SUMMERSIDE
ROSS MAIR
The Journal Pioneer
You might want to think twice before judging who’s parked next to the mall door.
Greg Quigley was the recipient of such a judgment recently when he went into the Waterfront Shopping Centre for his groceries.
Quigley, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was in a handicapped parking spot. He emerged from the mall to find a note pinned under his windshield wipers.
It read: “What’s your handicap? Stupid or lazy?”
“At first I thought it was a joke,” he said. A little while later, he started to get angry about the message.
First diagnosed in 1996 with the condition, it wasn’t until 2000 Quigley felt the need to obtain a pass to park closer to shops and businesses.
“You wouldn’t know how it feels to get out of your car, walk away, and not remember where you parked.
“I felt stupid,” he said.
Quigley just wishes people would be more understanding that disabled people like himself may not always look the part.
“If the person who wrote that had the brains to match their ignorance, they wouldn’t have put it on my car.”
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