Handicapped Parking Placard

[gman51]

I didn't believe much in chiropractors till one got me off crutches and horrible pain. He x-rayed my spine to make sure he could help me. After about 3-4 back alignments my knee was doing good. That has been almost 2 years ago and my knee still is doing good.
You might check into if there is a chiropractor in your area that practices Gonstead type of chiropractor. I am sold on them. My knee had enough pain for 6 months. He said my back was messed up for a long time and the area was where the nerves for the knee and lower leg were located. He sure removed my knee pain.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Conchita has been bugging me to get a handicap sign. My knees are pretty gimpy, arthritic with little or no cartilage left. On a bad day, I limp and move pretty slow. On a good day, I walk without a limp, but still move pretty slowly.

I have resisted getting the card because I figure a little extra walking will do me good, and I don't want to take a spot from somebody who really needs it.

Good shoes with the right inserts make a big difference too.

 

[steamloco76]

I don't Always Park in the HP spots
But when i NEED to, i'm Glad i have my Placard

My wife and I both have placards. Mine due to my knees and ankles, hers due to a diabetic degenerative bone syndrome, Charkot Foot. She has to wear a CRO boot all the time and has leg strength issues. She always needs her placard. I try not to use mine, but there are days I really need it when the arthritis and scar tissue in my right knee act up.

We both take abuse from ignorant "casual observers" when we use our parking placards because we are both FAT. Our weight has nothing to due with my falling and breaking my knee (tibial plateu) or my wife's degenerative bone condition. I still work every day, my wife had to take an early retirement because she could no longer stand for 8-12 hours at a time on concrete floors to do her job as a Nurses Aid.

The "Placard Nazi" ignoramuses, usually around 55 to 70 years of age, yell things like"You don't need that Handicapped space, you need exercise", "What's your handicap-LAZINESS!", or just this Monday, "Hey lady, you don't need that cane-park farther away and walk, you need to lose some weight!" My wife replied "I don't need the cane!-You try walking in the (expletive) boot all day, every day!". The guy went Hrumpf! and drove away. He is lucky I wasn't the one he said that to.

If you are fat and park in a handicap space at Walmart, everybody, and I do mean everybody, assumes you are on welfare! I get looks of amazement when I get out of my vehicle wearing dress slacks & shirt with a tie. Then limp on into the store with my "Walter Brennan" gate. The last person who yelled at me when I used my placard at Walmart was a thirty-something mother with two kids in her minivan. She stopped right behind me as I got out of my vehicle and said "You fatties shouldn't be allowed to park in those spaces, you should lose some weight." My quick reply "Why don't you mind your own business-YOU WILL LIVE LONGER!" she took off, quickly.

 

[DWalt]

I sometimes would see the local cops sitting in a shopping center parking lot and I wondered what they were doing.
One day I saw a lady park in a HC spot and she had no placard or license plate for HC. She literally ran into the store. When she came out of the store she was met by a cop that wrote her a ticket. I knew then what the cops were sitting in the parking lot for.
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You'd think there would be better things for cops to do. Maybe the City gets lots of fines from that practice. Some places allow volunteers to do ticketing for improper use of handicapped parking spaces.

One has to get handicapped rear view mirror tags from the County Tax Office here. Last time we renewed ours, the clerk said that there are many instances in which the car windows are broken to steal the handicapped tag.

 

[daniel lawecki]

My wife has a Handicap placard and it sets in the side door panel in the car. She is stubborn and still has a lot of fight left. We were out yesterday and the leg and foot are swollen. It's the leg where bone cancer was found when her bone snapped. Metal plate in leg back screws filled with cement of some sort.

 

[susieqz]

that placard is like a gun.
i don't usually need it, but if i need it, i need it bad,

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...before my Wife's 102 year old Grandmother passed on...she would always carry her placard in her purse...and make us use it whether she was going in the store or not...no questions asked... I would slump down in my seat doing my best Cheech Marin Lowrider imitation trying not to be seen...

 

[snubbyfan]

that placard is like a gun.
i don't usually need it, but if i need it, i need it bad,

I absolutely agree.
With my condition, I have good days, really good days and some not so good days.
If I need the placard, then somethings really not working right.

 

[e3mrk]

I have a handicap placard due to a few problems that sometimes make it hard to walk,I don't always park in the handicap spots unless I need to.
Some people can really be ignorant or just plain stupid because one day I was looking for a place to park and noticed that the security guard had parked in a handicapped space instead of one a few spaces down,When I confronted him about it he told me that he walks a lot farther in a day than I do and I said I wish I could walk as far as you do. He was not very pleasant so I called the number on the security vehicle and filed a complaint,needless to say the guy was out of a job the next day.
Another time My brother in laws brother told a woman she should not park in a handicapped space and she said that it was Sunday and after six o'clock.He said What? They don't go out on Sundays or after six?Maybe we need a parking lot police.

 

[snubbyfan]

I have a handicap placard due to a few problems that sometimes make it hard to walk,I don't always park in the handicap spots unless I need to.
Some people can really be ignorant or just plain stupid because one day I was looking for a place to park and noticed that the security guard had parked in a handicapped space instead of one a few spaces down,When I confronted him about it he told me that he walks a lot farther in a day than I do and I said I wish I could walk as far as you do. He was not very pleasant so I called the number on the security vehicle and filed a complaint,needless to say the guy was out of a job the next day.
Another time My brother in laws brother told a woman she should not park in a handicapped space and she said that it was Sunday and after six o'clock.He said What? They don't go out on Sundays or after six?Maybe we need a parking lot police.

After 6pm is when my pathetic gimpy useless cripple meds start wearing off and I'm more likely to need the handicapped parking space.
These people are clueless.

 

[loknload]

I have one and only use it when I'm having a bad breathing day! These last several hot days have kept me in the A/C along with my other recent medical issues!

 

[cwo4uscgret]

I am a 100% Disabled Vet. Do I look like it? Probably not unless you see me stand up after sitting, look at the scars on my knees, talk to my cardiologist, or see the daily meds I have to take; so on those days when I need to, I use my handicap plates. My wife knows and will not park in a handicap space unless she is driving me somewhere...