Don't You Hate People That Park In Handicap Parking and are Not Handicap??

I feel that if someone is sitting in the car waiting for the person to come out of the store they should be able to watch for the person to come out and pick them up at the door instead of occupying one of the few spots reserved for handicapped people.

Do they have the handicap placard? If they do, then why would you get mad. I think that handicap parking is first come first serve. Just because a person does not come out of the car in a wheel chair, that does not mean they are not handicapped. I try not to judge people who use their placard and their disabilities are not obvious. If they are parked in the handicap and have no placard then I understand your getting security or taking a picture.

This was NOT a handicap parking it was an EXPECTANT MOTHER Reserved parking and no one was pregnant that came out of that van, thank you for contributing!

It is very selfish indeed.

I agree with both of you. They are really ignorant of the law and somewhat uncivilized.

when you were pregnant did you go into the store with your son alone while your husband sat in the car? I feel that if she were having that type problem her husband would have went in the store with her, or the kids would have atleast stayed in the car with him.

I agree, when I was pregnant with my daughter I had a condition called hyperemisis (HG)that was present from day 1. I was rushed to the emergency room about every other day for my entire pregnancy for 2-3 bags of IV fluids & IV nutrition here & there because I was constantly severely dehydrated (for matters beyond my control) & sometimes they even noted I was malnurished. I only went out when my husband ws with me b/c I would faint from dizzy spells & was terrified of collasping & my son being unattendended & getting kidnapped and/or hurt. He always drove for that same reason too. My baby girl IS considered disabled (even though she looks like a normal baby (or at least while she has on her clothes). She has had 3 major intestional surgeries done, all within the first 3 months of her life (she's 5 months now), and is expected to need a feeding tube long term. She was also a preemie (by 7 weeks) so getting in & out once she comes home (she's still hospitalized right now) will be a top priority, to help minimize the risk of infections. Although a lot of people abuse these reserved parking spots, some people have pretty severe disabilities (temperary, or permenent) & it might not always be noticable.

It doesn't matter whether she was having a difficult pregnancy or not. The fact is her husband/boyfriend was driving the car. He could drop her off and pick her up again instead of taking the space on someone else who may need it.

I agree with you totally, and I wish the people that post the handicap parking spaces would police them more for people that abuse it

not worried about ticket don't want it towed... but don't do it anyway...

Yeah, but the 3 kids and the father waited in the car. Meanwhile some poor unfortunate pregnant woman is probably driving around looking for a space and going mad because her two year old is in the back screaming with the tiredness. Ok......it's completely hypothetical but it's a point worth noting.

The mother that got out with the children was NOT pregnant and the children were grade school age, the sign was for EXPENTANT MOTHERS not mothers that already had children, thank you for contributing

Just because no one ever uses them doesn't give a non-handicapped person the right to use them. They are marked for a reason and you are chancing a huge fine just for parking there.

Too funny ... thanks for contributing

If I saw you I wouldn't have hated you I posted under someone further up. I also went through a period of being very ill. Infact, because I DIDN'T have a temp hanicapped sticker, I didn't use the space (but I did use the expectant mother one b/c I didn't see anyone else using those spots with a sticker). But because I was so ill I DID collaspe trying to get into a store once - luckily my husband was carrying our son. When I regain consiousness, I was embarrased, cryed & just want to go home, cuz there were so many people just staring at me - like "what's wrong with her" "is she ok?". At that point I was just barley starting to show, so I know looks can be decieving.