RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
October 9, 2016 at 2:42 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2016 at 2:46 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 9, 2016 at 2:15 am)KevinM1 Wrote: That kind of shit pisses me right off.
I almost got into a pissing match at Walmart because of something like that. SUV parked in one of the van accessible spaces. The vehicle has a temporary placard. The family comes out of the store. No one has anything noticeably wrong with them. No wheelchairs, canes, oxygen, noticeable difficulty walking, nothing. My mom and I make a couple comments we thought were under our breath, but the wife heard us.
"Not all disabilities are visible!"
Well, duh. But if your disability doesn't affect your movement (apparently it was the husband and he was easily putting bags in the back of the SUV), then don't fucking take the spaces for people like me, who need the van accessible spaces so we can enter/exit our vehicles safely without playing in traffic. You can park a couple spaces down without it being a hassle. I can't.
I have a bum hip, and when not at work I use a cane. I refuse to get a placard for this sort of reason, though I easily could. I can good and goddamned well walk thirty or forty more feet, because I know that the van-spaces are there for a reason.
Makes me want to take my cane to assholes like this.