My kid's autistic. That qualifies me to get a decal.

However, my kid can walk just fine...as can I. I therefore do NOT have a decal that I otherwsie qualify for. The way I see it, the decal wasn't made for people like me.

My dad's diabetic. He has the same sentiment that I have: "I can walk just fine. I don't need to take the parking spot of someone who really needs it."
Jonathan | Homepage | 12.21.06 - 10:33 am | #

Amen Butch!..a pet peeve of mine too..and heck if we walk a bit more maybe we could even shed a pound or 2 eh?..lol :)
Angel | Homepage | 12.20.06 - 12:39 am | #

p.s. To answer your question, no we NEVER park in the handicapped places, ever. I know that there are people who REALLY NEED those spaces and we would never park there.
Debbie | Homepage | 12.19.06 - 10:05 am | #

My hubby will love this one. He's always saying he should park in the handi-CRAPPED parking space and limp inside, ha. He's never done it. People get those things when they really don't need them, then let family members who are not handicapped us the car and park in the designated spaces. Now a doctor has to issue the tags, but some will do it no matter what.
Debbie | Homepage | 12.19.06 - 9:57 am | #

A family member who shall go unnamed was able to legally obtain a permit. And then the legal reason for her having it, died. Sad yes. Give her a right to continue to park in handicap zones? No freaking way.

There is nothing (and never was) wrong with her, nothing to prevent her from walking, running, skipping, or hopping from a farther distance... and yet she refuses to not use the permit.

I can't stand it, and pick fights with her about it.

Really, the only disablity some of these people with permits have is laziness- and that's not so much a disablitiy as it is a personality flaw.
Lilo | 12.18.06 - 9:43 pm | #

Thanks Fred,

You're right! Folks with diabetes NEED to walk if they are capable.

My mom died of complications caused by diabetes...God rest her soul. She too, had to give herself insulin shots everyday.

I miss her. Everyday.
butch | Homepage | 12.18.06 - 8:34 pm | #

PS, I too have diabetes, insulin dependent, and I don't have a handicap sticker, I walk, as much and as often as I can...
TexasFred | Homepage | 12.18.06 - 8:15 pm | #

Great post Butch, I have had issues with people taking handicap spots when they weren't handicap themselves, and more than once have seen it happen, and I have publicly challenged the twits, and made em look so small, they moved the car, and in one case actually left the area...

This is a topic that NEEDS to be addressed often..
TexasFred | Homepage | 12.18.06 - 8:13 pm | #

I'm convinced that folks who park in handicapped parking w/o a physical cause (apart from the inconvenience of walking a teensy bit) are probably qualified to do so ion the basis of their mental or moral handicap... or both.

But then, on the one hand, they need the help that a FULL lobotomy (rahter than the partical one they've already given themselves) would effect or the benefit (to mankind) of being placed into a very small barrel and fed through the bunghole until they can actually qualify on physical grounds.

It'd work for me. (My wife _could_ get a handicap sticker, but prefers to walk instead, no matter how difficult it can be at times. Dumbasses who take handicapped parking when neither they nor their passengers have legitimate need for it deserve public scorn and ridicule at the very least.)
David | Homepage | 12.18.06 - 7:23 pm | #

Diabetes huh? Maybe I should apply!

Yeah, I seen some underserving folks using them too.
Mushy | Homepage | 12.18.06 - 6:49 pm | #