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Nut, this post is *brilliant.* Thank you.
I hope you'll send it in to this week's Virginia blog carnival. Lots of other Virginians need to read it, too.
Thank you again.
Where is this Virginia blog carnival being hosted? I did not know it even existed!
The submissions form is here:
http://www.conservativecat.com/F...arnivals.htm?
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Mmmm. Need to be careful about being judgemental about the window-stickers. I had one for a while when my leg and arm were broken in a car accident. It was a temporary difficulty and one that I gladly gave up as soon as I wasn't all en-casted.
But I also have had severe asthma - luckily I finally got into a situation where my asthma has improved - and while I could have gotten a sticker for that, I didn't. But walking any distance was exhausting and could often trigger a bad asthma attack. And honestly, I got very resentful of people telling me that if walking was such a bother that I needed to park closer, I shouldn't go to the mall. Oh, really? Because I can't breathe, I shouldn't be allowed to shop? Excuse me?
Difficulties come in many different flavors, and some may not be as obvious as others... also the sticker is good for - in my situation - where it's temporary, or if more than one person drives a vehicle. My friend's father, who had polio as a child, has a sticker, which is only used if he's in the car, and not when it is his wife or his daughter.
Hey, I'm sure when you got out of the car while all en-casted, that proved to the world you had a good reason for having one of them there window stickers.
The asthma not so much but didn't the wheezing ever give you away? If it was as bad as you said, then that's exactly what you should have been doing by the time you got to the door.
I'm mostly referring to the people that use the stickers even when whomever it's to be used for is not there with them. I had an ex-bf who used to do it all the time and I'd get on his case about it. Even then, his gma didn't need it but had one anyway.
The stickers themselves I don't have a problem with, it's the people who abuse them. I've known several people who have used them for no good reason really. One lady whom I used to work with said her husband needed one because he had a brain tumor. I was like, does it impede his ability to walk at all? It gave him seizures, but that didn't have anything to do with walking necessarily.
These examples might be the 1% out of the many who sincerely need it, and if that is the case, I'll shut my mouth. But when you're trying to go to a Wal-Mart with a gma in a motorized wheelchair because she's had a stroke and can't push herself and your aunt who has advanced MS, it gets frustrating real fast when, out of 50 spots, there isn't a damned van in any marked Van Accessible (or any at all).
So we ended up loading/unloading right there in front of Wally World and people got pissed. I told some that next time, don't park in the Van Accessible spots, then, if you don't gotta Van. This was in upstate NY and heh, I got to prove that southerners aren't always polite.
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