Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

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[quote author=Dynspud link=topic=17546.msg286110#msg286110 date=1541010977]
So.
Me and the missus were sat in Costa (upstairs in Next) having a lovely coffee together. Sat in a window seat with with a view out over the car park (not the greatest view in the world) but enjoying watching the world go by at the end of the working day, pointing out different cars we like or dislike, what we'd buy if we could afford it and, if we're lucky, get to see the odd motorbike or two.
So far so good.
And then, one of my REAL pet hates, a 40 something woman turns up in a Ford KA and jumps out in her velour tracksuit, obviously nothing wrong with her, and dashes into Next to buy herself something nice, after making a foccin' awful attempt at parking her car in between the bay lines, in a disabled space, which is really wide to allow genuinely disabled people enough room to exit and get back into their cars - see pic a.
To top it all off she's got a disabled badge on the dashboard which obviously isn't hers so she has probably borrowed the car & its badge off a relative or someone she knows.
Really grips my sh!t  :thumbdown top


Then a few minutes later, just after I've finished venting my spleen to the missus, another 40 something woman does exactly the same by parking next to the first one but this one doesn't even have the courtesy to display a disabled badge FFS!!!! - see pic b.


It's not as if the car park was anywhere near full either - just pure laziness and not giving a foc about others.


I hate it.

I agree with what you say, but not everyone "looks" disabled.
They may have a breathing condition that is worse some days than others for example.
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:agree

I know several people with blue badges. Some are obviously disabled as they need walking frames/whatever to get about. The 2 closest to me in terms of family however are less obvious. My father-in-law looks a bit frail when he is walking but make him walk 100m and he is just about ready to collapse due to heart issued. My niece, who is only 20 years old has a degenerative condition that some days she can seem to be running around. Give it 20 minutes though and she will be a wheelchair for the next few days. Similarly, make her walk 200m and her legs give up. She would love to not have to use the disabled spaces but if she didn't...…..


It does p!$$ me off though when I see the gits at the local shops pull into a car park with loads of spaces and just go straight to the 2 disabled bays because they are closer to the shops.


A lot of people don't realise that its illegal to use a blue badge to park you car if the owner of the badge isn't in the car, or if they are, is not getting out of the car. After all, why do you need the disabled spaces if the disabled person can just as easily sit in the car at the far end of the car park?