Getting Better & Parking Spots & The Handicap

Just a quick update on my Honey and a long ramble...
He seems to be doing better...he ate a few bites today...got up and walked around some...The 3 or 4 laps he walked in his room slap wore him out though. I am super glad his color is improving and his face ain't so sunken in. He seems to be enjoying all the attention he has been getting from family and friends. Him and his buddy's may not talk all the time but they are there for when times are rough. It's cool to sit back and watch their friendship!

I am still pretty stress out and I am exhausted...I am also majorly cranky and irritable. I am aggravated about the self-centeredness of people nowadays. Everyday this year I have seen it and its only the 4th day into it. Today I did a good thing for the wrong reason. Its kinda bugging me...When Sassy and I got to the hospital, we had to go through the parking garage. I know not to even look on the first couple levels cause those parking spots are always taken.  We get parked up on the 3rd level...headed to the door to take you to the elevators. WELL...this lady whips in to a spot right in front of us...Sassy popped off with "Mom that's handicap!" That really well dressed woman driving her Chrysler Aspen was getting out of her vehicle right when we got up next to it and heard Sassy say it...my response was "she must be a retard"...the spot this woman took was right nest to the elevator door that has those blue lines going across it to keep from parking there. You know they're right next to a van accessible handicap spot. There was maybe  a foot of room between her fancy dancy SUV and the rail on the passenger side and she squeezed out on the drivers side.
I was stewing and Sassy thought it was hilarious she would NOT ride the elevator with us. I know it seems like I am not setting a good example...I REALLY DO! Well I am a smoker so I went to my car to smoke. I had to pass  by the SUV and I was stewing again. I got to my car and all I could think about was someone needs to say something to that women. I reached in the back seat floorboard and got the paper floor mat the mechanic left in my car. I flipped in over and dug a marker out of my console...I wrote her a note. I was not very nice BUT I was aggravated. Please no one get offended with I put because I will explain my reasoning for how I worded in a minute. I put...

You must be really be a retard...I see no handicap tag or placard or any thing on your fancy dancy SUV. You are parked in the a spot for the handicap, for people to be able to get of a van in a wheelchair...I hope and pray that you never end up in a wheel chair. You are just a retard...oh wait handicapped mentally challenge people get placards & tags...so you must just be plain STUPID! I left the note on her windshield. Nothing like having a note the size of a floor mat on your car with the words facing out for everyone to read...I know my wording sucked big time...give me a minute to finish this and I will explain. Well I went on back up to the my Honey's room and I told him what I did and he thought it was funny. The nurse walked in when we were discussing it and she said I should report it security. SO me and Sassy waited a bit and went to see if was still there. It was so I took a pic of her tag to show security cause I sure couldn't have remembered the it and I had nothing to write with. I talked to security...they said they couldn't do any thing because it was a federal offense that he would call the sheriff. He was on the phone with them when me and Sassy headed back to the room...I did holler back and tell him apparently someone else didn't like it either and had left a note on the windshield. HE said "really?" Sassy said "yes sir!" I did the right thing kinda just because I was taking my frustration on someone that didn't deserve it...even if she was in the wrong too.

OK I grew up with a sister that has cerebral palsy. Her and her friends all handicap were normal to each other because they were the same. I was always the oddball to them. Us that do not have their limitations call them retards. My sister and her friends used this logic against me...I was not like them I was the retard. Makes sense to me...but in my opinion a retard is just a label for someone that has no intelligence...I do not call handicap mentally challenged people a retard because in their own way they each a have a gift that's unique. This chick lack the intelligence...It aggravates me also because I have a former employer/friend that is paraplegic. He does drive and he needs all the space he can get to get his ramp out so he can get out because he is strapped to a wheel chair.

So if any of you park in a handicap spot be prepared to be humiliated by a note to your window or a  ticket and fine! Please think of those that truly need that spot because they are doing the best they can with the limitations they have. Whether they are handicap physically or mentally you will never know how hard it is until you are in their shoes.