When I visit KC, the handicap spots always seem to be taken. I guess they give away those placards like candy there. In CA, there are enough open handicap spots to make another parking lot.

I do make it a point to park in the expectant mother parking space. You don't deserve a reserved space because your husband doesn't have the decency to pull out and blast it all over your stomach.

Well, if you fly Southwest, it's open seating and I almost always carry on so I want to make sure I get my bag in the overhead. So get the hell out of my way!

I parked in the expecting mothers parking spot at Hy Vee once. In my defense, the parking lot was basically full and my dad has a beer gut big enough to be considered pregnant.

Does this count?

It's two things for me:

1) To make sure that I get overhead space.

2) I'm usually asleep before the wheels are up.

Seems like a clever idea.

People fake disabilities all the time. I would think this might happen fairly often.

I'm so glad to see how many of you think this is low, low behaviour.

I have a huge issue with this; my 13 year old son has been in a wheelchair since he became too big to carry and I could go on for hours; please forgive my rant, but...

...at a little league game a few years ago, with my handicapped son there, another family told my wife and I how clever they were at Disneyland because they had their son put an old cast on his leg (wrapped an ace bandage around it) and got a free wheelchair and got to go to the front of the lines...how they beat the system...they sat there like we should be impressed. I'm not usually too aggressive, but I said "You're fucking kidding me, right?" Then they clued in to where I was coming from and clammed up...unbelievable.

I see people ALL THE TIME parking in handicapped spots when they're not; they often have the placard, but because of a handicapped relative or whatever and they just love to gobble those spaces up...like it's a magic card that gives them entitlement even when not needed. It's epidemic. Whatever happened to a little dignity and pride? My dad is 90 and he refuses to park in the handicapped spaces, and although he walks with a cane, he insists he's not handicapped. The spaces are great; they are truly a needed item for many people, but the abusers I can't stand...and every once in a while, I share my thoughts with them.

It's supply and demand, man. They supply more handicap spaces, we will supply more handicapped people.

I'm trying to remember the last time I saw somebody get into or out of a car in a handicapped spot who was actually handicapped, without success. It seems that in a typical parking lot, there are 20 or so handicapped spots, occupied by three cars, and not a wheelchair in sight. One day I saw a guy in a new Corvette park in one of the spots. He certainly didn't seem crippled, and I can't imagine getting in or out of a CORVETTE would be particularly easy for any passenger who might be. ****ing prick.

IMO, if there isn't a handicapped person in the car, you should NOT be able to park in those spaces. And the number of spots should reduced by at least half.

Maybe they were mentally handicapped.

Wrong; more handicapped spots, more a-holes looking to score.

Morally handicapped more likely...

being young and single I will roll the dice every once in awhile getting a ticket. To pay to play.

I once faked an orgasm so I could go to sleep. Is that the same thing?