>> People parking in Handicapped spots that walk completely fine and then pull down the placard as they drive away.<<
How could you possibly know if they were handicapped or not? I had a heart attack a few years back and post-op I could walk just fine — for about 50 feet. Then my heart would start pounding and my breath became shallow. I needed to park close just to conduct my day to day business. When I recovered I discarded the placard.
There are a lot of handicaps you can’t see. Just because someone appears OK to you doesn’t mean he/she is OK.
Got judgementalism a little?
Such folk would do well to acquaint themselves with the facts. Then such folk spend more time thanking God that they do not qualify for the use of such spaces and less time whining and bitching about people who do.
Not all disabilities are visible to the casual observer, true. However there is wide spread abuse of the handicapped tag program.
I’ve seen too many people park in the handicapped spots and then go running in to the store to believe otherwise.
>> People parking in Handicapped spots that walk completely fine and then pull down the placard as they drive away.<<
:-)
Reminds me of a comedy routine: “So, I see this guy park in a handicapped spot and he was perfectly fine, so I beat him up. Then when his mom got out of the other side of the car, I beat her up with her crutches.
>>When I recovered I discarded the placard.<<
You’re a better man than me. ;-)
I know where you are coming from. I smashed my foot back in January. The doctor never actually told me how many bones I broke-I don't think he even knows for sure. Anyway, I have a temporary handicap card and believe me, I use it, because walking more than a few dozen feet is quite a trial for me even now. The problem is, since I was permitted to discard the walking boot I look perfectly healthy. I don't limp precisely because I am working hard not to: at my age a limp can become permanent. So far I haven't been confronted or keyed, but it crosses my mind.
some are just plain lazy. i have a lady at work that has handicap plates, but everyday she goes for a 15-20 minute walk at break times.
if she can walk that far on a regular basis, she shouldn’t need to park 20’ from teh door.
there’s also a lot of people that have that placard for a disabled family member. i can understand having it, but they shouldn’t take advantage of it when they’re alone.
I am sorry to hear this, but when I told my findings the other day two of my parents friends admitted to abusing the handicap placard. Someone in their family is handicapped so everyone in the family uses (abuses) it.
BTW, I have a neurological disorder and I was told that I can get a handicapped license plate but screw that, I refuse to put a label on myself unless I have to use a walker or wheel chair. Judgmental? If I am right 99 out of 100 times I will apologize for that one time I am wrong other than that I refuse to be PC and let other rude, lazy people get away with this because of your PC BS attitude!
BTW, might I add, A lot of these people are simply over weight, lazy and are very easy to spot as fakes.I don’t need to get deeper into how i come to this conclusion but it is obvious.
The placard has written on it not to drive with it hanging.
My biggest complaint about handicapped stalls is summed up in two things:
1. There are tons of them and they are usually ALL empty.
2. They are the only open spaces in the entire parking lot.
I would also like them to raise the bar regarding who should get them. If someone uses a scooter they don’t need one. It just saves them battery life. I consider them pretty much a scam and would like to see them eliminated. We somehow survived before them. We could again.
The other day, I noticed a car with two teenage drivers pull into a handicap spot, put a placard on the the rear view mirror and literally run into the store. I don’t think it was being judgmental to believe these two were abusing the system.
I always took the placard down as I got in & drove away; it was very distracting & obstructive...and technically illegal...to have it dangling from the mirror while driving.
Most debilitating handicaps, temporary or permanent, are not casually visible.
BTW, some days my excruciating pain makes it hard to walk (Dystonia) but i don’t take the placard because those spots are designed for people with wheelchairs and walkers. There are people that need those spaces more than me... what say you? That should be the criteria, reserved for those that OBVIOUSLY need it.... stop think about what I am entitled to, but what someone that is much worse off deserves. BTW, I see war vets with one leg parking in spots where I usually park. It is a matter of “no shame” and “entitlement” any more.
Next time you see someone get out of their car in a Handicapped spot while talking on the cell phone and telling her caller to “talk to the hand”.... I am sure your “judgement” will side with mine.
When I was recovering from some back problems I was the same way. I could walk about 50 feet before I started having problems, which if I used the handicapped spot, usually meant I could reach the courtesy wheelchairs that most stores have. I started using a pair of canes to walk with. They didn’t help much with the walking part, but my truck didn’t get keyed as often!
One can't know and I wouldn't judge the person unless they jumped out of the car and hopped on a skateboard or something like that.
However, I do know of a scam that is common in my state. One spouse is disabled, get a disabled permit. That spouse later dies. The remaining spouse then continues to use the disabled permit for years and years.