Thursday, August 03, 2006

Handicapped Parking


The other day I'm at the library, because that's the way I roll, and I noticed that the handicapped parking spot had a sign similar to this one.

So I was trying to figure out why the fine is $50 to $300. Are there vaying rates of unhandicappedness that I'm not aware of. If you park in the handicapped spot and get out of your car in running shoes and your sports bra do you get the $300 fine? If you get out of the car and you have a slight limp from the softball game last night then I supposed you get hit with the $50 'it's kind of O.K. ' fine.

Of course if you park in a handicap spot and you aren't handicapped, by taking that spot away from a handicapped person that means by default you are mentally handicapped so maybe it should be O.K. for you to park there. Except I don't know what kind of sticker you would have to have on your car to point out you are mentally handicapped. Maybe it could just be a picture of a guy sitting in front of a TV set watching Jerry Springer.