There's probably loads more, but then I am hurtling through old git-dom.
Strange(?) that you should link to the Asda incident.... I
also have a Blue Badge; and I nearly always use a walking stick -- strangely, because I find walking difficult (and
extremely painful...).
A couple of days ago, I was holding both the stick and the badge, after having crawled my way out of the Punto, with my usual lack of grace: when I was approached by someone even older than me, who had parked in the Disabled bay, in front of the one I was in. He had a loud and breathless rant at me about the fact that these parking spots were "only for people with disabilities", blah, blah, blah. All I could say in return -- as I was rather taken aback -- was that I
was disabled. I didn't even get a "sorry". He just turned his back on me and walked away.... :bang:
At least I survived to tell the tale. My shock and upset is nothing in comparison....
And yet
my additional "old git-dom" complaint
was going to be about
non-disabled drivers (e.g. George Osborne) using Disabled bays as short-term free parking spots: probably not
maliciously... -- just without thought for other people... (how unusual...) -- not realizing that, often, because of their laziness, we will then be forced to walk further than we wanted to/were realistically capable of. (I
can walk some distance,
some days: but the increase in my already high levels of pain may then render me even more useless than normal for many days after.... Cycling produces the same result -- which is why I don't go that far... -- but is much less impactful on my spine.... The point I was trying to make, though, is that surely it is up to
me to decide how much additional pain I'm willing to cope with...?)
Gizzards of the world unite, and all that.... :slayer:
PS: Sorry to have taken this so far off-topic.... 
