Good Parking Spaces
Why do you people get all the good parking spots?
My Answer to this previously asked question: Mobility is something that most able-bodied people take for granted. They don't have to worry about the distance they travel or the energy that has to be expended to get from place to place. Those with limited capacities yearn for the same ease that most transient individuals have. You said you made this post on a dare. I dare you to try one of the following: 1 Try carrying full bags of groceries out of the store to your your car, 2. Even better, try maneuvering a wheel chair on ice and snow in a parking lot, 3. Try getting across a parking lot using only one leg with crutches, 4. Crossing a busy four lane intersection on crutches or blind folded with a fast walk/don't walk light. Just try one or all of these and let us know what you think.
Public Comments
- I don't have to "try"-I'm there.
- Most people these days are pure lazy, walking a distance to their cars [ they think it would kill them ] so they park as close as they can to a store. Here in Arizona there are plenty of Handicap parking places close to all the stores. I have a trick knee but still unable to get a handicap sign on my van. So I have to walk to the stores weather I want to or not. I have the clerks carry my stuff out or I don't shop there anymore. I was in a wheelchair for 6 months because of a leg and foot injury. Crossing streets was deadly, but I made those stupid drivers wait until I wheeled across. Not my fault the lights where faster then I could push the chair. Their problem. Every state is different when it comes to handicap people. Write your Senators or Councilmen. It worked for me when I lived in California.
- Maybe, because some people who are disabled do actually have a hard time walking and getting around, because of limited mobility.
- Well, my friend, I am 65 years old, lifting my son in and out of the car. He's taller than I am and weighs about 120lbs. We don't get out much. Even pushing the wheelchair for a length of time can wear me out. I've had two back surgeries, one rotator cuff surgery, and the ulner nerve transposed in my left arm. The right arm needs rotator cuff surgery, and I'm just plain worn out. But, I love this kid and would do anything to make him happy. He's a really bright young man who has a great sense of humor about himself.
- At first I throught don't tell me we have another one of these question. I think you given them food for through.
