Whale Pilot

Maybe we can get these Washlet

Even Ron White love's em! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPqcpo-yDVw

Whale Pilot

You'll have to get a Doctors note for that one too!

MaydayMark

I once flew with a Capt. that only had vision in his left eye. His FAA vision waiver said, "LEFT SEAT ONLY." ... No joke

Flaps50

Maybe we can at least get some company stickers so we can put them in the windshield and the security will know how to get ahold of us via the info on the sticker so we can be informed before our cars are towed... I have an ok airport car, but I have come out and had a flat before... after sitting in 6 inches of water sometimes the rims rust a bit and create slow leaks. A few weeks later you have a flat tire...

Overnitefr8

Are there any handicap parking spots in the Democrat lot? At least where pilots park? I think FDXdispatchguy is talking about a different parking lot.

MD11Fr8Dog

I can park where I want, I have a note from my mechanic!

TonyC

The poster referred to the CTC parking lot, not the Democrat Pilot parking lot or the "Out & Back" lot, so I don't think we're talking about pilots.

Bone disorders, muscular or neurological disorders, chronic pain, injuries, or illness, organ transplant, oxygen impairment, recent surgery ... some may be temporary, some are permanent. Are you familiar with Fibromyalgia?


In the case being discussed here -- one person gets out of car, goes inside building, comes back out, and gets in car -- that person should be the one with the disability. The permit/placard/sticker should be for the handicapped person, not the car.

But there's another scenario where a healthy driver operates the vehicle for a handicapped person. In that case, you may see the car park in the handicapped parking spot, an apparently healthy person hop out of the car and jog to the building. That's obviously a violation of the intent, right? Well, wait a minute ... now we see that same person pushing a wheelchair with their handicapped spouse or parent or child or neighbor or friend from the building back to the car. That's a much different appearance, isn't it?

I think the scenario which irks most people is where the healthy person uses the handicapped person's permit to take advantage of the reserved parking when the handicapped person isn't even there. The problem we run into is that with the "invisible" handicaps, the first scenario, with a "not obviously" handicapped person, appears to many observers to be just like the last scenario, with a non-handicapped person.

I won't do it. Even when I am driving one of my in-laws in their own cars, who have legitimate needs and the proper permits/tags, I won't use the handicap spots unless they are going to be getting out of the car. If they'll be waiting in the car while I run in to the store for a few minutes, I'll use a regular spot and leave the handicap spot for someone else. At the same time, I'm not going to be terribly critical of someone who is a caregiver for a handicapped person taking advantage of the convenience to run inside to pick up a prescription or a gallon of milk. I think that technically violates the intent, but I'll reserve condemnation until I've walked a mile in that caregiver's moccasins.



Have you ever seen Neil Cavuto? Can you tell by looking at him what his handicap is?






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Jetjok

Yes. He's an opinionated jerk, which in my opinionated opinion, is a more difficult malady to deal with than the MS that he suffers with.

TonyC

I wear an orange Join The Movement wristband for a loved one who sufers from Multiple Sclerosis.

I wish she could just choose between that and being an opinionated jerk.





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Jetjok

Me too....