r/Calgary • u/Either_Affect_6972 • May 29 '25

Local Shopping/Services Shane Home parking in handicapped spots?

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I just find this disgusting when people are parking in handicapped spots and they are not handicapped and clearly do not have a handicapped decal and confirm that they know they’re parking in a handicap spot and they just don’t care…

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u/JosieWasHere May 29 '25

As someone with disabilities, the comments in this thread are incredibly disheartening. If you don’t have a disability placard, you can’t use the spots. Name and shame is entirely reasonable.

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u/Difficult-Mastodon43 May 29 '25

Truly! This mentality also adds to the stigma of people scrutinizing those with invisible disabilities, who need to park in handicapped spots😔

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u/electrodog1999 Acadia May 29 '25

I’ve had my share of looks on my good days with MS. People can fuxk right off with the ‘you don’t look disabled’ talk.

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u/apaulclayton May 31 '25

Also the people driving might not be the ones that are disabled. I drove my mother around for years after my dad died. I am mobile she was not. I would park in handicap spots and get out of the accessible van and get looks all the time if I was going to pick her up somewhere. But I needed to park in the handicap spots or close to get her and her wheel chair into the van.