A disabled woman has branded someone who left a note on her car, wrongly accusing her of not being eligible to hold a blue badge, as a “narrow-minded ignorant person”.
Helen, who suffers from a bad back and has several spinal surgeries along with nerve damage in her legs, said she was left a note on her car claiming her blue badge number was being reported.
The makeshift note scrawled in block capitals was discovered by Helen on Sunday, February, saying: “Your BB has been taken and reported to the ticket office.”
However, Helen has insisted she does qualify to receive a blue badge for her car.
Helen, from Whitfield, Greater Manchester, said: “Just because I’m young and not in wheelchair doesn’t mean I’m not entitled to a blue badge.”
On Sunday, she decided to go for a quick stroll in the park to help manage her back, Manchester Evening News reports.
“They obviously saw me, saw that I’m in my 40s, walking away.
“And I just thought they’ve got no idea what my circumstances are.”
Helen recently lost a friend to cancer and she had a blue badge too.
“What if I had been her, and I was here to take my last walk ever, and I came back to this message? How rude can some people be.”
This isn’t the first time Helen has been confronted about her blue badge.
She says that whenever she goes to Tesco she gets people staring at her - and that she confronts people when they do.”And I just thought they’ve got no idea what my circumstances are.”
Helen recently lost a friend to cancer and she had a blue badge too.
“What if I had been her, and I was here to take my last walk ever, and I came back to this message? How rude can some people be.”
This isn’t the first time Helen has been confronted about her blue badge.
She says that whenever she goes to Tesco she gets people staring at her - and that she confronts people when they do.
“Someone once said to me ‘are you travelling around with a dead relative’s blue badge’,” she said.
Helen used to have a blue badge for her son too, who has autism.
She recalls a time when her son was six or seven and a man with a stick called her a ‘f***ing b**ch’.
Helen says she reacted by shoving her blue badge in his face and saying ‘are you happy now’.
She said in other circumstances she would confront people by saying things like ‘do you want to see the scars down my back’.
There was no way for Helen to respond to the person who left this note at Heaton Park.
But, Helen says she knows whoever left the note has ‘absolutely no life’.
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