Wot a Waste of Money

[Barman]

I'm staying in Epsom at the moment (until Tuesday when the good weather will undoubtedly appear  ) at the far end of the high street-ish...

Between us and the shops is a mahoosive car park... it is always at least half empty because it is soooo far away from the shops (well a few minutes walk). As you get closer to town the car parks obviously get fuller and fullerer...

Unsurprisingly, the dozen or so spaccer disabled persons who hold a blue parking badge parking places are always empty... I've never seen a spaccer disabled persons who hold a blue parking badge parked there. It makes sense, there are spaccer disabled persons who hold a blue parking badge places right in the middle of the town (and they can park on yellow lines anyway?  ) so why would you park at the end of town and wheel/hobble yourself all the way in...?

This week the spaccer disabled persons who hold a blue parking badge places were all blocked with traffic cones... I assumed that they were going to be removed and leave more parking places for normal people...

But no... On Friday the council burnt off all the yellow markings starting at early o'clock and by the end of the day had re-painted them making the spaccer disabled persons who hold a blue parking badge places even bigger than before and taking up more of the car park...

I presume they had a surplus in the burny-off re-painty budget this year and needed to get it spent lest they'd lose it for next year...?

Given the current financial crisis, the person that could not spot that this was a completely daft waste of money should be hanged sacked immediately....  

[GROWLER]

What's a spaccer?
New one on me that tbh. Southern slang?

[Barman]

What's a spaccer?
New one on me that tbh. Southern slang?

 

A disabled person Growler...

[GROWLER]

What's a spaccer?
New one on me that tbh. Southern slang?

 

A disabled person Growler...

Gribs up here. A few other names too, but can't won't repeat them in here.

[Snoopy]

As the possessor of a Blue Badge ......... 

[GROWLER]

As the possessor of a Blue Badge ......... 

Well I haven't gorra blue badge granted, but you wanna 'ear wot I get called by my customers...and friends aquaintances...and family, and everybody that knows me in fact.
Even I call meself a total and utter twat sometimes.

[Barman]

What's a spaccer?
New one on me that tbh. Southern slang?

 

A disabled person Growler...

Gribs up here. A few other names too, but can't won't repeat them in here.

Gribs! 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

I too have a blue badge....This is badgerism Snoops I think we should get some free therapy and some compensation.

[GROWLER]

I too have a blue badge....This is badgerism Snoops I think we should get some free therapy and some compensation.

I tried to get even onto the bottom rung out of three of the invalidity benefit system, as i am UNofficially classed and UNregistered as having a physical disabilty, but I was turned down.

[Nick]

Growler's failed attempt to be a grib 

[Barman]

I too have a blue badge....This is badgerism Snoops I think we should get some free therapy and some compensation.

You'll get no compo from me!

[GROWLER]

Growler's failed attempt to be a grib 

Correct. Can't be bothered fighting it tbqh either.
Stuff 'em.

Wouldn't mind, but it was the quack that suggested it too!

[Barman]

Fixed 

[GROWLER]

Fixed  

I have my theory as to why I was rejected, and my mate that WAS a motobilty sales specialist before he was 'released' agrees with me too.
Wasn't even as if I was after a 'free' car either. Just the 15 snotters or whatever the lower rate is  these days, would have been a little bit of help  after a life time of paying and continuing to pay me taxes.

Serves me right anyway.
I should have taken the first option of two options the specialist gave me on that fatal day back in '97 p'raps, and decided to sit on me fat arse all day long feeling sorry for meself and claim benefits.

[Snoopy]

1) The cars are not fvcking free. The disabled person has to pay for a motability vehicle.
The Motability Scheme is a charity that leases the disabled a vehicle and payment is demanded monthly. The vehicle has to be renewed every three years, is restricted on mileage and cannot be driven by your wife unless she is driving you somewhere or performing some task associated with your care. (For instance she could not use it to go to the hairdressers when her car breaks down or the insurance would be invalid)

2) To qualify for a blue badge you have to be proved (medically) to be immobile. In my case I was assessed (and reassessed every 3 years) to be unable to walk, unaided and on a level surface for more than 75 yards (prolly meters now).

Since you proudly gallop up and down your me'ill on an almost daily basis you clearly do not qualify for a mobility allowance and any attempt to convince the authorities otherwise would amount to attempted fraud.

If (either of) you ever reach the stage where, like me and Miss C, you are unable to reach the local shops and return home on foot, a journey of 160 yards in my case and you can get a DSS medical board to agree that you have that level of disability (with  reviews every three years and snoopers secretly filming you whenever they get a complaint from some twat that another Spacca or Grib is actually more fit than they claim to be) I shall remind you of this exchange.