"Mark Fry" wrote in message
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"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Disabled drivers can get a pass which allows free access to the toll
road
for three years. It costs a fiver for the admin.

http://www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/exemptions.asp



Why should any disabled driver get free access, do they take up less space
or create less pollution?

Some people resent others getting what they don't.

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No problem then. I just got the impression from your post that it was
giving you alot of grief and you would be entitled. But seeing as
you're pretty much OK then there's no point.


nah, it's fine now. But when it happened, my god. agony. Just about the
only time it was OK was ironically driving, because my legs are
stretched out in front. Work was tolerable, as I sit all day, but
walking, or even just standing was absolute agony.

Siatica is one of those things that you are never cured of though. A
twist in the wrong direction, and the siatic nerve is back where it
shouldn't be, and bingo, walking wounded again.
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Really. Now there is a chance. I have siatica. Have been diagnosed by
the doctor, and had heavy duty cocodomol to help it, and physio when it
was particularly bad.

You've got no problem then. Also pop in a claim to the Disability
Living Allowance people in Preston.



You are joking I hope Conor.
While you might be right that I could claim, It hasn't disabled me
enough that I would feel right doing it.

In that case, you're a better person than an _awful_ lot of Blue Badge
holders out there.

On a sort of related issue - my wife is now too pregnant to get out of
normal parking spaces - I've got to stop, let her out, and then move in.

We went shopping last week, and it was a bit drizzly. Bearing in mind her
difficulties, we thought we'd try the Parent & Baby slots. None left
unsurprisingly. Of the 10 or so they had, only _one_ was obviously a car
with baby, having a car seat in it (not that that means much). The rest had
no sign of any baby occupancy.

I then took a look at the disabled slots. Another ~10 of those, but the
_total_ shock was that they were 80% full of blue badge holders! The not
total shock : The 2 that weren't were 4x4s.

Pete.

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No problem then. I just got the impression from your post that it was
giving you alot of grief and you would be entitled. But seeing as
you're pretty much OK then there's no point.


nah, it's fine now. But when it happened, my god. agony. Just about the
only time it was OK was ironically driving, because my legs are
stretched out in front. Work was tolerable, as I sit all day, but
walking, or even just standing was absolute agony.

Pretty much the way I spent most of 2002-2003.

--
Conor

A high I.Q is like a Jeep. You still get stuck, just further from help.

Pete Smith ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

On a sort of related issue - my wife is now too pregnant to get out of
normal parking spaces - I've got to stop, let her out, and then move
in.

We went shopping last week, and it was a bit drizzly. Bearing in mind
her difficulties, we thought we'd try the Parent & Baby slots. None
left unsurprisingly. Of the 10 or so they had, only _one_ was obviously
a car with baby, having a car seat in it (not that that means much).
The rest had no sign of any baby occupancy.

Assuming you'd parked there, would your car have had any visible sign of
your wife being pregnant?

"Gareth A." wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:21:33 +0000, Silk wrote:

Chris wrote:

Cast_Iron wrote:

Disabled drivers can get a pass


I'd give my right arm for one of those.


No need. They'll accept a bit of a bad back.

If you're an OAP they hand them out no questions asked.


Only if the OAP is physically disabled.

Following up to MeatballTurbo

Siatica is one of those things that you are never cured of though. A
twist in the wrong direction, and the siatic nerve is back where it
shouldn't be, and bingo, walking wounded again.

I would assume an osteopath would be handy when it goes wrong?
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Really. Now there is a chance. I have siatica. Have been
diagnosed by the doctor, and had heavy duty cocodomol to help it,
and physio when it was particularly bad.

You've got no problem then. Also pop in a claim to the Disability
Living Allowance people in Preston.

It's extremely hard to get DLA. It's daunting to even start tackling
the forms.

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Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

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Your and you're are different words!

"Purditer" wrote in
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"Mark Fry" wrote in message
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"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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Disabled drivers can get a pass which allows free access to the toll
road
for three years. It costs a fiver for the admin.

http://www.m6toll.co.uk/pricing/exemptions.asp



Why should any disabled driver get free access, do they take up less
space
or create less pollution?

Some people resent others getting what they don't.



I don't begrudge anyone getting something that I can't, both of my parents
are registered disabled, but I don't understand the logic of it. How does a
disable person cause either less pollution or less congestion?

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
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"Gareth A." wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:21:33 +0000, Silk wrote:

Chris wrote:

Cast_Iron wrote:

Disabled drivers can get a pass


I'd give my right arm for one of those.


No need. They'll accept a bit of a bad back.

If you're an OAP they hand them out no questions asked.


Only if the OAP is physically disabled.



But why should that be the case? As I said in my initial post, I can't make
sense of the logic of disabled drivers free, everyone else pay.......