Observation

Noticed something the other day:  Most cars parked in the handicapped spot are pretty high-end.  Most of them are American cars.  Lots of Cadillacs.  Most are Cadillacs.  Lots of vans and SUV's.  Never a late 90's Accord DX (I state this because up until a few years ago 33% of my family and friends drove this vehicle).  Some of the cars have nice rims, gold or chrome accents, top of the line editions.  At least enough for me to notice.  How is this possible?  The people who I know that are on disability barely scrape by every month.  My family is able to use a disabled placard when we transport and park with my grandfather in the car.  But he has an old Volvo. 

I find myself curious about the lives of these people.  I can't imagine what traumatic and life altering accident or ailment they went through to become handicapped.  I feel bad that they are not able to go through life as the rest of us.  I feel myself watching them when they exit their cars, trying to put together clues as to how they A) became handicapped, B) climbed the American Car Dream.  I wonder how they end up all getting the same car, fashioned in the same style.  Chrome, lots of tinted windows.  Always leather.  How does handicapped equal chrome rims on a Cadillac?  Someone explain this.

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Update 2/14/08:  I need to add 5 series BMW and Mercedes Benz to this category.  I hadn't accounted for the varience once the observation was moved to suburbia.  After market wheels and rims, tinted windows, chrome, leather and top of the line editions still apply.