Disabled Parking

Richard Deight asks why the disabled get reserved parking spaces (letter, Sept. 28). Speaks a man who never tried to cross a parking lot on crutches, or remove a wheelchair from a car parked between two others in a standard parking space. Or suffered from any of the many ailments that make walking more than a few yards feel like running a marathon, right when your doctor has told you not to exert yourself.

Yes, there are “irrelevant” entitlements out there, but handicapped parking is not one of them. Why not do as I do and be grateful you can walk across the entire parking lot?

KATHRYN E. SHAPERO

Los Angeles