Why the heck do you people get all the good parking spaces?

Question

I thought you wanted to be treated like everyone else.

Here's the link Nea:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao5cSRmN851jvQ3394NRoTHsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070920112429AA1qZ1M&show=7#profile-info-YLUQSWMtaa

Answer 1

well, why not? If I can get a good parking I would. Plus.. wouldn't you park nice and close if you could?

Plus, after losing points elsewhere... I tend to think they deserve the parking spots, even if they do want an easier way to walk in, pain free. They still don't want help from an average Joe walk over and pity them

Answer 2

You might think you are funny - but let me tell you, my dear - you are NOT. Apparently you have NEVER been in a wheelchair before have you?

I don't have a disability but my passenger uses a powerchair and we need wider spaces so I can open the car door FULLY to get the chair next to the seat and then lift him into the car.

Without these spaces - I CAN NOT get him in or out of the car. Yes we want to be treated like everyone else! We want to be able to park a car and to be able to get in and out of the car _ JUST LIKE YOU and to be able to get INTO the shops (thus the need for wider doors and NO steps!)

You might think it is funny posting a question like this - but take note - ANYONE - including you - at anytime - can become disabled. You could get hit by a drunk driver (an event of which you will have no control over) and lose both your legs, you might slip on a wet footpath and hit your back hard on the ground and get permanent spinal damage and unable to walk 100 metres without suffer excruciating pain, or any of many accidents. Then, let see how quick you WANT those good parking spaces and how quick you want to be treated equal.

Answer 3

Wow.

(long pause to get over shock of question)

Wow.

Anyway...
First, I think that "us" wanting "to be treated like everyone else" is more in the lines of being treated as a human being, not a competition as to who gets the good parking spaces.

I have found that when I need to use a cane, people are great in helping out, which I appreciate. Guess I'm just a different generation, one in which we were taught to help out our fellow man. I don't even want a disability permit for parking yet. As long as I can still walk the farthest distance between the parking lot and the store, I'll walk as long as these poor legs let me. And at that point, I will take public transport. For those people that I know who use their handicap permits, none abuse it. Most don't even want to make the journey out of home due to this type of ignorance. Most would be happy to trade places with someone who is fully functional.

I hope that you never have to be one of "us" - because I would rather stare at this question in awe and shock, than have yet another person struggling with issues of disability.

Answer 4

What did the question who's url you posted in your question have to do with your question? The two have no commonality at all. Also even though I am legally disabled, I don't get "good parking spaces" as I am very able-bodied. And yes I do want to be treated like everybody else.

Answer 5

It is not an issue of good parking spaces - it is an issue of proximity.

People who still walk, but cannot walk easily need to be close to the door. People who have asthma or sun allergies need to be close to the door so that they are not exposed to to much sun or allergens. People with heart conditions need to be close to the door so that they do not overtax their heart. People who use chairs ride at a height that is very easy to miss seeing and can easily be run over - so the close spaces limit the time a person in a chair is in the parking lot rolling down the aisle.

Answer 6

If by "you people" you are referring to the disabled, I am certain that any one of them would gladly swap parking places with you if they could also give you their disability and they could walk to the door on two good legs or not have to stop and use an inhaler after a few steps, or not experience excruciating pain while walking, or not have their lives endangered from a weak or damaged heart. I hope you never have to experience any of the conditions that society compassionately makes allowances for. But if you do, I hope no one will begrudge saving you a few steps from the parking lot to the door.

Answer 7

*Falls on the floor, crying with laughter*

Dang, that's a good-un! I feel so GUILTY but I cannot stop giggling. *Reads it again* Tee hee hee.

I remember someone asking a question similar to this years ago except seriously; he was accusing the handicapped of faking it for the sticker when all they really were was fat. Almost passed out. It was that day I learned the curse words that pass Yahoo inspection.

Skalite is evil!

Answer 8

When people without disabilities design buildings with no ramps, sidewalks with no curb cuts, doors and restrooms that youcan't get a whellchair into, and so on--plus about a hundred other things that exclude people with disabilities--you shut us out.

One of the accomodations that lets out of the isolation "normal people" have created for the disabled is designated parking spaces. If some pople don't like that--its jsut too damn bad. They should try designing things to include, rather than exclude people.

Answer 9

Disabled people can't walk long distance a lot of times if at all and there needs to be special parking lots for that reason and also to give them some room to come out in their wheelchairs.

Answer 10

I feel there should be a certain allotment of hanicapped spaces but what I don't think is right is when an office has 10-15 handicap parking spaces when many are not disabled. Able people should not be left with the left over parking just because they can walk. It is almost like saying oh since your able lets make your life more difficult and that is not right either.