Probably a massive overestimate I reckon. In all the car parks I use, I see generally mostly empty spaces for disabled, and most of the cars in them have to appropriate badges in the window. Don't get me wrong, I think anyone who uses one out of laziness is an arsehole too, but it's few and far between. It possibly seems a bigger problem [i]because[/i] it's such a cockish thing to do, but I really think you're overestimating its magnitude. And allowing it to cloud your perception of anybody who has to use one.
Btw, I used one in Birmingham airport car park the other day. I was dropping my father in law and his wife to departures. If you'd have been sat in the car park watching me, you might have thought I was an arsehole. No blue badge in my car. Neither my FiL or his wife has a blue badge, but he can hardly walk due to a recent foot op. He'll be fully recovered in a few months so no point in applying for a badge is there, really? Of course, once he exited the car (after me, looking fit and magnificent...see? Arsehole!), you'd have seen he had a brace on his leg and was struggling to walk properly, and you'd probably have said "oh well, that's alright then..." Because you'd have had visual evidence. Shame that's not always available for the presumptuous.
I had to use my mums blue badge (she's 84 has a ostioperosis (sp) and struggles on a bad day, which fortunately aren't too frequent) when I went to pick up my dad from hospital after he had a double heart bypass. Also used it to pick up my mum from the hospital when she was visiting my dad. Oh and when I had to take her to A&E coz she'd had a mini stroke. Now if you had seen me skipping about (I always dropped them off at the door) you'd think I was a cock abusing the badge. One time I persuaded my mum to walk about .5 of a k back to the car, never again, esp when it started raining! Guilt the size of Texas!
Can I add White SUV drivers. Scum one and all. On the phone, no signals, ignoring the highway code (in its entirety) and think they own the road.cocks and trophy wife's one and all...
Left-wing intellectuals. People influenced by left-wing intellectuals and who know what to think not how to think.
