mikesbytes wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:10 am
A few years back I was in Auckland where my Mum lived and drove her to Auckland Zoo. When I arrived there was only 2 disabled parking spots and they were both taken, both displaying disabled parking. I had to illegally double park and put Mum in the wheel chair and then leave her at the entrance while I went to look for parking, which to cut a long story short turned out to be 1.6k from the Zoo. I ran back to her as she didn't have a mobile so I couldn't contact her to tell her why I was away for so long. Clearly there weren't enough disabled parking there and I put feedback in about that.
A few years back I came back to my car in a supermarket carpark to find someone had parked myself and about 20 other cars in. Basically just parked their car in the middle of the carpark.
Waited five minutes for her to arrive back and told her that sort of behaviour really wasn't acceptable. She went on a massive rant at me about how the handicap park was unavailable and that was the only place she could park. Only problem was she didn't actually have a handicap parking permit on her car or look even remotely disabled (of course that's no guarantee).
I just took that as a sign that some people's sense of entitlement is greatly disproportionate to what they're actually entitled to. Your case sounds completely different, it just reminded me of that event!