I HAVE never written to a newspaper before but I was absolutely astonished to read Tracie Selbie's letter from last week moaning about disabled people parking in parent and toddler parking spaces. I have never heard such selfish and patronising views in my life.

May I firstly say that I am a mother as well, but I have never objected to seeing a blue badge holder using a parent toddler parking space. She assumes that all disabled people are elderly with her back in the days when your children were young' statement.

This is not always the case. Has she ever stopped to think that years ago mothers didn't have the luxury of a car to go shopping in, they used to walk with their children, which was considerably more difficult than it is today.

We haven't had parent toddler parking spaces all that long, perhaps a decade.

What did people do before we had them? They used to park their cars more carefully and get their kids out without moaning about it!

It is the fault of supermarkets pandering to the minority like her that have made people so selfish. All of the parking spaces in the multi-storey at Merry Hill are plenty big enough and here's an idea - at Sainsbury's Withymoor why don't you park right round the back where, unless you go on a Saturday, there is always plenty of space.

Perhaps you would object to walking so far to the entrance!

Disabled people need to park where they do because they are unable to walk as far as others. They do not have a choice being disabled.

I hope that when her children are older she will realise how she has made a mountain out of a molehill and that her problem of parking compared to the problems of less able people are pathetic.

If there are no disabled parking spaces left then they should be able to use any space that allows them to use wheelchairs, walking frames etc.. I hope for her sake that she never has to experience being disabled or infirm herself.

W Lashford Amblecote