Is it just me or are there a lot of people with handicap placards today?
I don't mean to be insensitive but I remember when if you had a handicap placard hanging from your rear view mirror you were probably driving a huge white van with a hydraulic lift to lower your wheelchair or gurney to the ground. Or some special, custom made steering and pedal system so you could drive with your feet.
Today I saw a Ford F250 4X4 with an 8 inch lift kit, big Super Swamper mud terrain tires, heavy duty Rancho shocks and a chrome roll bar with flood lights. And way, way up inside the cab, hanging from the mirror, a handicap placard. You'd need a telescoping construction-grade ladder to get in or out of this monster but somehow this driver was handicapped.
Again I don't mean to be insensitive, because there are plenty of people who need and deserve preferential parking, but one day the handicap parking spaces will out number the regular ones. Then not long after that, all the spaces will be for the handicapped, but everybody will have a placard.
Eventually the poor guy with the huge white van and hydraulic wheelchair lift will be left parking on the roof of a five story parking garage.
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