Originally Posted by Erin524

I don't have pictures, but I went to Walgreens yesterday to help my mom get a sympathy card for her sister (my uncle died last week). When I pulled up, all the handicap spots were full. Only two had placards, and one of those placards looked like it had been altered. The spot where the date should have been printed looked like it had been cut, or chewed on. And the registration number on it was mysteriously damaged too.

There are five handicap spots. Two of them are in positions in front of the door, where they don't have signs on a pole in front of the space. But the entire area has yellow paint painted on the curb, and even has the wheelchair "art" painted in the spaces. Almost every time I've been to that store the last couple of weeks, there's been some schmuck with no placard parked in those two spots.

I confronted one of them about a week ago. Asked them if they forgot their placard. That...person...told me that they were going to be just a "few" minutes, and that there's not that many handicap people in the world that would need it. (said to me, standing there with a walker, trying to keep from committing assault by running her over with said walker)

She told me only people with wheelchairs used the handicap spots, and she never sees any people with wheelchairs, so she thought it would be ok for her "few" minutes. (she was in there for 20 or more because I was in there for at least 20mins myself)

When I was using one of the local gyms down the street from us, when I first started using my AFO, and a cane. I'd park in the handicap spot (with my official placard), but there'd usually be some schmuck parked in the wheelchair access spaces. Complained to the management. They didn't think it was a problem because "handicap people don't exercise". Ummm...what?

I used to take pictures of the motorcycles and motor scooters that would park in the wheelchair access spots, and tweet the pictures to the twitter account of the gym company.

What irritates me right now down at the cardiac center where my dad and I go to use their special gym, are the doctors that park in the fire lane in front of the building. Blocking the wheelchair ramps. Last week, the ramp was blocked by a car when we went in. Came back out an hour and a half later. Car was still there, but the doctor that owns the car came out right after we schlepped our way down the high curb. Guy was wearing his scrubs, and had his hospital i.d. clipped to his official doctor coat. Made me mad enough that I would have wanted to make that guy need a doctor. Good thing the MS keeps me from acting on the homicidal urge to run them down with the walker. I don't want to get blood on my wheels.