I am handicapped. I used to have one of those to hang up when I used a Handicapped Parking spot.
When I first got my drivers license back after many years of suspension, I took the
Driving Test using my niece's husband's handicapped van (they were waiting inside)
We pulled out of the handicapped parking spot, I ran the course and did all the things required, then when we were finished, I started to return to the handicapped spot we'd vacated.
Because of that, I almost failed my test.
"If YOU are not the handicapped person to whom the placard or tags are registered to, YOU cannot use a handicapped designated parking spot, UNLESS that person is IN THE VEHICLE WITH YOU when you park" sayeth the law.
There are two designated spots right in front of my apartment. My neighbor across from me on the ground floor (of course) is also handicapped.
We KNOW you cannot reserve these spots. So if someone with a valid tag/placard who is handicapped chooses to park there, they have just as much right as I do.
The image above I took through the windshield of a BRIGHT ORANGE sports car. (I got the tag too)
I've seen the driver, she shows absolutely no problem walking or carrying packages up the stairs across the parking lot from where she is parked/my apartment, where her mother lives.
Her MOTHER is the handicapped person.
So last Saturday, I sat in my car watching this person unload ½ dozen bags of groceries, carry them up the stairs (several trips)
She saw me watching. When she left, I drove all the way around my complex to see where she'd parked. Nowhere.
So I made my 10 min trip, came back and she was parked in the spot I had been in.
I printed a note, saying she was a heartless person, because she was forcing a 65 yrs old man with COPD, a Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and an artificial hip to walk from the bottom of the hill, whereas she had no problem walking.
I placed this on her windshield. The next morning she was gone and I promptly moved my car.
Come Monday morning, the office called me to ask if I had put a note on that car.
I said yes, because the driver of that car is not handicapped (I outlined what had happened and what the law says)
The ofc manager told me that the older person who IS handicapped has lived here about 6 yrs.
Monday evening, my neighbor left, and that person promptly pulled into the handicapped parking spot. I called the manager, she called that person who came and moved her hotrod, then immediately came back and pounded on my neighbor's door. Of course he wasn't home.
Where will this all end?
When two people, with
Two differing ideas or paradigms
Come into conflict, bad things tend to happen.
When there is not willingness to compromise,
or even better,
to CHANGE, on the part of either party,
A complete
Breakdown of relationship is to
Be expected.
A loss of trust is inevitable.
This should be avoided at all cost, but
How?
If we talk about things, openly
It can help to avert things, but only
If there is room to accept that you
May have been wrong about your
Position.
This takes maturity, not
Always readily available when
There is conflict.
Maturity is a
Learned quality in some folks.
We should learn it, each
One of us.
Or strive too.
by
Jerry E Smith
©5/7/16
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