Truett Collins
Elio Addict
I have a disabled parking permit; probably get a disabled plate for mine (yes, they do have them).
If a parking place is close to where I'm going, I'll use it, if not (and I'm having a bad day) I use the handicapped stalls.
If I have to ride a ferry when I go up to Seattle, bikes always get to go up front; you bet I'll be using bike status then.
It just really gets to me when I see perfectly healthy people park in a handicapped stall, get out and run into the place of business.
I sat in JC Penny's lot one year waiting for a friend and I wish I had a video camera; they number of people that abuse the permits is disgusting.
One had made their own (it looked that tacky) but had so much other crap hanging from the mirror you could barely see it.
Got to be careful with accusations, my daughter who has lupus can look fine getting out of the car, but by the time she walks into the store and gets a few things can barely make it back to the car, if it was not in the handicapped parking would not be able to at all. My wife looks fine getting out of the car but if she walks by someone with too much perfume/after shave on, if they are using cleaners in the store or if she runs into one of the thousands of different things that trigger her breathing attacks can many times not even make it to the handicapped parking and has to be helped back to her car.