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    #16
    i was questioned once and told them (a youngish looking lady) that i had been drinking and needed a coser spot! when i came out, the police were already there awaiting an explanation! imagine our (hers and mine) surprise when we found out that we both had ms!!!!!!!!! needless to say we were both laughing over my remark.
    the policeman didn`t think i was very funny!!!!
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      #17
      How about the other side of the coin.
      People who DO park in the HC parking and certainly don't need it! They are using someone elses card or whatever. (Like I said we have our drivers license picture on ours now so you can tell).

      Oh and how about those people at walmart or malls that use the electric carts and they certainly do NOT need them! So there are none for those of us that DO.
      Not all of us can get a free scooter from the scooter store.
      That is what gets me going.
      Then they get up and walk on out of the store with no assistance what-so-ever.
      That is when I think to myself being fat or lazy doesn't make you handicapped.
      But my mama raised me right. I can THINK it, I just can't SAY it.

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        #18
        LOL, good one Hunterd!

        I have never gotten crap even though I think I look reasonably healthy.
        I not sure why, maybe it’s that people are nicer in the Midwest or maybe I don’t look as good as I think.

        Anyway I thought about it just in cast it does happen, and I think what I would say is that “Me, my doctor and the State of Illinois disagrees with your assessment.”

        I do often think I should place some kind on MS bumper stickers on my car, but then again I’m not a bumper stickers person.
        Give life meaning, live life by the 9 Noble Virtues.

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          #19
          But then again, it would be better not to fight rude with rude. Perhaps saying something like, "Thank you for trying to protect these parking spaces for someone who really needs them. Unfortunately for me, I am one of those who really do."
          Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is the presence of God.
          Cut aspartame from my diet in 2012 and my symptoms have slowly disappeared. Interesting!
          Alpha Lipoic Acid (200 mg) + Acetyl L-carnitine (1,000 mg) = No more fatigue for me!

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            #20
            I do not have the ability to use the HC parking, yet. I'm sure the time will come, I hope not all to soon though.
            I do not know what I will say when someone does say something to me, I'm sure it will happen.
            I just wanted to share. My parents and I were at Hy-Vee eating lunch. This is their usual hang out, old people and coffee you know...lol
            When a young mother and her children pulled up and parked in a HC stall. My mother instantly got enraged about the lady parking there and insisted she must be using someone elses placard. I just stopped her mid gripe and said...."Mom" and pointed at myself, I said "Someday I may need on of those, do I LOOK like I do?".. I asked her to then not judge by looks because we have no idea what it is that she is feeling that we cannot see. My mother understood and stopped complaining.
            On the other hand I do actually know a person that uses her mothers placard when she gos to the store just so she doesn't have to walk, yet complains to me that she has put on weight and also that she has no time to exercise, then 5 minutes later tells me she is going to take a nap. Some people are just lazy.
            DX 10/26/11

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              #21
              I have never had a problem (yet) when using a handicapped space, and I use my placard all the time. But if you see me get out of my car, there is no doubt that I have a disability!

              If someone would confront me, my reply would be "I'd like for you to walk in my shoes for just 1 day and see if you would want to park in the "back forty!"

              MS had made my walking "hell on earth", and I have no patience for stupid people. Now this is coming from a gal that is normally easy going and fun!!

              Scooter- love your answer "well, you don't look stupid either!"

              Hunter- you are so funny!!!!!!

              Tommylee- those are great answers!!

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                #22
                I think the crabby people who fuss have the intelligence of my niece when she was around 5 years old. They were looking for a parking spot and she couldn't understand why they couldn't park in a handicapped space. It was explained that those spaces were reserved for handicapped folks, to which she replied, "Those handicapped people have all the luck!"

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                  #23
                  I love these comebacks! I don't have a HC card or anything but I've had several periods of temporary disability where I could have used one.

                  Bubba, I don't understand why you're judging people who don't appear to need scooters, HC parking, etc. If they genuinely don't need it and are just being lazy then yes, it's a problem. But if you assume that just because they don't "look sick," then you're the type of person that everyone else in this thread is complaining about!
                  2001: 1st 2 relapses, "probable MS." 2007: 3rd relapse. Dx of RRMS confirmed by MS specialist. Started Cpx. (Off Cpx Feb 08-Mar 09 to start a family; twins!) Dec '09: Started Beta. Oct '13: Started Tecfidera. May '15: Considering Gilenya.

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                    #24
                    Originally posted by rdmc View Post
                    It was explained that those spaces were reserved for handicapped folks, to which she replied, "Those handicapped people have all the luck!"
                    Children are wonderful!

                    I have done HC parking a very long time and for me, the comments, looks, ect just isn't a big deal anymore...I simply don't care what others may or may not think of where I park and why.

                    In early October my husband and I went to the Kansas Speedway for a weekend of NASCAR. All 3 days you were required to show proof of registration for the HC Placard.

                    If you didn't have the registration to go along with the placard you didn't get to park in the HC parking area. Awesome!
                    Diagnosed 1984
                    “Lightworkers aren’t here to avoid the darkness…they are here to transform the darkness through the illuminating power of love.” Muses from a mystic

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                      #25
                      Snoopy - what registration are you talking about ? Is it your vehicle registration, or something that came with your placard ?

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                        #26
                        Loved your ansers. Made me laugh.

                        I do not always use mine either and i sometimes get wierrd looks, but I usually ignore them. Many times when I go out, i have my cane a d usually I do when
                        I use the handicpped spot, but you get the looks when you take the shopping cart to the car until the groceries get loaded and you have to use your cane again.

                        When my dd drives me, we never use the handicapped spots, she just drops me off. When my dh ripped up his knoww we both used it, but he also drops me off and I just wait for them. I feel like a 13 year old waiting for my ride. haha

                        JudtySz

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by cosake View Post
                          Snoopy - what registration are you talking about ? Is it your vehicle registration, or something that came with your placard ?
                          A handicap placard comes with a paper registration much like the vehicle registration.

                          By law, the placard registration must be carried by the person whom the placard is registered to when in use. If requested you do need to show proof of registration for the placard.
                          Diagnosed 1984
                          “Lightworkers aren’t here to avoid the darkness…they are here to transform the darkness through the illuminating power of love.” Muses from a mystic

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by tommylee View Post
                            #1. You don't look handicaped... response- Thanks! You don't look stupid!
                            #2 Get away from me and shut your mouth before I call the police and charge you with harrasment.
                            #3 Is there a cure for ignorance?
                            #4 Obviously I have a problem with my legs or I would have kicked you in the nuts for being so rude.

                            Then there are many other ones that I cannot post here because they are too nasty.

                            MS can rob us of our quick wit but if you prepare your snappy answers ahead of time you can have some fun with it.
                            LOL...too funny.

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                              #29
                              LOL all of your replies gave me a good laugh!

                              Yeah, I've gotten the, "You don't look handicapped!" I think I'm going to say, "And you don't look like a physician." or "Oh, I didn't realize that MS had a look" and walk off.

                              I guess my issue is that I feel bad using it, but when I know I'm going to need it, say after grocery shopping and I've used my energy stores up, I'm so glad I have it. I've also found that the cold temperatures flare up my symptoms like crazy, so I use it on the really cold days.

                              When I was in the middle of my flare and could barely lift myself because of the fatigue and steroid side effects, I made a shirt that said "MS FLARE, PASS ON THE LEFT" with a big arrow. Nobody gave me crap when I wore that!

                              Perhaps I will make a sticker for my back window...
                              Diagnosed Aug. 2011 - Currently on Tysabri

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                                #30
                                There are so many great answers. I'm going to print this post so I can remember them next time.

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