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I get so upset at people who ignore the "No Parking - Fire Lane" painted along the sidewalks at the shopping center. Yesterday, some one parked there to go in to Starbucks! I almost said, "Doesn't the No Parking sign mean YOU?" Grrr!
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Our Mall has its own security That drives around all day, and they tow them.
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Ok, I park there to let off my elderly parents ....but....don't stay there...I go find a parking place after they get out.
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Some people think the rules only apply to other people!!!
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Just think of it this way---you park a little farther away and all that walking will make you healthier than the guy not following the rules. (who will probably have a heart attack tomorrow)
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There will always be those people who think the rules don't apply to them because "I'm just going in for a second." Just keep smiling and remember Karma will get them in the end. They'll also be the ones stuck in a blizzard for three days because the weather warnings "didn't apply to them " either.
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Originally Posted by quiltmom04
I get so upset at people who ignore the "No Parking - Fire Lane" painted along the sidewalks at the shopping center. Yesterday, some one parked there to go in to Starbucks! I almost said, "Doesn't the No Parking sign mean YOU?" Grrr!
AND the Handicapped parking. I absolutely despise the healthy people who park there, with or without Grandpa's parking pass hung on the mirror. And then they get out and trot to the store. When I get angry they merely shrug and say that it was the only close parking space there!! I've pushed my late DH's wheelchair half a block in pounding rain to get to a doctor's office, and in the sun and wind when he wanted to go to a special store, while younger healthy people parked near by in the handicapped parking spaces. Once when I was chewing a young man out a meter reader came along and asked if it was HIS parking pass. And he got an expensive ticket while several older people and I stood and almost cheered. I think the ticket at that time was about $170 or so, YEAH!! |
go in and report to the mgr and they should call the mall cop!
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They get fined and towed here so I've heard. I don't park close so I have to walk farther. Every little step helps:)
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Originally Posted by Joan
Just think of it this way---you park a little farther away and all that walking will make you healthier than the guy not following the rules. (who will probably have a heart attack tomorrow)
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We were at Red Robin with friends the other day & a Sheriff's car stopped in back of our cars. One got out and went to the front to make sure we really do have handicapped tags. Gotta love parking enforcement!
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I'm handicap, but my roommate who drives me around isn't...and sometimes when he gets out of the car and comes around to help me, people say nasty things to him thinking he's just trying to get a free parking spot, but he is actually driving me around....he doesn't drive my car unless he's taking me someplace.
So, I know how it is...when a parking space is for a handicapped person, and they can't find an open spot, they do get angry. Luckily, when we can't find an open spot, he just drops me off at the front door and then goes and parks in a regular spot. |
Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Originally Posted by quiltmom04
I get so upset at people who ignore the "No Parking - Fire Lane" painted along the sidewalks at the shopping center. Yesterday, some one parked there to go in to Starbucks! I almost said, "Doesn't the No Parking sign mean YOU?" Grrr!
AND the Handicapped parking. I absolutely despise the healthy people who park there, with or without Grandpa's parking pass hung on the mirror. And then they get out and trot to the store. When I get angry they merely shrug and say that it was the only close parking space there!! I've pushed my late DH's wheelchair half a block in pounding rain to get to a doctor's office, and in the sun and wind when he wanted to go to a special store, while younger healthy people parked near by in the handicapped parking spaces. Once when I was chewing a young man out a meter reader came along and asked if it was HIS parking pass. And he got an expensive ticket while several older people and I stood and almost cheered. I think the ticket at that time was about $170 or so, YEAH!! |
Agree just not right the healthy using the plates for cheater parking, have taken others who could have benefited from closer parking!! So we park as close as can get with enough room to use aid, walker,chair etc.
As for me I'm one of those parkers who mostly park way out so less dings from the other inconsiderates, with the attitude of who cares if you slam their door into the next car. |
Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Originally Posted by quiltmom04
I get so upset at people who ignore the "No Parking - Fire Lane" painted along the sidewalks at the shopping center. Yesterday, some one parked there to go in to Starbucks! I almost said, "Doesn't the No Parking sign mean YOU?" Grrr!
AND the Handicapped parking. I absolutely despise the healthy people who park there, with or without Grandpa's parking pass hung on the mirror. And then they get out and trot to the store. When I get angry they merely shrug and say that it was the only close parking space there!! I've pushed my late DH's wheelchair half a block in pounding rain to get to a doctor's office, and in the sun and wind when he wanted to go to a special store, while younger healthy people parked near by in the handicapped parking spaces. Once when I was chewing a young man out a meter reader came along and asked if it was HIS parking pass. And he got an expensive ticket while several older people and I stood and almost cheered. I think the ticket at that time was about $170 or so, YEAH!! |
I totally agree. My sister used to drive my dad around and use his HC tag whenever she parked. Problem was she still used it even when he wasn't with her. My dad is now deceased and his tags are still good for another year, which my sis still uses even though she is no where near handicapped. Needless to say I don't talk to her much anymore..... for many more reasons besides this.
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Don't always assume that just because a person who is young gets out of the car that they don't have a disability. I may look perfectly fine to you when I get out of my car but have multiple scars and problems from my 5 unsuccessful back surgeries! I know there are people who abuse the system and it burns me up as well. It's just that you can't always tell who has a problem and who doesn't. If there is a relatively close spot I will park there and leave the HC spot for someone worse off, but if it is a bad day for me and there is no other close space I will use my tags.
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Originally Posted by C.Cal Quilt Girl
Agree just not right the healthy using the plates for cheater parking, have taken others who could have benefited from closer parking!! So we park as close as can get with enough room to use aid, walker,chair etc.
As for me I'm one of those parkers who mostly park way out so less dings from the other inconsiderates, with the attitude of who cares if you slam their door into the next car. One way to keep your car with NO dings, is to park between a Jaguar and a Lexus!!!! |
Originally Posted by Snorky Lvs2Quilt
I totally agree. My sister used to drive my dad around and use his HC tag whenever she parked. Problem was she still used it even when he wasn't with her. My dad is now deceased and his tags are still good for another year, which my sis still uses even though she is no where near handicapped. Needless to say I don't talk to her much anymore..... for many more reasons besides this.
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Instead, I took the 3 shopping carts that were inbetweed our spots and lined them all up along the drivers side of his sports car. :twisted:[/quote]
--------------------------------------- Big WHOOPS here, sure wish I could have seen that one!! giggle snort and howl!! Did you stick around to see what happened? |
That wouldn't happen were I live, DMV requires you return them when someone is deceased. I got a letter when my husband passed and I had to take them into the DMV.[/quote]
------------------------------------------------- I didn't get a notice, but dropped them by the DMV, which seemed to shock the nice man behind the counter. I did that so that I could honestly tell a mooch that I didn't have it any more. He had several times commented that he could use it since DH was in the nursing home, but I did take him places now and then. The mooch does not need a parking tag but is too lazy to do much on his own, which includes walking to his favorite bar. |
not all handicaps are as visible as a cane, walker or wheelchair. There are people with pain, balance problems, shortness of breath etc.
that being said, I read where 10% of the drivers in OH, I think it was, have handicap plates or tags. Are there really that many that sick? |
Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Instead, I took the 3 shopping carts that were inbetweed our spots and lined them all up along the drivers side of his sports car. :twisted:
Big WHOOPS here, sure wish I could have seen that one!! giggle snort and howl!! Did you stick around to see what happened?[/quote] If it wasn't for his attitude, I never would have done that...I didn't stick around, I had a hair appt. But he did NOT have handicap plates or tags. Sometimes it is a bit of fun to be a Senior Citizen. :shock: |
I think it varies from state to state. It is also a 170 dollar fine here if you get caught using someone else's hc tags and they aren't with you.
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I've got a H/C plate, and if I'm driving myself around, I get out and immediately look for a cart so I can grab it to catch my balance and then I can walk in the store without worry of falling.
On some good days, I am able to walk with a spring in my step...although I'm always at risk of my leg giving out. On these days I do not park in the handicap spot, because I agree that the elderly should have a spot long before I should get one. My pastor use to always tell the church, don't park in the handicap parking spot if you are not handicap...because it's like asking for an ailment....so on the days that I feel good, I want to park as far away from the h/c spots as I can. |
Originally Posted by ptquilts
not all handicaps are as visible as a cane, walker or wheelchair. There are people with pain, balance problems, shortness of breath etc.
that being said, I read where 10% of the drivers in OH, I think it was, have handicap plates or tags. Are there really that many that sick? we had to request the one for my mom and it is supposed to be returned after her death. |
Originally Posted by frugalfabrics
I've got a H/C plate, and if I'm driving myself around, I get out and immediately look for a cart so I can grab it to catch my balance and then I can walk in the store without worry of falling.
On some good days, I am able to walk with a spring in my step...although I'm always at risk of my leg giving out. On these days I do not park in the handicap spot, because I agree that the elderly should have a spot long before I should get one. My pastor use to always tell the church, don't park in the handicap parking spot if you are not handicap...because it's like asking for an ailment....so on the days that I feel good, I want to park as far away from the h/c spots as I can. |
I never did like it when people who aren't handicapped use their friend's or relative's handicapped tag when the tag's owner isn't with them.
At the grocery store they have a couple parking spots for women who are pregnat. Everytime I see it I think "How would they enforce that?" I talked to my friend's sister recently during lunch break and I thought she had lost weight...turns out she's 7 months pregnat! She did loose some weight with this pregnacy though (guessing a lot of it was the weight she gained from the last pregnacy). Some women just don't look pregnat when they are...and then there are the one who look like they are, but who aren't. What would you have to do to prove you are deserving of that parking spot? Show the most recent ultrasound picture? Sometimes at work I'll see people using the store's motorized wheelchairs that don't look like they'd be handicapped or disabled in some way. Then again, there's no way in knowing because sometimes its not so obvious. Except for the one time when I was still working on overnights there were three teenaged boys who took the ones near the closed entryway (our Wal-Mart closes one of the doors after 10pm). It was so obvious that they were just screwing around. That was a bit irritating. Yeah it was night so there were not a lot of people coming in, but sometimes there will be older disabled folks who do their shopping at night and need those chairs. And teenagers have nothing better to do than to ride around the Wal-Mart in the motorized chairs? :roll: |
One grocery near me has expectant/new mother parking- kind of irritates me-not sure why.
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I was in Houston visiting family. my uncle and I went to the local grocery store and he parked in the Expectant Mothers spot...I was mortified !!!
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OK, here is another thing. DH and I are both in our late 70's He has a very hard time walking and I have a back you would not believe. He got DA license plates on our car. Many, many times we drive round and round and finally settle for a regular spot, only to be at falt in someone's eyes that we took a spot for "regular" people! Sometimes it is easier to stay home and send someone for you.
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Originally Posted by BMP
I was in Houston visiting family. my uncle and I went to the local grocery store and he parked in the Expectant Mothers spot...I was mortified !!!
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Originally Posted by quiltmom04
I get so upset at people who ignore the "No Parking - Fire Lane" painted along the sidewalks at the shopping center. Yesterday, some one parked there to go in to Starbucks! I almost said, "Doesn't the No Parking sign mean YOU?" Grrr!
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My mom is in a wheelchair and has a handicap tag. Whoever is with her gets to use the tag. (Mom never drove.) If there isn't a space we have to park somewhere else. One SIL loves taking mom places because she likes being able to park so close. Mom is amused. We always make sure mom has it back in the pocket of her wheelchair because we never know who will be available to take her places.
The one time I had trouble the handicap parking was on a fairly steep slope. It was close to the door but mom weighs 200 lbs and I couldn't help her and not worry about her chair rolling even with the brakes on. My car door kept wanting to close. So I moved further down where the lot was even. I've always wondered who planned that one. I think if anyone ever has to help a handicapped person they would understand better why we need those spaces. |
Originally Posted by Sadiemae
Originally Posted by Snorky Lvs2Quilt
I totally agree. My sister used to drive my dad around and use his HC tag whenever she parked. Problem was she still used it even when he wasn't with her. My dad is now deceased and his tags are still good for another year, which my sis still uses even though she is no where near handicapped. Needless to say I don't talk to her much anymore..... for many more reasons besides this.
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i would have to check mom's but i think in ohio they have an expiration date. you have to reapply for it. good for five years , maybe seven?
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Yeah, my dad has to renew his every so often. Sometimes, it seems like half the parking places around here are HC, so whoever posted about Ohio being high in HC passes is probably right. If you don't have one, you have to walk about a half mile. I don't know about other doctors, but mine won't give me one, and I have had three back surgeries, and have RA of the spine. But I guess because I can still walk upright he figures I don't need one. Sometimes by the time I walk from the parking lot to the store, I have to sit for ten minutes til my back feels better so I can get through the store. Go figure!!! Maybe when I go see him on Monday, I will walk all bent over, and shame him into it!! LOL
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That really bugs me at work! We have a 5 storey parking garage and the ground floor is for visitors/customers ONLY. Well, there are about 5 people that work at my company that I always see coming and going to their cars on the ground floor.
Some people really do believe they are entitled to not follow the same rules as everyone else. |
Please don't judge those that look healthy looking at me I look like a young vibrant healthy 38 yo woman I am a 38 yo disable woman I have a back injury and on a good day I don't wince on bad days you can tell. You it bugs me to no end the looks I get because my Dr gave me a permanent tag.
Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
Originally Posted by quiltmom04
I get so upset at people who ignore the "No Parking - Fire Lane" painted along the sidewalks at the shopping center. Yesterday, some one parked there to go in to Starbucks! I almost said, "Doesn't the No Parking sign mean YOU?" Grrr!
AND the Handicapped parking. I absolutely despise the healthy people who park there, with or without Grandpa's parking pass hung on the mirror. And then they get out and trot to the store. When I get angry they merely shrug and say that it was the only close parking space there!! I've pushed my late DH's wheelchair half a block in pounding rain to get to a doctor's office, and in the sun and wind when he wanted to go to a special store, while younger healthy people parked near by in the handicapped parking spaces. Once when I was chewing a young man out a meter reader came along and asked if it was HIS parking pass. And he got an expensive ticket while several older people and I stood and almost cheered. I think the ticket at that time was about $170 or so, YEAH!! |
No matter how "sure" you are about someone misusing a handicapped parking spot, you could still be wrong. One hot summer day, my husband, the kids, DML, and I went to the zoo. When we were leaving, the kids and I went ahead to open the car to let some of the heat out while he was pushing her in the wheelchair and she still wanted to stop in a gift shop. I also got some cold drinks from the cooler in the trunk. People were nasty because they did not see the handicapped person and felt we should not have been there. Thus, I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt now, although sometimes it is really hard.
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