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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was an educational thread for me.  I, too, have sometimes wondered whether someone was abusing their handicapped tag.  (Ok, I had a roommate who sprained his ankle once and used the tag years later-- so it happens.)  It's not a thought I was proud of, and generally I told myself "you don't know the whole story."  But I still wondered.  So it is useful to me to have insight into the whole story.[/quote]These tags are temporary and expire in most cases, how could she use it for years?[/quote]

I don't know.  I was driving and she offered to let me use her hang tag so we could find a parking place.  My first response was that I was afraid of getting a towed.  Only after she assured me that she did it all the time, did I mumble something about not feeling right about it.  It felt bad because I think she was kind of trying to impress me.  Maybe she was lying to me.  Maybe I'm lying to you.

People lie all the time, and like the OP, it's natural to be suspicious.  Nevertheless, if we don't give people the benefit of the doubt, things get ugly real fast.  OP's post is pretty obnoxious, but I'd like to think it came from a good place-- a concern that someone in a wheelchair (for instance) will not have a space available when they need it?.  And to the degree that her post was marred by gratuitous, self-righteous outrage, why respond with more of the same?

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