Bill had a Handicap Permit from back when he was still driving a van.
We recently had to renew it, and according to the law here, to renew we
had to have a Doctor's note or some type of proof that we didn't have at
hand. So,.......the driver's bureau here had to call down to Crab
Orchard where Bill is from and someone knew him personally (some
politician) and knew he was 100% disabled, so the bureau here wrote it up
"unknown" proof, and went ahead and gave him a placard. The law says
the official can approve it himself if it is "obvious" the person is
disabled.
We sometimes use it when he wants to only sit in the car and send me
inside a business - often I have to have a clerk come to the car to show
him items.
More often, we don't even park in a handicapped parking spot. When
we go to the VA, they almost always are already full. When we went to
the Brown Cancer Center, about half the time, they were full there, too.
I never can figure out how to unload him in the "unload" spots because
the ramp maybe isn't right to line it up to my car door.
The thing I think is the oddest. At his apartment complex. We never
asked for him to have his own marked spot. This is because I don't live
there and the car is mine. I would hate for someone to have to park 10
spots out there and walk in the snow, rain, or ice, because of me having
a spot.
I would think they would leave a spot for him if they could but they
almost never bother. They just figure I can kind of "load up" out in the
center of things. When he went to the Cancer Center, we loaded each and
every day for 37 days, too.
There are many there, who live there and have their own cars, who can
walk. There is one very nice and sweet lady who has the handicap placard
and her own designated spot. Every morning she comes out and walks up to
the highway to the front of the complex for "exercise for her arthritis"
which I never can figure out. I figure if it is hard for her to get to
the car, then how can she each and every day walk up to the front and
call it her "PT."
My point here is that it must be pretty easy to get a placard and
to even get a designated spot (marked.)......and it is kind of amusing to
me. To see her out walking and then have that spot, too. Oh well......
Barb D. in Louisville who takes care of Bill rambling on here.
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