Stop parking in the only fucking handicapped parking spot at the office!
Granted, not all physical disabilities are immediately apparent. So I’ve said nothing. But now I’ve worked with you for years - you have absolutely no problem getting around.
In fact, you’re one of the hated “brisk walkers” - you walk too fast and don’t watch where you are going. You’ve nearly bowled me over coming around corners more than once.
Your wife has a legitimate physical disability, and for this you got tags for all your automobiles. Fair enough.
But your wife doesn’t come with you to work, so stop fucking parking in the handicapped spot just because your car has the tag. It’s trash, you’re trash.
And now we have a co-worker who broke her ankle! And yet you take the spot while she has to traverse the entire lot!
Every day I’m a bit closer to keying your minivan. DIAF.
report him to the DMV. It is abuse of the tag for someone who it is not assigned to to use. It was happening where I work about a year and a half ago, and it was actually reported to HR and they took care of it by talking to her.
I didn’t know there was a name for these people. There’s a large woman where I work like this. She walks very fast; she’s always on her cell phone; and she never looks where she is going. I’ve had to dodge her many times.
I’ve been tempted, instead of dodging her, to just stand firm and brace myself. But then I would end up being touched by her large and scary looking breasts. Ewwww.
Anyway I hate people who abuse handicapped parking.
My former in-laws did this. My now-deceased MIL had a severe case of hypochondria, and somehow finagled her doctor into signing off on two handicap hang tags; one for her husband’s car and one for her daughter’s car. (The daughter lived at home with them)
After she passed away, the two of them continued to use the hang tags, at their apartment, when going to work or shopping.
It pissed me off to no end, but they justified it in their tiny little minds. They even continued to use them after both tags expired. The date is rather small, so you’d have to actually walk up close to the car to check it.
They got busted after someone at their apartment complex reported them to the management office. The husband was okay with it, and actually seemed embarrassed, but my ex-SIL was outraged. I pointed out to her that she wasn’t handicapped and therefore didn’t need it, but more importantly, she was taking up a space for someone with a legitimate need. She never did seem to wrap her mind around that concept - her thought process was, “I have the tag, I’m entitled to use it!” :rolleyes:
Depends. Is the tag issued to a car or to a person? If the person the tag is issued for isn’t in the car, is the tag still valid at that moment? Say the person the tag is issued for isn’t even living in the household anymore…is the tag still valid until it’s expiration?
Hang tags are intended to allow anyone who is giving a ride to a qualified handicapped person to park in a handicapped space. They are not intended to allow non-handicapped people to park in handicapped spaces when there is no handicapped person with them. My wife had a handicapped tag for a while, and once a friend asked if he could borrow it so he could park in handicapped spot rather than have to walk across a parking lot when he went shopping. He got an earful about abuse of handicapped parking, which was (and still is) one of my pet peeves.
Not speaking to the legality of the situation in the OP’s state, because I don’t have their laws handy, but using a handicapped tag issued for the benefit of someone who is not with you on that trip violates the concept supporting the issuance of said tag.
It’s perfectly legal for me to park the ladder truck in the fire lane at K Mart when we respond there for an automatic fire alarm activation. It’s not legal for me to do so because one of the guys wants to run inside and pick up his photos or a prescription.
He does. I think it is in the current issue of Wired that mention he sometimes parks his very fancy sports car in his spot and the handicapped spot next to it. People have been known to leave notes reading “Park Different.”
Speaking for CT and NY, the tag is issued to the person. There is the option in CT for just the hang tag, just the plates or a set of plates and a hang tag. I have just the hang tag. I am thinking when I get the new car next summer of getting the plates for it and keeping the hang tag for when I travel or someone else is driving me.