids, you wouldn't hold the views you do. It's THAT straightforward.
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Originally Posted by TelBoy
Of COURSE we had an idea what responsibilities having children entailed. Having to take them shopping is one of them.
Using the specifically designated parking bays is a way of minimising the inconvenience and danger of undertaing that activity. It really is bloody obvious to anyone who's had to do it what the advantages of these things are.
You also know damned well what i mean by referring to two screaming kids as a "disability". Trying to infer i am twisted for doing so is, with respect, pathetic.
If you DO have kids, then the further assumption i'll make is that
it's your wife
who does the majority of the shopping
, possibly while you look after them.
If you did the shopping regularly, on your own, with young kids, you wouldn't hold the views you do. It's THAT straightforward.
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I personally DON'T use parent and child bays because i think it is better to teach the children how to cross roads safely
you generally don't need to cross the road from parent /disabled bays
you generally don't need to cross the road from parent /disabled bays
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If you have to take the kids shopping, park in a normal bay and leave em in the car! If they're THAT much of a pain the ***, no-one's going to want to nick em! If it's hot, leave a bowl of water and crack the window a few centimetres! ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
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LOL, i'm NOT complaining - i'm just pointing out the fookin OBVIOUS advantages that these parking spaces afford parents who have to shop with kids in tow!
You can pull apart posts and repeat "assumption" as often as you want, but i'll continue to treat your views with the indiference that i currently am, based on your OBVIOUS lack of real-world expereince here. I'm almost at the point of enjoying knowing that the existence of these spaces distresses you - from the unpleasant side of your character you're displaying over this, i wouldn't be surprised if i'm not alone in that.
Pugoetru - at our supermarkets, the parent/child spaces have a pavement leading to a zebra crossing across the road, so you can teach road-crossing skills without having to expose kids to the (obvious) dangers of walking amongst moving cars in the car park.
You can pull apart posts and repeat "assumption" as often as you want, but i'll continue to treat your views with the indiference that i currently am, based on your OBVIOUS lack of real-world expereince here. I'm almost at the point of enjoying knowing that the existence of these spaces distresses you - from the unpleasant side of your character you're displaying over this, i wouldn't be surprised if i'm not alone in that.
Pugoetru - at our supermarkets, the parent/child spaces have a pavement leading to a zebra crossing across the road, so you can teach road-crossing skills without having to expose kids to the (obvious) dangers of walking amongst moving cars in the car park.
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Originally Posted by mad_dr
If you have to take the kids shopping, park in a normal bay and leave em in the car! If they're THAT much of a pain the ***, no-one's going to want to nick em! If it's hot, leave a bowl of water and crack the window a few centimetres! ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
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Unfortunately, at the age that kids are for whom these spaces are primarily designed, anything more than 10 minutes of parental absence can lead to great distress. As i've said, most parents avoid taking kids to supermarkets at all costs - it can be a nighmare. Occasionally, unfortunately, it's all but unavoidable. But parent/child spaces do help, obviously (to most people).
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Originally Posted by mad_dr
If you have to take the kids shopping, park in a normal bay and leave em in the car! If they're THAT much of a pain the ***, no-one's going to want to nick em! If it's hot, leave a bowl of water and crack the window a few centimetres! ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
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Originally Posted by TelBoy
I'm almost at the point of enjoying knowing that the existence of these spaces distresses you
- from the unpleasant side of your character you're displaying over this, i wouldn't be surprised if i'm not alone in that.
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Yeah, you're joking about the water, surely? I mean, they might spill it on the seats!
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Ooops i may have assumed something here <ducks for cover>
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Olly- Whereby I commend your attitude towards the importance of disabled parking bays I can't agree with your crusade against parent and toddler bays.
Telboy didn't honestly imply that children were a disability in the true sense of the word.
Both a disability and children are harder than being childless and able bodied, so why not have things to make day to day life easier?
Telboy didn't honestly imply that children were a disability in the true sense of the word.
Both a disability and children are harder than being childless and able bodied, so why not have things to make day to day life easier?
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There speaks a man who is neither disabled, NOR had to cope with two young kids on his own, making assumptions (lol) that the two are entirely dissimilar...
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Telboy didn't honestly imply that children were a disability in the true sense of the word.
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Originally Posted by the moose
Yeah, you're joking about the water, surely? I mean, they might spill it on the seats!
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NOR had to cope with two young kids on his own, making assumptions (lol) that the two are entirely dissimilar...
Hmmm - yeah lots of similarities.
It amazes me that we have people who choose to become parents. Choose to bring a life in to this world, supposedly with the intention of passing on their genes, nurturing that child, loving it, caring for it, educating it, providing for it etc etc and then claim that the child is some kind of hardship. Its your child, your choice, yes parent and child spaces may be a "nice" thing to have, but compared to a people with disabilities it does count for spit in the scheme of things. Its a simple point, that people seem to have things out of proportion here and consider something that is "nice" for them is as important as spaces provided for those with disabilities.
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PMSL at some of the comments on this thread.
At my local sainsburys a few years ago they had a dedicated car park for disabled parking. The whole car park was then 'refurbed' and the number of disabled parking places multiplied overnight. I have never ever seen even half of the disabled places occupied, which makes me wonder why are there so many. I'd assume that many of the abled bodied people who do park in these places feel the same and say to themselves that there's plenty of spaces for disabled so I'm not doing any harm.
If there were less disabled spaces rather than masses of unsed bays I think there would be much less of a problem of abled bodied parking in these spaces.
What I also find interesting, genuine disabled card holders parking in their designated bay, then walking around all the other bays checking who has the relevant disabled documents on display. Surely this is a bit ironic?
I don't park in disabled spots. But if the situation arose where there were no spots for me to park in and there were a load of empty disabled spots, then I'd park there.
At my local sainsburys a few years ago they had a dedicated car park for disabled parking. The whole car park was then 'refurbed' and the number of disabled parking places multiplied overnight. I have never ever seen even half of the disabled places occupied, which makes me wonder why are there so many. I'd assume that many of the abled bodied people who do park in these places feel the same and say to themselves that there's plenty of spaces for disabled so I'm not doing any harm.
If there were less disabled spaces rather than masses of unsed bays I think there would be much less of a problem of abled bodied parking in these spaces.
What I also find interesting, genuine disabled card holders parking in their designated bay, then walking around all the other bays checking who has the relevant disabled documents on display. Surely this is a bit ironic?
I don't park in disabled spots. But if the situation arose where there were no spots for me to park in and there were a load of empty disabled spots, then I'd park there.
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Sure, there's a difference between "nice to have" and "need to have", but i really am failing to see what the difficulty in accepting BOTH is.
From where i'm sitting, you're saying that by having kids, parents who "choose" to take them shopping should struggle with them in a supermarket carpark, since to provide any sort of solution to make it easier is just pandering to their lifestyle choices. Don't you see the selfishness of that train of thought yourself? If there's the space, why the hell NOT provide assistance? I can't think of ANY valid reason, not one.
From where i'm sitting, you're saying that by having kids, parents who "choose" to take them shopping should struggle with them in a supermarket carpark, since to provide any sort of solution to make it easier is just pandering to their lifestyle choices. Don't you see the selfishness of that train of thought yourself? If there's the space, why the hell NOT provide assistance? I can't think of ANY valid reason, not one.
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Originally Posted by mad_dr
If you have to take the kids shopping, park in a normal bay and leave em in the car! If they're THAT much of a pain the ***, no-one's going to want to nick em! If it's hot, leave a bowl of water and crack the window a few centimetres! ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
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Originally Posted by scoobynutta555
I don't park in disabled spots. But if the situation arose where there were no spots for me to park in and there were a load of empty disabled spots, then I'd park there.
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Originally Posted by scoobynutta555
PMSL at some of the comments on this thread.
At my local sainsburys a few years ago they had a dedicated car park for disabled parking. The whole car park was then 'refurbed' and the number of disabled parking places multiplied overnight. I have never ever seen even half of the disabled places occupied, which makes me wonder why are there so many. I'd assume that many of the abled bodied people who do park in these places feel the same and say to themselves that there's plenty of spaces for disabled so I'm not doing any harm.
If there were less disabled spaces rather than masses of unsed bays I think there would be much less of a problem of abled bodied parking in these spaces.
At my local sainsburys a few years ago they had a dedicated car park for disabled parking. The whole car park was then 'refurbed' and the number of disabled parking places multiplied overnight. I have never ever seen even half of the disabled places occupied, which makes me wonder why are there so many. I'd assume that many of the abled bodied people who do park in these places feel the same and say to themselves that there's plenty of spaces for disabled so I'm not doing any harm.
If there were less disabled spaces rather than masses of unsed bays I think there would be much less of a problem of abled bodied parking in these spaces.
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Originally Posted by TelBoy
Sure, there's a difference between "nice to have" and "need to have", but i really am failing to see what the difficulty in accepting BOTH is.
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I'll repeat myself again. If you have kids and the parent and kids spaces are full or non existent where you go shopping big deal, it is an inconvenience. Stop trying to lump it in with people parking in disabled parking spaces and suggesting that it is as much of an issue, it isn't. You can cope, belive me you can.
This is a thread about people parking in disabled spaces. Its like trying make a big deal about kids scrumping apples when the thread is about ABH, yes they are both wrong but at very different ends of the spectrum.
From where i'm sitting, you're saying that by having kids, parents who "choose" to take them shopping should struggle with them in a supermarket carpark, since to provide any sort of solution to make it easier is just pandering to their lifestyle choices.
Don't you see the selfishness of that train of thought yourself? If there's the space, why the hell NOT provide assistance? I can't think of ANY valid reason, not one.