1 February (Part 1) - “Self-entitled bastard”
I
am several Council meeting reports behind the times which I shall blame partly
on my disabled daughter who is skilled in the art of screwing up computers big
time. If I claimed to have been involved in a certain amount of wheelchair
pushing too it wouldn't be absolutely true because she has just had one made to
measure - she is tiny - and electrically driven and imported from the USA. I am
not joking when I say that it cost about the same as my car is worth.
On the way to the Liz line for a rare faultless trip to Farringdon I took this
picture and while there showed it to my daughter. “Self-entitled bastard who gives
disabled people a bad name.”
It happens regularly. Someone who thinks a Blue Badge is a passport to
lawlessness (parking on junctions contravenes the Highway Code) forces traffic exiting Carrill Way to be on the wrong side of the
road while waiting at the Stop Line and then legs it up the hill to the Abbey.
Those with wheelchairs or genuine disabilities generally park in New Road where
there are disabled parking bays and a relatively flat route into the ruins.
Note: Photo for illustrative purposes only. I do not know if
this one was a Lesnes Abbey visitor.