We were in town earlier and parked in a retail units area to go into some of the shops there. Outside one of the shops there were five disabled parking spaces. In one was a Mercedes with number plates displaying the name of the company the owner of the car obviously owns. Clearly not a disabled person. The other three spaces were taken with cars, not one of which displayed a disabled sticker.
One space remained. As we went to our car, I saw a car pull up into the space and turned to watch out of curiosity.
The woman driver leapt out of her car followed by two children of about 10 years old. Not one of them vaguely disabled. And not a jot of shame at what she was doing in not only taking up a valuable disabled parking spot but also the example she was setting her children.
Driving to units further down the retail park to go into another shop, we parked and went into the shop. Coming out a woman pushed past us and got into a car parked directly in front of the door. In the diabled parking spot. Not a bother on her, no shame, nothing, and just drove off.
How on earth can these people just pull into these disabled bays and go off and do their shopping without a care for those who might actually need to park nearer the door of the shop/s?
There is no excuse for it. And further, in the retail park we were in, parking in the other spaces would only have involved a few meters walk to any of the stores.
But worst of all today was seeing a person, with a disabled sticker on her car window, and clearly disabled, having to park well away from the first shop I wrote of here and make her way, with difficulty, and through the rain, to the shop in question.
When did people become so selfish?
