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Originally Posted by jimbo
I've got one of those handicap placards for my mirror too. Sometimes I'm in my wheelchair and sometimes I'm using my quad cane, slowly with the help of my wife, walk when I can for short distances.
If there's a parking spot just as close I have my wife not take the handicap spot so someone who needs it more than I can have it.
It really aggravates me to see someone unthinkingly take that spot when they clearly don't need it.
But then again, it doesn't exclude integrity!
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I held off on getting one of the cards for a long time because I always thought that I would feel really bad if I took the space and then some little old lady broke a hip or something because she had to park farther away. But I have one now because with the wheelchair and now with my walker, I need the extra space to get in and out of the car (not to mention just needing to be closer). But then I know that if I am able to get to the point where I don't think I need it, I just won't use it.
Not everyone is like that though. I yelled at my mother a number of times when she tried to use her uncle's placard when she was with me. She always said that she could get one herself if she wanted to and my reply was always if you need one then get one but don't use someone else's. To this day she does not have her own. Does she have a hard time walking? Sometimes...so I'm sure she COULD get one...but I just do not have any tolerance for people who use the cards fraudulently (and that was BEFORE I had RSD).