Think before parking in a disabled parking

JACKIE writes:

I would like to comment on Chazelle’s letter in last week’s Express (Don’t take our parking).

I’m also wheelchair-bound, for a couple of years now. People (the so-called grownups ) are selfish and rude to people in wheelchairs.

I would like to make one statement very clear to my fellow citizens, disabled parking is for people with disabilities such as wheelchairs, walking with both crutches or a walking aid. Not for people walking with a cane or a common limp.

Woman are the biggest culprits and they know who they are. God gave you two healthy legs to walk with so please make sure you use them while you still can. I wonder what you will do the day you legs get taken away from you?

You most probably go and sit in a corner and feel sorry for yourself. Not to even mention the blue murder you will scream if no disabled parking is available because healthy people with no disability are in that space that you so desperately need.

Or is it just plain ignorance not to think maybe I should just drop the people with walking sticks and the aged ones at the entrance, and park in a normal parking and walk the 35 metres.

So I’m asking very nicely to make sure you are permanently disabled or are you only disabled for the time you spend in the shopping centre, as you still have a choice to be disabled or not. I only have one choice and that is to get my wheelchair out and struggle to get to my destination.

Please think twice before parking in a disabled parking if you are healthy because somewhere there are people like me who really need the space.