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Argh! The kid in the houses behind us is in a wheelchair
Everyday the bus that picks him up for school parks right across our driveway and spends at least 5 minutes lowering the ramp and getting him in and putting it all away before driving off. Today we got our daughter in the car and started driving out and he just parked right across us so we beeped and he ignored. Then the woman came down with her son in the wheelchair and they just got on with it slow as ever. My wife called the number on the side of the bus and was told "Can't you be patient" to which she replied "I phone nearly everyday because he makes me late, he's blocking our drive, he could park on the other side of the road where there are no driveways" She gets the reply "But he's disabled" then she gets out and the kids mother gives her this evil look and my wife kicks off saying "don't give me that look love, you've made me late again my car was moving to get out the drive and he just blocks me in" she gets the reply "But he's disabled" Now this happens every fucking day and people think that we are being dicks because we won't wait five minutes to get out of our drive. The mother has threatened to phone the police and tell them we are "anti disabled" Now my wife is at work and she has just got a mouthful for being late. Everyone tells us we should just park on the road so they can't block us. So we shouldn't use our driveway?

So are disabled kids Gods way of punishing parents that sinned when they were younger?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 9:53, 97 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Fucking flids
You should let their fucking tyres down.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 9:56, Reply)
But but but...
then they'd still be in the way of his driveway... but for even longer. You're not giving me blue sky thinking Mont! *gurns*
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 9:58, Reply)
You need to think outside the box a bit more.

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:02, Reply)
I would think outside the box more
but I'm too busy pushing this envelope!
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:09, Reply)
You need to toss those thoughts in your mental frying pan.

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:15, Reply)
I've ran out of them now and I used to be in marketing - that's bad
Erm... shall I use brain eggs in my mental frying pan!?! help
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:21, Reply)
I'm just brainstorming
throwing some ideas up in the air to see what sticks. There's no glass ceiling in B3ta.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:11, Reply)
Indeed indeed
*fiddles with glasses*
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:13, Reply)
if there's no glass ceiling
how can we facilitate the blue sky thinking?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:13, Reply)
let's touch base on that later.
But for now, going forward, you're going to have to give me some ballpark figures so we can action some 360 degree thinking.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:20, Reply)
I'll run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:26, Reply)
My my that's a fair amount of rage for this early in the day!
If the bus turns up at the same time everyday could you leave 5 mins earlier than usual to miss the bus and the dramas!? I realise you shouldn't have to leave early but... shit happens!?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 9:56, Reply)
Ah but it doesn't turn up at the same time everyday
and why should we?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:02, Reply)
I totally understand where you're coming from
but it'll save your sanity to leave the 5-10 mins earlier.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:09, Reply)
Its not my sanity unfortunatly its the wifes
You may have noticed by now she is unreasonable and very highly strung. I am more pissed off about the fact I will now have to spend the next week around a pissed of wife and any chance of a shag in the next fortnight has just gone out of the window all because of something petty like this. Grrrrr
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:12, Reply)
Ah so this is really about sex then

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:13, Reply)
Yes
I haven't had sex this decade.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:16, Reply)
Predictable delay in your journey?
Leave earlier, retard.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 9:58, Reply)
Hehehe
See you said what I said, only less nice-like! :D
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 9:58, Reply)
Seriously why should we?
Its illegal to obstruct someone's drive way and there's plenty of other places to park. Plus the bus gets here at random times. Sometimes its not an issue as we are gone but this morning the car was fucking moving when he pulled across the drive.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:03, Reply)
Realistically though
how big is this window of opportunity? Can you not shift your schedule by 5 minutes for the sake of a guy in a wheelchair!?

*edit* just saw flim flams post above. Ignore me!
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:05, Reply)
Again, why should we?
There's no need to block our driveway at all. There's loads of parking around the road. I don't give two fucks if its a disabled kid or a boy racer. Its my driveway and there are other options. Can't the moron bus driver park on the other side of the street?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Does this not entail
the wheelchair user having to cross the road? In practice not a huge issue but surely a nightmare for the public image of the school. Especially when the conflicting issue from the schools point of view is "temporarily blocking someones drive".
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:13, Reply)
Its not a school
its the F T Williams bus company. Plus they could actually park up the road and block the driveway of the Disabled kid which means he would have even less distance to cover. That one of the reason my dearest wife is pissy, there's so many other places to park.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:18, Reply)
To stop you being late and looking like an idiot?

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:06, Reply)
Unfortunately unless you or your wife are a member of
an emergency service you've got no hope! If lives don't count on you getting to work on time you're fucked! :(
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Not the case
We had a similar issue in our old house where someone kept parking across our drive. We called the police and one morning they called the driver who ignored them and so they came out and moved it for us. If they are blocking you out they don't do much but if they are blocking you in they move it.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:10, Reply)
That's impressive
usually it takes a lot longer to get the police to do anything about it... did you pretend you were a local councillor or something?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:16, Reply)
No I sucked off the Chief Superintendent behind a bus shelter in 1997
got special treatment ever since
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:19, Reply)
Ah good thinking
Could you not call him now to sort out your problems?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:22, Reply)
Spose
No-one has answer my original question though. I never asked for advice on driveway blocking disabled kids.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:26, Reply)
I would say the answer to your original question is no
because god doesn't exist
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:30, Reply)
I'll answer your original question:
No.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:31, Reply)
It's not illegal.
They have twenty minutes to load or unload in front of a dropped kerb.
www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/ukpga_20040018_en_9#pt6-pb3-l1g86

My da is disabled. For every disabled person blocking your drive for five minutes there's an able-bodied cunt without a blue badge in a disabled parking space that he genuinely needs.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:15, Reply)
That right there is a very valid point!

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:17, Reply)
Or worse
and able bodied cunt driving a car with a blue badge. Usually because he sometimes has to transport his gran once in a blue moon.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:18, Reply)
Aye, that's naughty.
That's not allowed.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:21, Reply)
Outside a bar in Manchester
I saw a brand new Ferrari parked on double yellows right outside the bar entrance, there was a blue badge in that. Surely a Ferrari is not the most convenient of vehicles for a disabled person to try and get in and out of. It had a parking ticket on it though which pleased me immensely, so I guess the traffic warden didn't believe it either.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:58, Reply)
For every able bodied cunt with a fake blue badge
there are hundreds of empty disabled parking spaces at my local Sainsbury's, last night the entire carpark was full bar three full rows of empty spakker spaces.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:19, Reply)
Reminds me of the Viz Top Tip
Supermarkets: why not place all your disabled parking spaces at the end of the car park furthest from the shop to discourage able bodied drivers from parking in them.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:21, Reply)
I've always thought this.
Surely having a space reserved is enough :P
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:27, Reply)
Entirely this.
I appreciate you want to get out of your drive, but do try to have a bit of heart. It's not the end of the bloody world.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:20, Reply)
I would have heart
if they had no other choice. But its almost like they are doing it because they know it will piss us off. They could park in front of their own drive but noooo they park in front of ours and then walk down the hill.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:25, Reply)
Its not illegal to park
but it is illegal to obstruct. I've had that confirmed but my local police peoples.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:23, Reply)
I'm one of those semi-able bodied cunts with a blue badge.
However, when I am having a good day I don't use it. I use it probably 6-7 times a month but when I do use it, I need it - usually at the mall or grocery store (they're also the days you'll see me bombing round the store in one of those scooter things with a shopping trolley on the front!)
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:27, Reply)
I am in retail
and you would not believe the number of times some cunt has tried to get special treatment becase they're 'disabled'. It really makes me angry 'can you give me a discount? I'm disabled'. Fuck off! Why??

There are some dignified and lovely people with disabilities who genuinely do want to be treated like everyone else but there are plenty more milking it for all it's worth and they make me fucking sick.

Unpopular as he is round here, one of the things I thought was genius about Phoenix Nights was the fact that Brian Potter was an utter cunt who played the disabled card at every opportunity.

A cunt with no legs is still a cunt. You don't necessarily become a selfless, noble human being by becoming crippled.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:03, Reply)
My wife asked my yesterday if I would leave her if she became disabled
I said that depends on if you become a whiney bitch about it.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:05, Reply)
excellent

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:10, Reply)
I've had this as well
I've even had the "I've got cancer and have X months to live" schtick. To which i replied, "So have I, I've got cancer of the customer, now FUCK OFF you diseased CUNT"




I didn't really.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:14, Reply)
I am struggling to live with chronic Sympathy Deficiency Syndrome

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:35, Reply)


I am in love with the world
With its fires and its seas and its pain
I am in love with the world
As it spins round my soul again


I fell in love with the world
When it gave me a place to be
You cannot fall out of love
With your world shining through
Let your world fall in love with you

With you

You think you're lost to the world
With your life lived in shadows of fear
Days lost without you too long
No-one close no-one kind no-one near

You try to hide when your world dies inside
Never fade away
Dreams turn to stars so you don't
Lose the end of your day
Let your world fall in love with you
With you

I felt your feelings before
And the world tried to pull me through
Through all its time and its space
It is speaking to you


I fell in love with the world
When it gave me a place to be
You cannot fall out of love
With your world shining through
Let your world fall in love with you
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:06, Reply)
Ah how lovely!
Music will clearly diffuse the stress!
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:24, Reply)
And it was sung by disabled kids.
And the People's Princess loved it.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:09, Reply)
I made a disabled lady cry yesterday.
She had a car accident locally, lost both legs, eight months in rehab, wheelchair, first time back to work after the accident at the start of this year and she calls me for a contract and I price it using our standard model. She accepts and sends it off to DWP for some Back to Work scheme or other. We pick it up for two weeks and my boss tells me it's five quid too cheap as she's in a wheelchair and it takes a long time to get her in and out. He tells me to phone her and tell her we need to put the price up by five quid. She cries and hangs up and I feel like a cunt.

This morning I got a lovely card from her thanking me for all my help making me feel like a doublecunt. She's made alternative arrangements.

Just doing my bit there, Phillijoe.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:13, Reply)
you absolute cunt

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:14, Reply)
Leg racist!

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:20, Reply)
Ah I don't mean the last bit.
She was fucking lovely and it's almost destroyed my soul upsetting her because my boss is an impatient prickbucket.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:22, Reply)
Heaven help you
if YOU lose your legs. I'm very, very disappointed in you, Noel.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:25, Reply)
I was doing as I was told
and I feel fucking horrible. If she was a cow, nasty to the drivers etc I'd not be too fussed but she was absolutely lovely :(
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:29, Reply)
It gave you the slight power-horn and you know it.
Don't bullshit me - you MEGALOMANIAC flid-hater.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:32, Reply)
I almost walked out at work a few times....
We had an account-job, a regular one, that needed someone to pick up a pescription at local hospital, go to the only late night phamacy (ASDA), and then drop the meds off at the old folks home. They said it's pain meds for someone with something horrible, on his death-bed, and we only had an hour to do the job. The controller, dispite me nagging him every 5 mins to give the job out, left it 'till the last 15 minutes to even send it out, and it didn't get done in time. I felt so guilty over that.

Another time, a driver wouldn't take an old lady who lost her husband in the A&E from the hospital 1 mile down the road, because she had no money. The controller agreed with him. He actually said "Fuck her, this is a buisness, not a charity", so I said "You know what? I'll pay for it.", for a 10 minute job (the guy was already parked up outside), I had to pay an hour's work. He came into the office and demanded (not asked, demanded) his money, so I gave it to him, and for the rest of the night, I kept on pre-allocating him bucket-jobs and knocking him back.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:37, Reply)
An hour to do the job, because they closed soon.

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:43, Reply)
what complete cunts
people don't seem to understand that doing stuff like that occasionally is good for business
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:46, Reply)
Because all the drivers are self-employeed, they have the attitude of "Why should _I_ lose money over it?".
There are a few that'll do charity-jobs like that.

I understand that it's a buisness, but if someone does a freebie or someone does a runner, we put them back to the top of the queue, so it doesn't effect them except a few pence in petrol.

I was controlling once, and this guy reffused a charity job, but I found someone to do it. That chairty job, because it took him half way into the west-end, into the west-end, and then back out of the west end up to our area... he ended up making about £70 because he did that. In the mean time, the guy who skipped the freebie, in the same amount of time, made about £9.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:56, Reply)
ah I see
the good for business thing doesn't really apply when they are self-employed
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:58, Reply)
I did nightshift driving for four months
and did a fair amount of freebies in that time. One woman I dropped at a pub who'd been bawling her eyes out cos she'd had a fight with her fella, I told her to spend the fiver on a couple of drinks. If you've never seen a crying woman covered in mascara and snot suddenly burst out with smiles and thanks, you haven't lived.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:08, Reply)
Yeah', doing that sort of thing can be very rewarding.
I remember there was an old lady who wouldn't give us her real name or where she was going. I ended up going downstairs and talking to her, she was a bit excentric, but harmless. I said to her "I'll tell you what, what's your favorite charactor from a book?" she said "[something, can't remember]" and I said "We'll call you that then, nice to meet you [name]. Tell me what area you're going to, and you can work out the exact details with the driver", and she said Finchley, I said "Can you narrow it down a bit? Finchley is a big area, don't tell me the road, but is it north/south/east/central...etc ?" and she told me. She ended up going to one of the mansions just around the corner from Bishop's Ave*. I don't know anything about tips and stuff, but she phoned up the next day and said she was so pleased with 'the nice young jewish boy'.

Everyone took the piss, called her my girlfriend, but the feeling I got from helping her really put me on a high.

* It's one of the most expensive roads in the world, I think the starting-price there for a flat alone is about £5m, for those who don't know it.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:25, Reply)
Keep your eye out for Honda Accords driving too close, eh?

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:24, Reply)
Never mind.
Tomorrow is 'National Smack-a-Spack Day'.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:24, Reply)
So, here's a plan
One day, take a day off work. Move your car out onto the street.

When the bus arrives, block it in with your car for as long as possible. Have a big row with the kid's parents and the bus driver. Perhaps even a fight.

Video it and post it here for us to laugh at.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:26, Reply)
Good plan! That's the best plan yet!

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:28, Reply)
Oh man, this is a great idea, get a mate to block him in the front.
And then you block him in the back.

Double-bonus for if their phsyically-retarded-chair is at the back of the bus.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:29, Reply)
triple bonus
for having a long leisurely wank in the street whilst standing right in front of the wheelchair kid.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:31, Reply)
Oh yeah this is good!
Then totally post the video on Ooooh-Tube too and hopefully you'll get all famous and rich, then you can buy a helicopter and park that on the kids lawn!
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:36, Reply)
Before I answer the actual question
You are Glenn Hoddle AICMFP.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:30, Reply)
We have a winnah!

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:35, Reply)
challenge the tard to fisticuffs
that way, your wife cannot fail to be impressed by your manly display of manly manliness in a man-tastic man-ner, and will then allow you access to her fabled lotus garden. plus, you'll be up against a tard, so you'll have the time to try out all those super-cool moves you always wanted to pull in a fight but knew would be too slow/complex/obvious against an able-bodied protagonist.. time for a well-aimed chuck muthafuckin norris roundhouse kick to the spleen, followed by a five point death punch thing, followed by shouting 'SPAAARTAAAAAA!!!!!!!' an cunhting him in the fuck so hard he falls into a mine shaft.
what could go wrong?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:36, Reply)
And if I do all this I get laid right?

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:37, Reply)
Sounds like it'd work
You'll need to dig a mine shaft first though!
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Nope!
Live in Cornwall! There's shit loads! In fact there's one just up the road that they could park in front of. No-one needs access to the old minehouse and shaft.

Hahahaha "Shaft"
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:45, Reply)
Hehehe
Mine shafts always make me think of the scene in The Great Outdoors when John Candy is pulls a bear out of a mine shaft on a rope and then he screams like a girl.

I love The Great Outdoors! :D
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:51, Reply)
I dunno.
Didn't she find the nine minute anal rape scene in Irreversible a little too violent for her sexual tastes?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:45, Reply)
that'll be fine then
phile only nees six minutes, including disrobing and the post-coital cigarette he's not allowed to smoke.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:47, Reply)
he's not going to rape the disabled kid
jesus....


not for 9 minutes anyway. a disabled kid? 30 seconds and he'll be spent

edit: bah, mindpiss
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:47, Reply)
Couldn't you leave five minutes earlier?
sorry if somebodys already suggested this - too many posts to read.

Everybody has to make allowances for someone. When peoples kids are being driven to school in their own individual, personalised SUV, for example, I have to leave the house earlier because traffic is slower. When they're off school, sleeping in, loafing about and being generally useless, the roads are bliss.

rafter
baz
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:52, Reply)
this may be logical to a rational, sensible, y chromosome owning mind
but that's not who we're dealing with...
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:54, Reply)
Have my favourite disabled story.
At my cousions engagement party was a guy called, well I forget. Let's call him Hootie.

Hootie was telling us the tale of when he parked his car in a disabled spot (as he had a blue badge) and got out the car whereupon a traffic warden saw him and shouted over
"Oi you don't look disabled what you doing parking there?"

As the traffic warden walked over Hootie took off his fake leg and threw it at the traffic warden screaming
"Am I disabled enough for you now!?!"
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:01, Reply)
Haha
Mental picture of the week.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:10, Reply)
hahahha
that's fucking awesome

my favourite story involves my mate Tom. He was working indirectly for the council doing stuff with traffic lights. While out on site one day he sees a blind guy using the traffic lights he was working on.

Later that day, this blind guy phones the office and speaks to my mate about some problem.
Tom: "Oh, I think I saw you there earlier, were you wearing a yellow jacket?"
Blind guy: (irate) "HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW? I'M BLIND!"
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Write a letter
To the bus company, explaining the situation and suggest that they park on the driveway of the disabled boy instead of blocking you in. Or across the road. suggest that their driveway would be easier than across the road because of the lowered pavement. Also say that you have spoken with the phoneline, so they can't fob you off with that. And that you have already spoken to the parents of the bus passenger with no result so you have chosen to take it to the company.
It would be okay to mention that your wife was late for work, if it will get leverage.

Get British, get writing.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:15, Reply)
Or
Plant several expolsives under where the bus stops.

next time it happens blow that bus full of window lickers up.

Yippiekaiaye motherfuckers that will learn youfor making me wait 5 goddamn minutes.

Yeah I'm willing to cause a stupid amount of fucking damange for 5 fucking minutes.

argh rar feel my wrath

Yeah now I've wasted some of yoru fucking precious time making you read this you goign to blow me up too?

ARGHGHGHGHGH ARRGHGHGHGHGH
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:23, Reply)
'There is a bomb on the Sunshine Coach
and if you block me in I again I will detonate it without warning.

Hubba hubba, pig bastard'
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:42, Reply)
Dress up as a clown and pretend you're from the "Wish-Upon-A-Star Foundation"
knock on their door and tell them they've won an all included trip to Disneyland.

Everyone will see the funny side when nobody shows up to take them to the airport. For a final moment of comedy gold, phone up hours later and explain the limo was blocked in by a bus picking up someone in a wheelchair.

Then burn them, BURN THEM ALL
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:41, Reply)
Drive to the company which provides the service
and park your car right across their drive as the staff are clocking off. Proceed to belm like a motherfucker, giving your best rendition of mongish spacktardery and generally fanny about for 20 minutes. Repeat until point is made
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 11:52, Reply)
please do this

(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:01, Reply)
Thats what my father in law suggested
he, unlike my wife, is a legend.
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:03, Reply)
Easy
Just leave the house a bit earlier?
(, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:17, Reply)

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