seems like everybody has a story about seeing some “healthy” person using the handicapped spaces. I say “rubbish!”
Unless you’re a doctor, you don’t know. I look fine much of the time, yet my condition is virtually incurable, and when it flares up, it FLARES up.
But the only time I have ever been acosted sicne 1978-ish when I got the first permit, was when I had the motorcycle. The acuser apparently was ignorant of the fact that handicapped people can and often do ride motorcycles.
But my real beef is that people expect disabled folk to be poor and destitute. I get more bad looks parking my 07 GT Mustang, than ever because I customized it, and everybody knows that handicapped people have to be poor, needy, onthe dole, adn incapable of succeeding in the world...
Amen.
I sympathize. My late boyfriend had Parkinson’s. He looked hale and hearty, but it was very difficult for him to walk. He got lots of nasty looks. (Since he had the ruddy complexion, tendency to perspire and awkward gait that often go with Parkinsonism, he was sometimes taken for a drunk.) People need to be a little more tolerant — don’t assume you can judge by first appearances.
Not for motorcycles-riding primadonnas.
The opportunists, as always, rushed in to fill the void.
Just saying.
I drive a Mercedes and get the same looks and my car is 10 years old.
oh that’s funny. I can imagine the looks you got when you climbed off your bike. Where’d you hang the tag? ;-)