You should read my last post.
I did.
So there are 5 open spaces and you take one.
How do you know that 5 handicapped drivers are not going to want to park there while you are inside?
Crystal ball?
Ouija board?
Tea leaves?
do tell.
This is a seriously uncool practice. Here in California if you were caught beside a HUGE fine, the placard is taken away. Bet your friends mom would be real happy about that.
Don’t be a putz.
Frankly, I don’t believe he only parks where there are plenty of spaces. Laziness knows no bounds.
I don’t think there’s ever been a time that there was more than one or two cars parked in handicapped spots at the local store. But sure, just for the sake of argument we’ll say that there are six or seven times as many cars parked in handicapped spots on a given day. I’d use tarot cards.
I’ve never been able to put that to the test. I go to the store with my friend using his mom’s car maybe once a month (we’ll usually use my car and we park in a normal spot when that happens) and there are always spots open.
Edit: And I call myself lazy jokingly quite a bit but to be honest I don’t really consider myself lazy. There’s just no reason not to park in a field of empty spots. If we went at two in the morning when nobody was there we wouldn’t drive all the way to the back of the parking lot for no reason so I see no reason to do that otherwise.
There is a reason. There are at least two reasons. You have no idea when those spaces will be needed, and it is against the law. It’s not up to you.
I think the first reason is bologna (I’ve already discussed that) and as for the second reason- whenever I download a song or smoke marijuana I’m breaking the law.
“It’s illegal!” isn’t a valid explanation for why something is immoral. The first reason would certainly be valid if there was actually any shortage of handicapped spots where I park. Anecdotes about a cripple trying to find a spot don’t do anything for me considering I’ve never parked in a handicapped space that wasn’t completely surrounded by other, open handicapped spaces.
Give it up. You will never convince me of that. You are the guy who takes the last open spot. You are the guy who parks on the stripes. You are the guy who parks across two spots. Yeah, i know you. I keyed your car last week.
If that helps you wrap your head around it.
The hell it doesn’t. That’s really, really shitty behavior. It’s definitely a “fucking big deal.” You should give a shit – read the rest of the thread and stop acting like a selfish dick.
Since I just read in another thread that you aren’t even 21 yet, I’m going to chalk this up to simply not having grown a sense of responsibility, and not outright douchebaggery, which was my initial thought.
Whether you think it’s immoral or not, it really is illegal. And your friend’s mom can get her privileges revoked if someone catches her tag or plate being used without her being in the car. Maybe you don’t care. However, either she doesn’t really need those plates/tags or you’re lying about it being her idea…because if she needs them, she’s not likely to want them revoked.
I appreciate that it’s illegal and I appreciate that she could potentially get her tag revoked for it. Yes, it really was her idea. Everyone living in her house (five adults including her) uses the tag (it’s one of the ones that you hang from the rear-view mirror) with both of the cars that they have.
She has trouble walking because of her weight, but I don’t think that that’s the issue for which she was given the placard. I know she has another health issue and I think that that’s the one she was given the placard for. Either way, I don’t think she’d care if she had it taken from her- as if that matters considering that she’s told her son, the driver of her car when I’m with him, to use the card in that manner. Birds of a feather, right?
I like to think that I’m a logical and moral person (yes, I know, many of you disagree) and I really don’t think any of you have provided a good reason for why I’m such a douchebag. I told you that every time we’ve parked in a handicapped spot there’s a good two dozen open ones (I’m probably just lying, though) so I don’t see the problem.
You may be logical by your lights, but you’re not moral.
And my husband and I went out the night before last. It happened that on that day, I was having a particularly hard time walking and balancing. We had to go to three places…and all three places had their multiple handicapped parking spots full. So maybe you live in an area that frequently has empty handicapped parking spots, but that hasn’t been my experience.
Don’t worry about it: I’m just lying about that, too.
I do not have a handicapped placard and today I parked in front of a medical building using a handicap placard for several hours. I am a certified asshole. No, I did not get a ticket.
I call BS on the claim of numerous empty spaces. I did a random look at several dozen Wal-Marts around the country(Google Earth) and not only did none have two dozen HC spots but they certainly were not unused. My experience locally is that it’s rare to find an open HC space during normal business hours.
You’re absolutely right about the two dozen spaces. I was full of shit. On my first search I found that there aren’t even two dozen spaces at the local shopping center to begin with. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking. But there were plenty of empty spaces (I marked the handicapped spots with red dots - and I have no idea how the fuck Food City stays in business; it’s the middle of the day in that picture but there’s no one there. Typical).
And if by “normal business hours” you meant “peak hours” then I’d have no idea what the handicapped situation is. My friend and I aren’t going to go to Wal-Mart during peak hours and stand in line for half an hour for a frozen pizza and a bottle of soda.
You know, if the repeated claims of empty spaces were at any store other than a Walmart, I’d believe them. But during my Walmart shopping days, I’d go at all times of the day and night, and only after midnight did I ever see multiple open handicapped spaces, and that’s at the huge supercenter type Walmart stores. It’s been something that my friends and I who are all PWD talk about: why do so many of us flock to Walmart. (Easy answer: people with disabilities are impoverished at rates far out of step with the rest of the community, and many of us can’t afford to shop anywhere else, plus Walmart does a surprisingly good job – considering their lackadaisical compliance with certain other categories of law – of having aisles and walkways that are ADA-compliant in width for maneuvering wheelchairs and scooters.)
At night at my Wal-Mart the parking lot is nearly deserted. As if it matters. They reduce the amount of open registers to one so even the small number of people there can form lines. I’d like Wal-Mart if it weren’t for the lines.
Justify it however you want - to the majority of people here there is NO, absolutely NO excuse for an able-bodied person to park in a handicapped spot (barring having such a person with them). In other words, you’re a tool.