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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

If the cap fits............

Please note that I did not mention anyone by name intentionally. On your original thread on a similar subject to this I agreed with your point of view until the thread went off on a tangent to pursue the line that someone who has a disabled badge should be entitled to park in a disabled space even if driving there on behalf of someone else and remaining in the car whilst the other person went shopping. I still maintain that this is equally unacceptable and depriving a disabled person of a space they may need.

Why should it be wrong of me to reiterate that point?

Why do you condemn this as 'moral high ground' when the whole point of this and your previous thread is that disabled parking bays are there for use by disabled customers? I am merely agreeing with that point of view, your point of view. Why do you find this so objectionable?

Of course you didn’t, that’s what a snide remark is. Aimed at someone without specifying whom but knowing that the person that the remark is aimed it will pick up on it and think, “do they mean me?”

It’s the sort of behaviour you get in a school playground.

To address your other point – I never said “someone who has a disabled badge should be entitled to park in a disabled space even if driving there on behalf of someone else and remaining in the car whilst the other person went shopping”. What I stated was that I saw nothing wrong in a disabled driver or passenger using a disabled bay and having an able bodied person go into the shop to do the shopping for them because they cannot.

The Blue Badge entitles the owner to park in a disabled bay providing that the badge is displayed. Full stop. If when the disabled person parks up and then finds that getting out of the car is just too much of a problem there is nothing wrong in having an able bodied person going into the shop on their behalf.

My car is an automatic meaning that my left leg is redundant as far as driving is concerned. Fortunately it is my left leg that is the problem and once settled in my seat the pain subsides. Although I can just about manage the very short walk from my front door to my car, a trip round the supermarket is virtually out of the question on some occasions. Yes I know some smart Alec will come back with “why don’t I use one of their electric carts?” Have you tried reaching a higher shelf from one of those carts? The simplest and quickest solution is to take an able bodied person with me. That way I occupy the disabled bay for the least amount of time thus releasing it for the next person to use.

You may not agree with that but it is nowhere near as bad as an able bodied person just using the disabled bay on their own having ‘borrowed’ the Blue Badge. Or worse still using a disabled bay with the excuse, “I’ll only be a minute.”

If you are to champion the cause of disabled people then target the real culprits not the disabled who bend the rules slightly for their own convenience.