What is wrong with the person who owns this car? and the one behind has lost their mind too. There’s literally no way a wheelchair person could pass through.

Silly rabbit, wheelchair users aren’t as important as car drivers! 

Somebody in our estate does this and blocks a neighbour with Parkinson’s. Absolutely infuriating. 

But they’re important they are literally the only person in existence with something need doing. Your time isn’t important but there’s is and theyre only stopping there briefly in their timeframe

Absolute cunty main character syndrome. God’s special little shithead.

They’re assholes and unfortunately they are everywhere.

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If you’re ever on Davitt Road in Dublin 12, it’s this all the time. A person who lives there parks their car on the path all the time and their excuse (and you couldn’t make this up), is that they have a disabled child and need to park there.

Not just wheelchair users and parents with buggies, people with sight loss who need the tactile paving to find their crossing point are screwed too.

I work in road design, this why we need bollards everywhere. They’ll drive over the tactile paving when they’re leaving too, cracking it.

Looks like they even missed parking on the braille card.

And the visually impaired are affected too… A$$hats

often times see parking like this in the same place, heck I even saw a car drive ON the footpath and cycle lane just to get to the parking further up towards the signal

#makewayday

11 years ago, a colleague and I brought two men in wheelchairs into town for a day. We got off the DART at Pearse St. We walked in spitting rain and not a single restaurant was accessible. If not steps, high tables. The first one we found that was accessible was The Counter on Suffolk St. Walked in, the manager met us at the door. “I haven’t space for ye”. I pointed at the table in the window, which was the perfect height, with room to manoeuvre. She stared me down and said she didn’t have time to accommodate “two people and two wheelchairs” when she could fit more people at that table. By which I understood she meant “normal” people. Because “wheelchairs” aren’t people obviously.

We left. I told her she was a disgrace, but I wasn’t going to waste my time arguing with her to take our money.

Kept walking.

Next place we found was Nandos on St Andrews St. Asked if they could accommodate wheelchairs, absolutely! Lovely smiley manager and staff. They brought us straight to their lift, and while my colleague and one man went up, I chatted to the manager and told him our experience. He was horrified. He was so lovely to us. When we got upstairs to our table, we had our meal and dessert, the two men had a lovely time. When I went to pay, the guy told me there was no charge, that they were choosing to do a random act of kindness to show us we didn’t deserve such a shitty experience.

I went back to our table, told my colleague, and cried.

Accessibility is a massive issue, and accessibility with an intellectual disability seems to give some people the idea you can be dismissed and ignored.

Every single person in this country deserves respect, regardless of ability.

I currently work with a lady in a wheelchair who has no intellectual disability, well able to fight for herself. But some people ignore her and speak to me, or seem to see no issue with being visibly shocked she can speak for herself.

My career has led me to be extremely disappointed with the attitudes of some of my compatriots. The lady I currently work with actually told me the attitudes here are far better and more inclusive than other countries she’s been to (pretty much all of mainland Europe). So we’re the best, but shit like this still happens.

I appreciate op pointing out the difficulty for wheelchairs in this scenario. And I urge everyone reading to pay attention.

If you park in a wheelchair space, you might think it’s no big deal, sure there’s more. But the woman I work with is confined to end spaces because her car lift is at the side. If the end space isn’t available, she has to park far away, where she can guarantee her lift won’t be blocked, but then has to navigate through the entire car park knowing she’s so low people might not see her before reversing. Wheelchair spaces aren’t provided for comfort, they’re provided for safety. You popping in for a bar of chocolate “for only a minute” might stop a person who needs to get their vital groceries or prescription.

And this. This isn’t even a parking space. This is just being obnoxious, and ignoring the fact that someone in a wheelchair may not be able to do their shopping or go anywhere they need to because of selfishness. Someone may have to go home and miss appointments or have to put off a job they vitally need to do because they can’t get past.

It’s so important to call this shit out, and I really appreciate OP for doing so.

Apologies for the rant, I’m done now lol