Protecting Your Parking Spot!

   Protecting one's parking spot is a lot like
protecting one's home!
   I can remember people putting chairs out
in front of their homes to preserve their
spot till they got home. You're not suppose to
do that of course because it's a "Public street."
  Of course they'd tell anyone who asked they
were expecting a delivery of coal.
   That could seem somewhat suspicious......
especially when you knew the people had oil
heat!
    The chairs showed up again in the winter.
 Along with boxes, garbage cans, or anything
else that could be used to save a parking spot
that had just been cleared of snow!
    Now, however, you don't need a chair, or
a box, or a garbage can!
    You just need a "Handicapped Sign."
    You'd expect to see a sign like that at
the home of someone who is wheelchair
bound. But you don't have to be completely
disable to qualify for a Handicapped Card."
     You can get them for your car with a
doctor's OK on a State application. That gives
you the privilege of using the Handicapped
spots at the grocery store  or your local
McDonald's.
    But some communities will also preserve
the spot right in front of your home by
setting up a "Handicapped Parking Sign."
    I drove down one street in Wilkes-Barre
yesterday where there were nearly as many
reserved handicapped spaces as there were
houses!
      I kind of felt bad for the few houses
that don't have a reserved spot!  I guess those
home owners have to battle the mailman or
pizza delivery boy for those few spots.
      And then you've got to wonder how much
of the mail or how many pizzas are going to
the homes with the reserved spots?
       Streets like that may eventually have to
set aside a couple of spaces for "Visitors!"
       Hope you've got a garage or drive way
and that all you're NEWS is good!