funny or not funny? I can't decide.

ridesbuttons · August 2012

An actual municipality sign:

grbnik · August 2012

Yes, vote for funny. The only thing that I still don't like, coming from a disability advocacy employment background, is the word handicap. My DH just says I am battling semantics, but it is just a trigger for me (don't care for it). But, I love the message this one sends. My mother was diagnosed with MS when I was 5 and declined rapidly, so we had to use stalls when we went out with her. I have heard my friends (who don't have physical or cognitive impairments) using these and it makes my blood boil. So, if this kind of message sticks out- I say we use em! It's kinda like what the churches are doing now with their snappy sayings on the church marquees. Love it!

malcivar · August 2012

Ha! I love it. I really hate it when I see perfectly able-bodied people park in the handicapped spot. It's not bigger so you'll have more room just because. It's bigger so a person with a chair or walker or whatever apparatus can get in and out of their car - unless you'd like their chair to scratch the crap out of your car in a regular spot.

Funny story - I'm usually respectful of the handicapped stall in ladies room but recently I was out with the newborn with the car seat stroller and no matter what I did - even taking the car seat out of the frame, there was still not enough room in a regular stall and just as I was about to go into the handicapped stall, I see a woman in a wheelchair so I stopped and stepped aside so she could have it. She said 'no, you first'. I said 'no it's ok, it's for you' and she said 'what? you've got wheels too - at least today you do' :-)

mommytoconnor · August 2012

I think funny. However, keep in mind that you can't always see a persons limitations. For example, I have a family member who has severe breathing problems and can't walk for more than 50 feet without stopping. Now to look at her, you would think she was ok, but she actually has a physical limitation but you can't see it. So I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, that even if they look able bodied, they may not be. You would hope that these able bodied people wouldn't do something like that, it's really sad that they do.

MaxandRuby · August 2012

Personally I think it is funny because everyone knows (even if not an actual person) that there are people in this world that think much to highly of themselves and park in this spot when they should not - nor do their cars display a handicap license plate or hanging tag.

As for the comments about able bodied people, this bothers me but let me explain. I have a handicap placard for my car. This is for my son and yes we only use it if he is in the car with us. The thought of parking in a spot, just because I could, makes me very uneasy and guilty. Now, while I do utilize handicap parking when I have DS2 with me, I always wonder if people are judging me because I am able bodied (yes I understand that the handicap placard is for any person in your car). I always wonder if people wonder why I am carrying DS2 (he turns 3 in October) - in general. I also wonder if people think negative thoughts about me when I pull out the placard to hang up once I park or take it down before I pull out of the spot. You see, I know a lot of people just keep it hanging from their rearview mirror but mine flat out says to not have it hanging while driving - so I don't. But I wonder if people think I'm simply "using" it because I'm lazy. And quite frankly, I am kind of glad his walker is typically in the back of my car so when I have to open up the back, and I'm in a handicap spot, that people know I'm not just being lazy.

And yes, I should not worry so much about what people thing, but I do. I put way too much damn energy into these thought patterns.

lite-bright · August 2012

I think if you're rude and douchy enough to park in a handicap spot without needing it, you deserve to be called out on it very bluntly. Thumbs up from me!

realisticdreams · August 2012

mommytoconnor:
I think funny. However, keep in mind that you can't always see a persons limitations. For example, I have a family member who has severe breathing problems and can't walk for more than 50 feet without stopping. Now to look at her, you would think she was ok, but she actually has a physical limitation but you can't see it. So I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, that even if they look able bodied, they may not be. You would hope that these able bodied people wouldn't do something like that, it's really sad that they do.

This.

I am only 26, and while P could have her own pass, I have one and have had one for a number of years because of my heart condition. There are times where I can't make it from the car to the entrance of a store.

That being said, you would not BELIEVE the looks I get. And if there are any spots close I do not use a handicap. If I'm lugging both of the girls around by myself, it for sure exacerbates my breathing issue. My worst fear is that i'm going to pass out in public by myself with both of them.

Just last month a lady actually talked about me in front of me and the girls on the phone while she was standing in the parking lot, "omg you won't believe this girl who obviously has nothing wrong with her in a handicap spot."

SHE WAS WEARING SCRUBS.

So anyways, point being. I can't breathe, at one point my cardiologist said by 35 I would need a transplant. And the fact that I get hateful looks and remarks by random people only boils my skin more.

People need to remember just because you don't have a wheelchair does not mean that you are undeserving of a close spot.

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