'You can take my space if you take my disability'

Why do people think it's fine to park in disabled spaces when they're not entitled to? It's never ok. Not even when 'I'll just be a minute'. Not even when 'it's raining', nor even 'all the parent/child spaces are full' and certainly not 'but no-one else is using them, I'll move if someone asks'.

And absolutely not outside a high school because you're dropping a kid off for an after school class and they're the closest spaces - even though you can see the kid with a walker waiting by the space for her parents to come and pick her up. And when the woman walking by with the little kid didn't have the courage to do more than give you a mean stare, you shouldn't just look a bit shamefaced and carry on - you should get back in your ridiculously clean and shiny, never-seen-a-field, 4x4 and move out of the effing way while repeating until further notice: "I am a bad person. I will never park in a disabled space again."

Ahh, it feels good to get that off my chest. I'm always disturbed at my lack of courage in speaking up in those sorts of situations. I mean, if I ask politely no-one could complain about that could they?

I'm much more bolshy with people who park in parent/child spaces in the supermarket. When I lived in London and knew the chances of me running into anyone I was cheeky to again were very slim, I used to shout in a panicky way at people going back to parent/child spaces with no kids "oh no you've left your baby in the shop, quick, run". Oh, I used to live life on the edge in Fulham.

Here's a sunset taken with the assistance of my latest apprentice (Conor) who was just desperate to press the button.