Can Those with an Invisible Illness Park in the Blue Spots without Others Seeing Red?

Christian News Wire ^ | August 20, 2007 | Lisa Copen

[ikka]

Carry a cane and use it every time.

[Larry Lucido]

Yeah, well I got kicked out of a Thailand NAACP dinner. I was casual and it was a black Thai affair.

[Politicalmom]

Grocery stores and Walmarts HAVE motorized carts for shoppers.

[martin_fierro]

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week

[longtermmemmory]

HIPPA does not allow that.

Keep in mind you don’t have to be driving. I know people with a disable or mobility difficult family member and they use the tag when transporthing that person.

I think most of these are busy bodies.

How crippled does a person have to be to pass the holier than thou police?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I found it ironic recently that a doctors complex I visited had many empty handicapped spaces but at a golf course I visited the same week they were all filled. No accusations, just an observation.

[martin_fierro]

Oh. For shame!!

[camle]

having been a diabetic for almost 40 years, I do not tell them how to deal with their issue. And they usually hcarry one because that’s what it usually takes.

good point tho...

[camle]

" you are “playing into stereotypes” by daring to assume that these poor football players do not deserve their handicapped sticker. "

and just how do you know they were football players? sarcasm aside, don't football players get injured?

[camle]

inre #70.

good job! thanx! we need more like you.

[Poser]

Quit whining and park where you want. This whole thing is just so stupid. If you need help, I have a long list of two-word responses you can use when needed.

When somebody questions your use of a handicap spot, thank them for caring. There are way too many people abusing those spaces.

[Publius6961]

The twelve invisibly handicapped insist that the 22,000,000 handicapped spaces in California be reserved in case they ever need to use one...

That reminds me: "handicapped" ramps at intersections cost roughtly $12,000-$15,000 each. California has been busily ripping up perfectly good sidewalk for 30+ years at the cost of $billions. I can honestly say I do not recall ever seeing a single instance of a wheelchair using such ramps.

On the other hand, I have seen 49,672 skateboarders terrorizing pedestrian and traffic while using them.

Just saying.

[camle]

"I agree with you. There are lots of forms of disabilites. To get a HC sticker or placard, a patient needs to be medically qualified. Unfortunately, too many of us are Sunday morning quarterback ‘doctors’ who can instantly diagnose another human being within the confines of a parking garage. My thought is- if you are that great of a clinician, set up an office and start seeing patients- otherwise show some tolerance for others, and thank God you don’t walk in a disabled person shoes. "

very well put. thanx!

[toddlintown]

“I’m sorry, but the majority of these problems ironically come from the lack of exercise and poor eating habits.”

Are you a doctor, or just play one on FR? I have osteoarthritis and two hip replacements, I’m 6’2” and weight 220. To see me is to think everything’s fine under the hood.

In actuality, I have two 12” scars, one on each upper thigh for my two hip replacements. I was bone-on-bone before I had the surgeries, one at age 50, the other three years later...and then someone like you comes along with your “medical” opinion.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, well I got kicked out of a Thailand NAACP dinner. I was casual and it was a black Thai affair.

You must have been fit to be Thai'ed!

Me? I would have said Phuket.

[Calvin Locke]

The worse thing is the mandating. Say you have a parking lot that has X number of spaces. The local Stalinists decree that Y number must be “blue”. Your company goes through some hard times (a LSM company, perhaps?), and half the employees are gone. The lot doesn’t shrink. Nor does the number of set aside spaces. The majority of the “survivors” still have to hoof it through both sunny and inclement weather.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I've got pretty bad scoliosis, and as a result once in a while my back bothers me something severely (usually on Monday mornings after I've spent the weekend doing yardwork).

Ok.

[toddlintown]

“I don’t give a crap who parks in the blue spots, I don’t care if they “deserve” to or not.

Why are there so many busy bodies in our country?”

Amen. Looks like a good load of these “busy bodies” are on this thread with their expert “medical” opinions.

You’re right.

[Between the Lines]

if you're healthy enough to use a hiking trail, you're healthy enough to walk a few more feet through the parking lot.

You may not know it but they do make off road wheel chairs capable of handling a pretty rugged trail. The only reason I can see for handicapped parking at trail heads is to provide a wide enough parking space to get the person and chair out of the vehicle. Off road wheel chairs are usually much larger than what you would normally see being used for everyday purposes.

[toddlintown]

“Is 20 pound for the weight like 30 pounds if a guy lifts?”

Soon to be an “FR Classic.”