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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't read the whole thread but I get where OP is coming from... because I often see this and then watch as said person will walk all around a shopping mall, Walmart, Grocery Store, etc with no problems. Yet somehow the walk from the parking lot into the store where they will then proceed to walk around for hours is too much.[/quote]

I can respond to this.  My husband has a heart condition that will act up sometimes.  When it acts up, he has to sit down ASAP or he will pass out.  He has a handicap sticker because unlike the mall or walmart or a shopping place, he can't just sit down in the middle of a parking lot.  He'll walk around the store, but you bet your bottom dollar that he will scan the store and as he's walking, he can tell you where every single chair, or place to sit is located around him. He is always on the lookout for that place "just in case" and you'll even see him sometimes waiting in the main aisle of the store while I run down the aisle to get that item.  To you, it looks like he's just leaning on the cart waiting for his wife to run down the aisle and get something, but to him, it's a problem to make it down there sometimes.

And he'll not let you know because he's embarrassed by his condition (it took me years to get him to get the handicap sticker) and wants to appear "normal."  Also, his walking around the store has become a MAJOR accomplishment and he wants to continue walking while he can.  So, you are a bitch for looking at him wondering how he can walk down the aisles of a store, yet "somehow the walk from the parking lot to the store is too much."  He has nothign to prove to you![/quote]

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