Thanks to NJMVC for handicapped placard

I had the forms since I came home from the hospital. My doctor had signed them. Could have sent them in to MVC but couldn't really focus on it. Kept thinking D. and I would go there one day and just take care of it. Took me more than two months to finally get there early one day last week. The staff was pleasant and helpful and I was only waiting about 10 minutes until they opened the window. Maybe I waited because it is another admission that I am truly sick and can't be working, shouldn't be working. Some days I definitely should not be driving due to fatigue and lack of focus, mental clarity is just not there. So, when I left motor vehicle, I stopped at the post office on my way home. Naturally, there was only one handicapped spot available and as I was pulling in the driveway, a woman a few years older than me pulled into the spot and got out of her car. No handicapped placard or plates. I have to stay that over the more than 35 years I've been driving, since the inception of handicapped spots, I have never, ever parked in one, unless I was with my father when he was ill, or my husband who has a placard for his medical condition. But here I was, my first day with the placard, my first attempt to park in the handicapped spot. So, naturally, I rolled down my window and politely pointed out to the woman that she was parked in a handicapped spot. She just shrugged her shoulders and said she was only mailing a letter. I stated, again politely, that I was handicapped, and she did actually move her car. Unfortunately, I'm sure that is not the first or last time she's done this, but hopefully at some point a cop will see her do it, and ticket her. I am truly grateful to have the placard so I can park close to store and building entrances because I am just too fatigued to be walking long distances. Don't have it in me some days.