Temporary Handicapped card?

[Guest guest]

I was wondering if anyone has a temporary handicapped card that they

can hang in their car dash to use handicap parking when they need

it. I certainly don't need to use handicapped parking all the time,

but there are times that walking from a distance is a real problem.

That proved to be the case at a conference I attended last weekend

at a big university. The venues were spread all over the campus,

and the parking was a long walk from any of them. They did have a

shuttle bus service, but after trying that briefly on the first day,

I found that this was even worse than driving/parking/walking. The

wait for shuttle busses was long, it was very hot and humid, and

there was no plae to sit while waiting for the bus. As a result, I

stayed mostly in the venues that were at least REASONABLY close to a

parking lot, meaning that there were two areas of the conference

that was I never even able to visit at all.

While hoofing all over the place, I noticed that there were unused

handicapped spaces right beside every one of these buildings. It

would have been SO much easier on me if I had been able to use this

parking.

Is it possible to get a placard if you are only disabled part of the

time or in certain circumstances? Does anyone know how you go about

it?