I may need some help here.
This has been bothering me for a while now. I have a hatred, but I can't decide whether it's rational or not. Maybe you good folk could tell me?

Occasionally, I'll stop by a 24-hour Tesco of an evening to pick up some scran. I'm usually there at about 10pm, long after the usual shoppers have departed, the day-staff have clocked off and the specially-trained team of shelf-stacking zombies have taken over, wheeling their giant cages into the aisles and putting something shit on the radio. Without fail, whenever I visit at this time of night, the same thing has happened in the car-park; The first few disabled parking spaces are occupied. Occupied by cars which seem to belong to surprisingly abled people.

Shoppers march briskly up to these vehicles with creaking trolley-loads of mechanically recovered deep-fried bumholes, piling it into the boot with impressive ease before abandoning their trolley and speeding off in their battered-fat-laden cars. Cholestorolls-Royces, if you will. Or even if you won't.

Oh yeah, and the space closest the shop has always got some cock and his Max Power shit-heap in it, demonstrating his booming sound system and vintage tax-disc.

Anyhow, herein lies my dilemma; Seeing these able-bodied people use these spaces pisses me off. However, I can't work out whether my hatred is justified. One voice in my mind says "Come on, it's 10pm, there are still some disabled spaces free (albeit the ones at the far end), and anyway, it's a Tesco car-park, the disabled signs aren't legally binding, it's private property, you're being pedantic blah blah".

And then there's the other voice, which doesn't actually say anything, preferring instead to silently imagine marching these feckless able-bodied shit-nozzles into their cars at gunpoint, welding the doors shut, driving a tank over the whole bastard row, then taking a tin-opener to the remains of each roof, hauling out the twitching carcasses and feeding them through a wood-chipper into empty 1kg margarine tubs.

And then presenting each tub with its own blue badge.

So anyhow, rational or irrational? Which voice is right? Please help me decide.
(costas, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 21:39, 9 replies)

I see your dilemma
On one hand, if they aren't actually stopping a disabled person from using the space it's not really that terrible, but then again, disabled people are as entitled to shop at 10pm as everyone else and they just *might* actually prevent a disabled person from parking. So for that reason, I think the voice who gets annoyed with them is right. It's ok to assume nobody will need those spaces, but you can never be 100% sure.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 22:47, closed)

Listen to the other voice
These are the same twunts who become cashpoint cripples and insist on dumping their motor within inches of an ATM regardless of the local parking restrictions. Also to be seen by the returns slot outside Blockbuster, parked half-up the pavement despite there being several clearly marked bays six feet away.
Kill them. Kill them all.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sun 3 Apr 2011, 23:00, closed)

Send me your address.
I have spare ice-cream tubs.
(speedevil, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 0:11, closed)

What about the 4th voice??
The one that says that many disabled people have wanted the same rights as able bodied people for so long.
Pick one or the other, pick being treated equally and find a fucking space anywhere and remove marked diabled bays.
Or stop fucking bitching because a shop doesn't have a ramp.

Want to be treated equal, then struggle to find a space like everyone else.
Want to be treated differently, then keep your 'special' parking spaces.

I've been issued a blue badge, I rarely use it. I simply park in the first space I see, I don't care if it's a 5 min walk to the supermarket.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 1:44, closed)

Mensa Reject - What about the Blue Badgers who CAN'T walk? The reason there are disabled spaces is not so disabled people can be treated equally, it's so they are closer to the facility in question.

My partner has a blue badge, and needs a wheelchair to go all but the shortest distances. There have been many occasions where people have used disabled spaces when they shouldn't, creating a lot of pain for both of us. There are plenty of Council disabled spaces remember, they're not all private.

I sincerely hope you're telling a very poor, ill-informed joke - otherwise you are as ignorant as they come. I hope you continue to find your 5 minute walk from your car as enjoyable as you do now.
(NexusWR Long time listener, first time caller, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 8:29, closed)

Spot on
My cousin has advanced MS, and his partner is learning to drive because they've been housebound now for 6 years. She is going to need, not want a parking space as close as possible with plenty of room for the wheelchair.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:11, closed)

Selfish gits
I like how it works here in Australia. Even in private car parks (supermarkets, malls etc.) the disabled parking bays are legally enforced and you can be fined a significant amount ($2000 I think). I think that's not enough, infringers should be hobbled a la James Caan in 'Misery' so they can qualify for a blue badge.
( SteamedCleaner, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 5:05, closed)

Completely Rational
I get very wound up about able bodied morons who park in disabled bays.

However, the one time I actually called someone out on it (No blue badge and parked diagonally across two bays), his mate came hobbling out of the shop on a walking stick.
(Bad Monkey hasn't had an abusive gaz since, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 10:50, closed)

Doesnt matter if its rational or not...
...get your blow torch, tank and tin opener and post the fucking pics of the aftermath!
(Pectacular Almost spectacular...but somethings missing!, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:02, closed)