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Originally Posted by jaysay

I have just picked up on this Rindi and don't actually know what the argument is about, but I can ony speak as a blue badge owner myself. Under rules of use, it states that a badge cannot be used if the badge holder is in the car. Personallly I only use my badge when absolutely necessary, when ever I visit the Royal Blackburn by car I usally pay because its so much trouble claming it back I just said sod it after the first attempt, but I still say payment for patients, visitors or staff is a tax on the sick and is an abomination

I think what you mean is “that a badge cannot be used if the badge holder is NOT in the car”.

In a different thread about Blue Badges and Disabled Parking I stated that ON ONE occasion I took my grandson with me to buy a few bags of potting compost. I parked in a disabled bay, gave my grandson the money and he went to buy the goods whilst I waited in the car. My attendance in the store would have been totally useless, seeing as there was no way that I could lift any of the bags or even push the laden trolley so I opted to stay in the car and have a fag.

I should add that I am also a Blue Badge holder and have been ever since the badge was orange.

On another occasion my son was with me when I went shopping at Asda. I parked in a disabled bay but found that I was unable to walk around the store so my son did the shopping for me whilst I sat in my car. As happens sometimes, my left leg had gone completely numb and I couldn’t stand up let alone walk. I drive an automatic so my left leg is redundant when driving.

You would think that I had committed the greatest atrocity of all time by the reaction of the “holier than thou obnoxious twerps who have never done anything wrong in their childish lives or taken an unfair advantage over their fellow humans”.

Just like a woman, who can detail precisely what a man has said and when he said it from dozens of years ago, garinda just cannot help but show what a really nasty piece of work it is by doing just that on every opportunity. There were others but apart from it and one or two others they have let bygones be bygones.

That’s what it is all about.

Now if someone complains about this thread being dragged off topic that accusation lies squarely at garinda’s door, not mine. I didn’t bring the point up.