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Who says it's not hurting me? It's excess wear and tear on my joints. Heavies need more activity, not special treatment. We keep making things easy for them and they keep getting fatter.
Someome else's fat is wear and tear on YOUR joints?
If someone is unhealthy enough to need a handicapped card then nothing is easy for them. Your "tough love" isn't going to cut it if they can't get around in the first place. Feel sorry for them...then go about your own business because they probably won't have a long life.
I always wonder about people who zero in on someone who, even if through their own actions, is in an unfortunate situation and then yell "your fault! your fault!"
Someome else's fat is wear and tear on YOUR joints?
If someone is unhealthy enough to need a handicapped card then nothing is easy for them. Your "tough love" isn't going to cut it if they can't get around in the first place. Feel sorry for them...then go about your own business because they probably won't have a long life.
I always wonder about people who zero in on someone who, even if through their own actions, is in an unfortunate situation and then yell "your fault! your fault!"
Yes, someones fat is taking up special, unavailable to the general public, parking spaces. That means I have to park further away, meaning more miles on my joints, see how that works?
People make desicions that they don't think affect other people. They party and do whatever they want, then they want everyone else to feel bad for them later. I say poo-poo on that. Personal responsibility is out the window, then comes the attitude of entitlement. I say too bad, you made your bed, nighty-night.
Yes, someones fat is taking up special, unavailable to the general public, parking spaces. That means I have to park further away, meaning more miles on my joints, see how that works?
People make desicions that they don't think affect other people. They party and do whatever they want, then they want everyone else to feel bad for them later. I say poo-poo on that. Personal responsibility is out the window, then comes the attitude of entitlement. I say too bad, you made your bed, nighty-night.
I thought you were complaining about not being able to find handicapped spots for yourself. Obviously not.
In response to your personal message to me: I think I've expressed myself pretty well and said all I want to on the subject. I wasn't throwing darts at you.
If you ever want to see a handicap parking space battle go to a Golden Corral on a Sunday evening. You will see oldsters vs heavies damn near waging war over the spots. It's hysterical in a sad kind of trainwreck way. Or maybe I am just easily entertained.
You can chose to be obtuse, however is indicates a lot.
It's not. A totally blind person can squeeze out of a Miata and still benefit from being parked closer to the building for safety reasons. It's not always about just the ability to walk, sickofnyc. Handicapped parking is about space issues for people with wheelchairs and safety issues--drivers can't see someone in a wheelchair as clearly as they can a pedestrian who is standing, walking. But it's about shortening the time you are at risk for being hit by a car if you are disabled, especially if you are invisibly disabled and people don't know that you may not hear them/see them/be able to scoot out of the way fast enough. (Even a white cane can be totally invisible from behind because the blind person's body is blocking the driver's view of the cane.)
You'd be surprised how many sighted drivers nearly run into me before I yell and they realize they almost hit a blind person. There are blind spots in driving, people get distracted, many drivers are inattentive in general or hyper-focused on finding a parking spot and forgot about checking all their angles. There are so many situations where the handicapped spot is very useful. For example I used to hang out with two friends of mine. Between the three of us, two of us were deaf-blind and one was hearing-sighted. As you can imagine, guiding two totally deaf-blind people can be quite a handful and I'm sure my hearing-sighted friend appreciated the shorter distance in having to guide us. We couldn't even use our canes on the ground because she had to hold them straight out so drivers would see us because we would otherwise almost inevitably have someone practically run us over.
Yes, someones fat is taking up special, unavailable to the general public, parking spaces. That means I have to park further away, meaning more miles on my joints, see how that works?
People make desicions that they don't think affect other people. They party and do whatever they want, then they want everyone else to feel bad for them later. I say poo-poo on that. Personal responsibility is out the window, then comes the attitude of entitlement. I say too bad, you made your bed, nighty-night.
Lol, I wonder if I should complain that other people's vision is wear and tear on my wrists because it's only because of sighted people's inattentiveness that I need to swing my cane so wide at all.
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