Fast forward to yesterday and my Blue Badge arrived in the post (hurrah!). On the back of the plastic thing you hold it in it says "Disabled Person's Parking Disc" which is.... a label. Do I think I'm a disabled person? No. Does Croydon Council think I am? Yes. Am I bothered by this? A little, but then I guess it's also learning to accept labels - and maybe I'm not because I don't think of myself as disabled - but actually I am.
Anyway, because I have a blue badge now I used it in the school car park last night in the disabled spot. Mainly so I had done it once and it wouldn't be "a thing" next time. It wasn't a "thing" last night really, so I guess that means we're all good?
I'm still too scared to try to use it on double yellows, mind.
