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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really can't believe the number of threads on here about handicapped parking.  [b]Why is this the hill that people want to die on?[/b]

I have a handicapped parking tag.  IT'S REALLY NOT THAT GREAT.  It doesn't make my life bliss and perfection.  I'm not shooting rainbows out of my ass constantly because of it.  What the hell is the big deal?[/quote]

Because you get to park close to the store, and they have to park further away. And if that's not a big deal, I don't know what is!

(I'm not being sincere. I'm sorry, PP.)[/quote]

In my random anecdotal experience, I've noted that the biggest whiners about handicapped parking abuse are overweight people who really could use the exercise but are too lazy to walk an extra 15 feet complaining about otherwise healthy looking people who may or may not be handicapped.

When my 88 year old father comes to visit, he brings his placard.  I drop him off at the curb and park the car...in the handicapped spot.  Why?  Because he insists when coming out that he wants to walk back to the car and parking farther back may mean that I either have to carry him or he has to stop midway and sit on someone's bumper to catch his breath to get in.  So, yes, I'm a healthy able bodied person that usually parks further back and walks, but a handful of times the one week I'm visiting with him or he's visiting with me, I will "abuse" the handicapped parking space.  Get over it.

I also know a couple of people with Crohn's disease who have good days and bad days.  And unfortunately a bad day can happen at anytime.  So they could be perfectly fine going into a restaurant or store and then be hit with an "episode" and it could be excruciating just to get back to their car in the handicapped spot, and near impossible to get back to a sport anywhere else in the parking lot.

So I really think it's churlish for able-bodied people to be policing the use of handicapped spots unless it is your job to do so.[/quote]

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