I recently counted 12 in a nearby Home Depot parking lot: how many people in wheelchairs have you ever seen pushing sheets of drywall out to their cars? Sheesh ...
There are many more things than drywall for sale at the Home Despot ... and some of them are purchased by handicapped folks, for later installation by healthy relatives and friends.
Yes, handicapped folks can have relatives and friends.
Home depot is pretty bad about the excessive number of spots. Walmart’s are always full to the brim.
My parish is required to have 24 handicapped spots. That is almost the entire front parking lot. We joke that unless you get to mass an hour before it starts, you’re parking in the back forty!
Honestly, it doesn’t bother me when they are used but it irks me when 15 of those spaces are open and I’m trudging through the snow with my girls in church shoes at 10 below. Now I just drop them off at the door and deal with the snow myself.
“Simply put, there are too damned many handicapped spots in most parking lots anyway”
Well, there’s something to that. The building I work in has about 20 of them, of which I have probably ever seen maybe 2 in use at one time. And it’s stupid, because some of them are way around the side of the building, far from the doors, and those are good spots that those of us who arive early and don’t have AC in our cars would like to use, since they’re in the shade of the building in the afternoon.