Most places do not have enough spots, believe it or not. Since being diagnosed with severe arthritis and undergoing joint replacement surgery this spring I’ve learned a lot about the world of the disabled.
Many handicap parking spots are no better than the regular spots. It can be just as easy for my husband to drop me and the door and go park, and then pick me up at the door.
To get a handicap spot at Cracker Barrel one must arrive before 4:30 PM, any day of the week.
The use of mobility scooters in stores like Walmart should be limited to the owners of legal handicap plackards, or the store needs to purchase twice the number they have. Walmart is terrible about keeping their scooters serviced and charged up.
I don't know where you live, but in California MOST shopping places have way TOO many handicap parking spaces. I've been to the Costco in Redding, and they have more than enough handicap spaces. The incident in Redding didn't involve an issue of not enough parking spaces. It was two men who were acting childish, period.
As for Mobility Scooters, I concur. Just because someone is "overweight" should not be an excuse to drive a mobility cart. If they didn't purchase the garbage they buy with their EBT cards, and they walked instead of using the scooters, they could possibly lose that excess weight.
Can the calls for more socialism.
Google maps shows 16 wheelchair parking spaces. Can’t tell how many regular handicapped spaces.
I imagine that Walmart adjusts its policies based upon the best available information about how those policies ultimately affect their profits. As they should.
>The use of mobility scooters in stores like Walmart should be limited to the owners of legal handicap plackards,<
In case you don’t know, there are folks who can be absolutely incapacitated by an injury that is considered temporary, so they don’t fall within the guidelines to get a handicap permit. That doesn’t mean such folks aren’t in severe pain, which prevents them from walking.
Why should such a person be denied the help they legitimately need, so a cart can be put aside for some 400 pound oaf with a handicap sticker?
Many permanently disabled folks bring their personal scooters to the store. That way, they don’t have to worry about availability.
That’s interesting. You mean anyone can get one of those scooters just for asking? Most of the people I see using them walk into the store. Many of them look like they could use the exercise of walking to get their groceries.