Ranting About Car Drivers

Browsing the intarwebs this morning I found this site from which I blatantly stole the image for this post.

Disabled Sign It highlights one of the problems faced, world-wide by drivers with disabilities – trying to get into the parking spaces reserved for them. Have a read of the comments on the linked post, it makes for interesting reading.

There are two things that really bug me:

1. The number of parking spaces for those with disabilities. Don’t get me wrong, I fully believe that these spaces should exist. Those people with disablities have just as much right to easy access to places as I (as a fully able bodied person) do. However, every single car park that I go to has more than its fair share of disabled spaces. If you go to the multi storey car park in Fareham there are approximately forty disabled spaces spread over the first three floors of the car park. How many are usually taken? About ten. A little excessive don’t you think?

2. The toss bags that think the parking rules don’t apply to them. You know the ones, they are going to be “just a minute” while they nip into the shop and think this justifies them parking in a disabled space. Oi twat! Move your freaking car! Locks Heath Sports and Social Club has just implemented two disabled spaces right outside the front door. Fair enough, I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is when the bar staff park in them. We were stood outside smoking the other day when a guy turned up in his boy-racer golf. Guess where he parked? Yep! Not for long. He got a mouthful from four of us as he got out of the car and very quickly got back in and moved in (twenty feet!) to a “normal” parking space.

Collin on November 5, 2007 | Filed Under Words

3 Comments

george french on November 6th, 2007

Hi Mate
Actually went into Fareham Multi Story car park the other day and all the “disabled” spaces were in fact in use on the floor I was on – about 25 I should think. Tried to check them out for badges but was in a hurry. However, all the ones I could see did have them. I had parked in a “normal” space by the way.

Pete Rigby on November 7th, 2007

I quite agree. The blue badge brigade should be rounded up, shot, and then rigorously interrogated. This would ensure that the cheats were caught, and losing a few innocent cripples would be a small price to pay.

Imagine the difference it would make – no endless waits at Zebra crossings, no ridiculous cyclists slowing us down. What ? Yes they are cripples. They are mental cripples if you want to split hairs.

OK, I can see a little daylight ahead now, but to really tidy up the roads, we have to be firm. Don’t weaken now, just when we have started so well.

What is the bane of our lives as happy speedsters. You’ve got it – it’s older people. Look, I know they are all someones mum or dad,[you can sit this one out. not having either]. \how can I explain ? Look – how long do you keep a car? Not fourty or fifty years I’ll be bound. Quite – they will have to go. It can be quite painless these days. Perhaps send them some ‘Exit’tokens for Christmas. If you feel a bit tearful about this, then think of the inheritance.

I know I speak for thousands upon thousands of frustrated drivers. It is time to band together and make the world ours. Time to make this nut grow into a mighty tree.

Please e-mail me, or write to me at Ravenswood secure unit, Knowle, Nr Fareham Hants.

Collin on November 7th, 2007

Pete – thanks for the comment, it made me laugh out loud which is quite rare right now!

I have always said that old people should be shot at birth! I was out in the Mini this afternoon and stuck stuck in a 60 zone behind a biddy doing 26 MPH. The Mini fumed almost as much as I did!

Cornell Finch