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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: KICKSTART on July 05, 2007, 01:13:15 PM

Title: Dont park in my space !
Post by: KICKSTART on July 05, 2007, 01:13:15 PM
Well what a lot of caring people we have in my country! I have just got into a heated discusion on a uk forum with someone over parking. A woman has just said that if the parking spaces for mother and child are filled at the supermarket she uses the disabled spaces , to which everyone said , well thats not right. Her reply was , well half the folk ,there is nothing wrong with them , they look fine , at which point i jumped in !!!! I said i might look fine , but i do have a serious illness and am sick of the attitude of people like her. I said i am sick of old men with walking sticks having a go at me because i DONT  look ill. Her reply was , if you look ok , it cant be that bad , and old men with walking sticks had every right to attack me !! Such a caring person, i hope she is never ill !
Title: Re: Dont park in my space !
Post by: okarol on July 05, 2007, 01:21:23 PM
Holy Mother Mary!! Parking places for Mother and Child??? Where were those when I was carting around my 4 little ones? Never heard of such a thing. It's not like being a mom is a disability anyway! Does she think having a child with her is equal to a person with a disabilty? Doesn't she "look" ok?? That woman is the epitome of "ignorance is bliss" and she should be blessed with what ever comes her way!  :urcrazy;
Title: Re: Dont park in my space !
Post by: LightLizard on July 05, 2007, 01:56:51 PM
that's one of the really big problems with kidney disease, people often look at you as if you're faking something because you look ok. even my partner sometimes challenges me because i don't appear to be as ill as i feel.
but that woman seriously needs a reality check.
Title: Re: Dont park in my space !
Post by: Hawkeye on July 05, 2007, 01:58:16 PM
Holy Mother Mary!! Parking places for Mother and Child??? Where were those when I was carting around my 4 little ones? Never heard of such a thing. It's not like being a mom is a disability anyway! Does she think having a child with her is equal to a person with a disability? Doesn't she "look" ok?? That woman is the epitome of "ignorance is bliss" and she should be blessed with what ever comes her way!  :urcrazy;

I have never seen parking spaces for mothers that have kids with them, but I have seen maternity parking spaces.  Either way though a disabled parking space is a disabled parking space.  If you do not have a disability or an illness that grants you a placard/license plate you have no right parking there and should have your car towed plain and simple.
Title: Re: Dont park in my space !
Post by: KICKSTART on July 05, 2007, 02:23:50 PM
This woman seems to think she has more right to park there because she has 3 kids and also adds ' if i am fit enough to walk round the supermarket , then i am fit enough to walk from a normal parking space on the car park ! the only people that should be able to use those spaces are the ones that have to crawl on their hands and knees !
Title: Re: Dont park in my space !
Post by: kitkatz on July 05, 2007, 03:20:15 PM
Someone certainly needs a reality check.  Whammo with a big stick across the head!
Title: Re: Dont park in my space !
Post by: charee on July 05, 2007, 07:53:52 PM
Here in oz we have the mother and baby parking spaces right next to the entrance , as Karol said where were they when i had kids but honestly did i really need them ???  I think disabled people have a greater need and its has been said before but heaven help that woman if she ever gets sick with an attitude like that :urcrazy;