Fat People Aren't Handicapped.....

This post really doesn't have anything to do with fat people being handicapped. I saw the site on Facebook...dealing with taking away their Handicapped Parking Tags, and it got me thinking. I don't think most people realize how inconsiderate they are when it comes to alternately abled people. I mean this in regards to Handicapped Parking Spaces.

The other night at Griffen's baseball game the mother of my boys (my ex-wife), pulls into the packed parking lot....she unloads my boys...including Cullen who uses a wheelchair. She correctly presumes of the cars parked in the 4-5 Handicapped spots, a few are parked illegally (please note I did say illegally). She has no qualms about letting people know when they are illegally parked...soooo she approaches one person sitting in their illegally parked car....she uses tack..using the the "Did you know you were...." approach. As usual in these situations the person moves begrudgingly...with no apology...with no "it wont happen again...". The person somehow feels put out....

Now in this particular incident to overlook the infraction would have meant parking at least a quarter mile away...and navigating the gravel road to the ballfield, while pushing a wheelchair. I am not a confrontational person..so if I had driven this would have been the outcome.

This scene is not rare for us....It happens most often at the schools my sons have attended. Arriving at school functions we will find the Handicapped Parking Spots full...several by illegally parked cars. We have blocked people in before, and we have placed pre-printed fliers on windshields informing people that they are parked illegally, with it being a $500.00 fine. In the cases when the drivers have been present...we have never received an apology...only hostility.

I am not presuming these are cold-hearted, mean people....only that they are thoughtless and inconsiderate. I assume they believe the spots will be unused...or that no one will care. I also think that do not realize alternately abled children go to the school...well guess what Cullen does.....

I will save the Fat People and the Oxygen Bottle People for another post.....