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26th May 2012, 09:10 AM #1
I got abused in a carpark yesterday
I am waithing for a shoulder replacement, legally blind (tunnel vision) and no distance vision.
All of which are not immediately obvious except that I always need a driver whose back happens to be worn out and cannot be fixed.
So this woman was mouthing off about how easy it is to get a disability permit.
I was very good, said nothing just sent her "THE LOOK" but inside I was spitting chips.
It is so sad that so many are getting away with abusing the system and we, who are legitimate permit holders get abused.
WolffieEvery day is better than yesterday
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SAISAY
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26th May 2012, 09:51 AM #2Member
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I feel for you, I truly do...
Whilst I'm in reasonably good health (apart from being quite a bit overweight), my wife has a disabled badge (as they're known as in the UK). Whilst she does drive herself, occasionally I'm driving for her and we're both late 40-somethings. Outwardly she looks fine, and works through the pain often (which can be crippling on occasion). She has breast cancer (for the second time) and extensive secondary bone cancer too throughout her spine, hips, ribs, skull and pelvis, which means she is classed as terminal and it's degenerative. She's currently on a cocktail of about 26 different tablets each day, regularly has to dose on liquid morphine and is undergoing regular chemotherapy (for the third time in the last two years). Luckily this time the course has not resulted in her losing her hair. So like I said above she looks just as 'normal' as anyone. Whilst she is not a wheelchair user (yet), she can't walk too far when she's having a 'bad day' and when we visit the supermarket, she is often holding herself up using the trolly.
However, when we park in the disabled badge holder area, despite having the badge displayed we often get muttered comments from other 'older' disability badge holders about how we're obviously abusing the system. I sometimes think that they are judging us and think we have a badge because I'm a bit fat. It's also very annoying when non-badge holders have taken some of the spaces and we're forced to walk much further. I'm forced to bite my tongue as I could get very angry if I let lose.
My wife says she feels like saying to them... "You obviously want to benefit from my parking space, do you want my medical conditions too?"
We try not to let these sorts of things get us down though and generally look on the bright side of life. We still have a lot to be thankful for... We don't want to become bitter like those others who do abuse people like us.
Cheers, Chrome
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26th May 2012, 09:56 AM #3Senior Member
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Not to worry karma is a wondererful thing, I stood I front of a disabled bay last night, and wached a a man, with a name bage still on his shirt. "workplace saftey officer" park his JAG, get out an wlik in to the video store. The funny part was when he came out their was a ladie in a wheelchair waiting for him, man she could swear.
You carn't get that entertainment on TV,
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26th May 2012, 12:05 PM #4anne-maria.
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27th May 2012, 10:59 AM #5GOLD MEMBER
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Wanna be enforcers every where. An acquaintance was abused extensively the other day by a woman for chasing his small son who was doing the usual small child in a park thing & running away. She started running around the park (major sports field) calling him a pedophile & demanding people call the Police. Maybe they need to put something in the water supply.
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27th May 2012, 05:47 PM #6Jim
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28th May 2012, 10:20 AM #8
Would never happen in Brisbane because all the disability spots are taken by cars with no permits....
I was told by a work college the other week they have actually proved that people are ruder in Brisbane now than Sydney, the long time national benchmark. I'd suspected it for some years. Don't know how it was "proved" but there you go.
The boss has chronic fatigue and a number of associated conditions. At a glance she looks just fine and doesn't like to tell people how sick and how much pain she's in, so a lot of misunderstandings ensue.
I always bristle when the yuppie socialists tell us how much better modern Australia is. The anonomyous society riddled with jack attitude.I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
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28th May 2012, 01:32 PM #9Jim
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26th January 2013, 07:40 PM #10human termite
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It never ceases to amaze how some of these people get these permits,I quite often have to park long distances from where I am going,and I see these what I call able bodied people dart out of their car s ,with a spring in their step,and toddle off to the coffee shop for a few hours ,I forgot to mention I have a permit also but I won't use it if I don't need to,see the wheelien scooters,one to a parking spot,I received my ofirst knee on Monday ,next one in three months,well that's the plan,and then I will be handing back my permit,like so many others should "..................bob
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26th January 2013, 08:03 PM #11
Sometimes, when I have had enough painkillers, I too can manage a "spring in my step" and sometimes I even go and have a cup of coffee.
I cannot use my walker as I cannot control it ith one hand and my left arm is lame so I use a shopping trolly.
Sometimes I even forget to put my permit up..
The new blue national permits are a helluva lot more difficult to get than the red State ones that are being phased out.
Maybe I should hand in my permit?
Lucky you that your disability is temporary, for most it is a life sentence.
Judge not that you yourself shall not be judged.Every day is better than yesterday
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26th January 2013, 10:14 PM #12human termite
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This post was not a go at you,but you and many others know exacly what I am talking about,you see them every time you go out shopping,I don't know if they are drugged up to get a spring in their step,and there I s no suggestion that you should hand back your permit,I was just making an observation,bob
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26th January 2013, 10:55 PM #13GOLD MEMBER
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My wife says she feels like saying to them... "You obviously want to benefit from my parking space, do you want my medical conditions too?"
If it were me in that position I sure as hell would say that!!!!!!
I to have a disability, annoyed by lazy people that take a disabled spot, when they are not at all disabled, using Mum or Nan's permit as "they were in the car the other day!!!!!!!"
A note on the National Permits keep them out of the sun, they do not last long at all, they disintegrate very quickly.
Kryn
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27th January 2013, 08:05 AM #14
I have some notes in the car saying "Where is your permit?".
I stick that under their windscreen wiper.Every day is better than yesterday
Cheers
SAISAY
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31st January 2013, 09:55 AM #15
I am one of the ones that will be having to get a permit soon as I am half crippled most days getting harder to walk further than 100 mtrs before stopping when I have a good day I can do 500 mtrs but can not stand longer than 20 mins before my legs go numb I also have heart probs but still not allowed to get a pension need to be worse.
I always think that the shopping centres should increase the number of car parks for the disabled. As the nation ages people should be more considerite as not all disabilities are easily seen
Regards Michaelenjoy life we are only here a short time not a long time
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