My husband pointed out to me the “how rude” of today’s newspaper and how it’s happened to us many times.

“Beth Soliz rushed to her son’s school (he has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair) because he was having a seizure. She parked her van in a handicapped spot that had a ramp access space beside it, then watched in dismay as a car pulled into the marked slot. When Soliz told the driver she needed the space to load her sick son, the woman refused to move her car.”

My son use to go to Suburban Park Elementary and this was an everyday occurrence. People would see my son’s wheelchair, the wheelchair lift in the van and would refuse to move. Once, while I was attending a school function I had a severe asthma attack. People had blocked us in on 3 sides. They announced over the loud speaker for the vehicles to move and of course, not one person did. We had no choice but to wait, while I succeeded in almost dying. There was plenty of times when I would ask people to move, they wouldn’t. I’d call the police and they honestly did not care.

Even though it’s been three years now, I still drive by Suburban Park, daily, and it still irritates the hell out of me how people are still parking not only in the marked slots, but where the actual ramp is to get onto the sidewalk.