Yeah, when I said "akin" to parking in a disabled carpark, I wasn't equating it to being on par with being disabled... but thanks for the sensationalism cowcar...
Then i suggest you look up what the word akin means.
http://thesaurus.com/browse/akin notice this part:
Synonyms: akin, alike, comparable, consonant, convertible, correspondent, corresponding,
equivalent, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, like, parallel, related, resembling, undifferentiated, uniform
Hence my use of the term “equating”.
but thanks for the sensationalism cowcar...
The only sensationalism demonstrated in this debate so far has been from you (see above), and bageled.
what I meant was, it's a carpark designated with a certain set of criteria... perhaps a better analogy would have been "I equate parking in the parents with prams carparks with parking in the reserved carparks at come centres, like the ones that say 'Reserved for Doctor XXX-XXX" or something... techncially you CAN do it, unless you're a terrible driver you should be able to manouver your vehicle into one of these parks... they aren't protected by invisible forcefields or whatever... but to do it would be rude, and, well, just not cricket
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I’m sorry, do you think the debate is about whether we know what the signs mean or not?
The debate is about the morality of taking the car space, not whether you are allowed to or not. Hence the nuance. Persoanlly I wouldn’t park in a car park that is reserved for someone specifically, as they are reserved because that person has paid for the space. So taking that space would be theft.
I love how everyone is getting up on their high horse about it... there's a reason that the carparks are there, if they weren't considered a necessary convienience, the shopping centres wouldn't have them... if you don't have kids in prams, don't park there... if you're not disabled, don't park in the disabled parks, if you're not Doctor Do-Little, don't park in his car space... it's just common courtesy.
Once again trying to EQUATE this to parking in handicapped zones. Its not the same. I would be quite happy if they converted them all to Handicapped car spaces, wouldn’t have a problem with that. I also wouldn’t have a problem with them if they only applied during the week. But on the weekend it is total nonsense, and why I will continue to park in them if they are free.