You'd go to a crowded supermarket and they'd have 1 parking spot for handicapped.
A couple of years later, there were 8 spots where there used to be one or two...
Fast forward to present day.
Went to a shopping center a week or so ago, and I kid you not, every single parking bay in front of that shopping center, were restricted for handicap parking only.
There had to be 30 or so parking bays for handicapped, with only one or two being occupied.
And as usual, the rest of the parking lot had few if any parking available for normal parking.
I find this absurd...
Next time your in a parking lot, watch those that actually use the handicap spot. 99 percent of the time, they won't be in wheel chairs, and not even using a cane....They simply exit their vehicles, and walk in a normal manner, into the store.
It's laughable.
I frequently see people getting out of their Corvette or [insert fancy sports car here], bearing a handicapped placard, and walking into the grocery store. They seem to walk just fine to me. This particularly irritates me because my 72 year old father, with a hip replacement and two knee replacements, hobbles into the store from a regular parking space. He refuses to get a handicapped placard since he feels they are for the truly handicapped.