is it just me? i travel extensively and try wherever possible to use Village hotels as they offer free use of the health club attached to their hotels. Every ££$%^^^ hotel i go to the disabled bays are full of cars not displaying badges and loads of cars parked on kerbs etc, being a filthy smoker i have sat outside and watched whos cars these are whilst having a coffee and a fag and they invariably belong to mid 20's gym users! WTF! so youll join a gym and sweat your guts out for an hour a night but you wont walk an additional 100 feet from your car! !"£%)"*&*£$&*$*($&*!!!!!

Sorry for the rant possibly just the aftereffects of a bad day on site but i think the point is still valid.
Oh and this isnt a pop at Village hotels, i have experienced exactly the same issue at the Fitness First Gyms i use if there is no Village hotel near site.

[Edited on 2/4/12 by snakebelly]

I really dislike people who park in disabled bays without needing to. Its just because they feel there time is more important than anyone elses, even if it severely impacts on a person less able than themselves.

Antitank mines are the answer. No blue badge, CABOOM!

Normally seems to be blokes driving cocksters too!

i have found these very amusing.......

www.revengeisyellow.com

as a father of a 2 year old don't get me started on people with no discernable disability but a blue badge who park in parent and child spaces as if it's a disabled parking overflow then leap out and pretty much run into the shop

My son is disabled ( bad hips ). If he sees anyone parked in a disabled space, he'll have a little chat with them.
Did i mention He's 6' 5 and built like a brick sh*t house
He once had a run in with a WPC for parking on double yellow lines.
She soon changed her mind when he asked for her badge number so he could report her.

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Originally posted by D Beddows
as a father of a 2 year old don't get me started on people with no discernable disability but a blue badge who park in parent and child spaces as if it's a disabled parking overflow then leap out and pretty much run into the shop

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nah, they'll be the ones with teenage kids who think 'parent and child' parking still applies to them.....

I've got every sympathy with those who really benefit from disabled parking space but am I the only one who thinks that some companies go way overboard in terms of the number of spaces they allocate to various forms of special parking spaces? The number of times I've got to drive past 20 empty disabled or P&C spaces just to get to one I am 'allowed' to use is ridiculous at times. They seem to overestimate the number required by about a factor of 3 or 4.

Most times I prefer to stay well away from the busy parts of the car parks but on those occasions where it's bucketing with rain or I'm in a major hurry, it would be nice to be able to park a bit closer. If one could rely on common sense being applied then under such circumstances with loads of spare spaces, it should be perfectly acceptable to park in a special space but I'm sure some jobs-worth would come along and quote the rule book at you.

Cheers,
Craig.

"They seem to overestimate the number required by about a factor of 3 or 4. "

Once again the ugly face of blame and compensation culture managing PC guidelaines

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Originally posted by ReMan
"They seem to overestimate the number required by about a factor of 3 or 4. "

Once again the ugly face of blame and compensation culture managing PC guidelaines

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Depends where you go, but there are alot of places that deffinitly have too many (Ever been to the supermarket around 11am on a sunday).

When my dad worked nights in Folkstone he used to have an old man that came in every thursday and complained about his truck being parked in the disabled space right next to the door (Which was procedure for safety reasons as the shop wasn't open when he arrived or left). The weird thing was though he finished an hour before the shop opened so the old man was arriving an hour before he could go in anyway.

It's not just people parking in reserved bays though, there is a huge number of people who just park like nobs, like my old neighbour who used to park his van over his drive and both people next door to hims or the ones that really get to me, people who park in traffic calming where the houses aren't even on the main road but set back from it with dead end roads they can park in.

The Tesco in Warrington put their disabled spaces further away than the normal ones.

People still insist on filling the disabled spaces first...

Anyone who genuinely had a blue badge deserves it but the abusers get the genuine people a bad name.

There's a florist near where I used to live and they have a blue badge on the van so the woman can park outside her shop on yellow lines and load plants and flowers into it. That doesn't seem quite right to me!