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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 452441" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>I agree, this is none of his business. I had a placard when I was laid up. Still qualify for one, but I don't <em>need</em> it, so I don't get it. And have you tried ketoprofen for your knee pain? It helped a few people I know.</p><p></p><p>Sidebar - I don't try to judge folks using the handicap parking spots anymore because of two people. One is in the book Alex, the life of a child - it was a tv movie way back when, too. The little girl had CF, and on the day she died, at home, with her family, she asked for grape soda. The dad, who authored the book, detailed using the parking spot that day, despite the fact that his daughter was not with him. His detail of waiting in line with all the "regular" people having "regular" days while he was trying to buy his dying daughter grape soda and get home with it before she died struck a chord with me and has stuck with me since. I was probably 10 when I read that book.</p><p></p><p>The other incident that reinforced that was my friends who have twin girls who are both quadrapalegics and on ventilators. At one point one of the parents HAD to be at home with these girls at all times in case one of them coded. Dad worked 6 days a week, so mom had to cram all of the family's shopping and errands into an hour or two here and there when dad could be home. I went with her on one of those whirlwind trips, and she only used the handicap spot when she literally ran into Walmart. </p><p></p><p>I know many people abuse them, but these were enough to really drive home to me that perfectly fine people parking in a handicap spot may well NOT be perfectly fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 452441, member: 1848"] I agree, this is none of his business. I had a placard when I was laid up. Still qualify for one, but I don't [I]need[/I] it, so I don't get it. And have you tried ketoprofen for your knee pain? It helped a few people I know. Sidebar - I don't try to judge folks using the handicap parking spots anymore because of two people. One is in the book Alex, the life of a child - it was a tv movie way back when, too. The little girl had CF, and on the day she died, at home, with her family, she asked for grape soda. The dad, who authored the book, detailed using the parking spot that day, despite the fact that his daughter was not with him. His detail of waiting in line with all the "regular" people having "regular" days while he was trying to buy his dying daughter grape soda and get home with it before she died struck a chord with me and has stuck with me since. I was probably 10 when I read that book. The other incident that reinforced that was my friends who have twin girls who are both quadrapalegics and on ventilators. At one point one of the parents HAD to be at home with these girls at all times in case one of them coded. Dad worked 6 days a week, so mom had to cram all of the family's shopping and errands into an hour or two here and there when dad could be home. I went with her on one of those whirlwind trips, and she only used the handicap spot when she literally ran into Walmart. I know many people abuse them, but these were enough to really drive home to me that perfectly fine people parking in a handicap spot may well NOT be perfectly fine. [/QUOTE]
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