Perhaps people weren't raised like I was -- to care about my impact on others, including strangers, and to have common decency for the human race.
Whether it's handicap parking spaces or general spaces, often people seem to not care that they're taking up two spaces, one of which is sometimes the LAST available space at the school or the Post Office.
So the other day when a mama I know posted pictures (yes, plural) of her parking frustrations while taking her wheelchair-bound daughter around town, I was both not surprised and disappointed at the same time.
One woman parked in a parallel handicap parking space, but didn't stay within her own lines. She parked on the painted crosshatch section making it difficult to get the wheelchair out. When there is room for the ramp, you still need room to get the wheelchair off the ramp.
You would think if she has a handicap parking permit, she would have more decency than others about handicap parking, but apparently not because this lady pulled in right next to her AS she was opening the ramp and walked inside before the mama could get out of the car. This wasn't just awful parking, it was a pretty flagrant middle finger too.
The second picture, taken on the same day in another parking lot, is no better. This time the mama asked the lady to move her vehicle and the driver was not exactly friendly about it.
There is a solution, apparently. Vans have been made with rear ramps. Are these vans made because we park like jerks?? How nice. But you can't and shouldn't expect the family of a disabled child to be able to afford these vans. Just park within your lines, people.
I haven't found much to laugh about here, except for the memories of my boxing others in if they are over their line on my passenger side. Go ahead and try to get into your car now, I hope you have some Vaseline on you. Perhaps I'll make up some fun fliers to put under wiper blades for when people park like jerk faces. Not that it will change them, but it will make a few of us feel better.
-- Momster
