Grr, thoughtless normies....

[davidgillon]

I was in town earlier, just as it got dark, picking up a repeat prescription and I wanted some cards as well. So I came out of the chemists and headed for the art shop, which meant crossing the road, but there is at least a kerb-cut half-way between the two. Only as I came in sight of it I realised there was a car parked exactly where it is. No cars parked for a hundred metres in either direction and he picked the kerb-cut to park across.When I got right up to it he was only parked across a third of it, the side-slope if you like, but the effect was me being completely masked from oncoming drivers as I tried to cross the road in the dark. (I'd already had narrow escapes from a cyclist and a car on the way to the high street). Now there wasn't actually anything coming when I crossed, but I think I can reasonably say it was a pretty irresponsible piece of parking.

It was a police car....

Comments

[capri0mni]

Face-palming so hard, here, I can tickle my occipital lobe...

LOL at your "Location."

[davidgillon]

Love the icon!

[capri0mni]

Thanks!

[kaberett]

I keep meaning to carry big obvious stickers with THINK ACCESS and pictures of wheelchair/pushchair/walking stick on for this kind of thing, and actually end up leaving passive-aggressive notes on napkins under the wipers.

[davidgillon]

I like that idea!

I was within a couple of feet of rapping on someone's window a couple of weeks ago. She'd just stopped her car in the middle of the road, right across the kerb-cut. She happened to look up and see me just as I went to lift my arm and did drive off, but she looked most annoyed at my presumption in wanting to use the kerb-cut.

[untonuggan]

argh, yes. here we have a lot of "just running in for a minute, gonna park my car in this big marked off space which is clearly not meant for curb cuts or people in vans to get their accessibility devices out or anything like that!"

I do like it feel a sense of accomplishment when someone is idling in the "clearly meant for accessibility rectangle" and I pull into the accessible space, and my stony-faced stare makes them drive off. A++ work on the stony-faced stare of accusation.