Gosh we wouldn’t want fully ambulatory lazy as F shoppers to be inconvenienced while picking up booze and QVC, right?

This is a total pet peeve. Especially when it’s not a far walk to regular parking spaces. In Frazer at Lincoln Court shopping center, it’s a particular pet peeve because you have older shoppers from the grocery store who park in the legitimate spots, including handicap spots who nearly get hit because these people parking in the fire lanes and on the sidewalk block site lines. and yes, East Whiteland Police ticket all of the time.

Now another place where they do it, and this one young woman was caught this morning. Doing it with an empty parking lot around her. I am talking about the Wawa in Malvern Borough.

The woman who got out of the car was like 20s or 30s and the parking lot was empty. And she didn’t have a limp or a cast or was escorting an older person out or getting a giant order she couldn’t possibly carry.

Just lazy meets entitled.

This is as bad as the people who are not handicapped who park in handicap spaces.

My favorite handicap parking. Space story was many years ago. Circa 2010 in the Acme parking lot in Bryn Mawr.

I had just pulled in to do some grocery shopping and a teenager with an elite private school sticker on the back of what was probably his father‘s car pulled into the handicap parking. Space that was right there in the front by the door. I looked at the kid and I said where’s your handicap placard. And he looked at me and sneered and said “well, why would I listen to you? You look like you’re driving your net worth in that old Jeep.”

I love a good misplaced sense of entitlement. I also love the fact that police used to frequently drive-by the Acme day and night because it was so easy to get a ticket written because there’s always somebody who wasn’t handicapped parking in a handicap spot.

And I see the abusers of handicap parking spaces as well as fire lane parking often in places like downtown Wayne along N. Wayne Ave. and in the parking lots behind some of the shops. And it’s always funny in Wayne because the meter attendants seem to see the expired meters, but they don’t seem to see the people who aren’t handicapped parking in handicap spots, etc.

I don’t understand why people have to park in fire lanes and handicap spots. I especially don’t understand it when there’s usually plenty of parking close enough by and there’s no legitimate reason for doing this. It’s just laziness or entitlement.

It’s also wrong.

Rant over.