re: #166 calochortus

There may be areas here where the charging spots are all taken, but being a liberal hellhole, we have a fair number of chargers around, so people aren’t vying for just a few spots.
They don’t seem to be competing for space with handicapped spaces.

As an aside, I had a handicapped placard for a few years before my knee was replaced. The day I was able to turn in my placard, my whole metric for evaluating a parking spot changed from “Is there a reasonably close space for me that isn’t handicapped in case someone is in worse shape? Do I need to carry things? How do I feel today?” to “How easy is it to get in and out of the parking lot from this space? Is it a nice day to walk just a bit?” I have never been happier to park at a distance from where I’m going. You just don’t realize it until you can’t walk without pain.

Yes, it’s day by day with me as well, there are days I do not use my placard, and days I do. (more of them now, hopefully less later) but with the proliferation of privileged parking spaces (handicapped, charging, mother to be, local hero, veteran just to name a few…) at the local marts at some point wingnuts gonna whine about no spaces for normie gas drivers no more!