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[tsh3406]

With everyone all bent out of shape about folk using handicapped spots, I thought I'd share this. It would seem someone was a little pissed off at how I used an UNdesignated parking area, lol....


Tim

Edited by tsh3406, 05 January 2012 - 05:46 PM.

[kathy.k]

tsh3406, on 05 January 2012 - 03:27 PM, said:

With everyone all bent out of shape about folk using handicapped spots, I thought I'd share this. It would seem someone was a little pissed off at how I used an UNdesignated parking area, lol....


Tim

[Spinner]

I really wish I could post a gigantic eye roll, what a complete jerk. I am guessing you drive a van with a life and it boggles the mind to think the person who wrote that note failed to notice this.

A couple of weeks ago we were out to dinner and parked in the handicapped spot in front with room to drop the lift. There was no one in in the handicapped spot on the other side of the space to drop the lift, but as we pulled in my husband noted that the guy in the regular spot next to that handicapped spot was slightly over the line. Since he noticed that, we left the doors open and the lift partly down hoping the person who parked there would notice it. When we finished dinner we came to the lot to find that the person who parked in the second handicapped spot was so far over that there wasn't enough room for my husband to get in the van. Since he drives from his chair and it is quite a production to change things around, we waiting for 20 minutes in freezing weather for the car's owner to finish their dinner and leave the restaurant. When they walked out (neither was using a chair, cane, walker, and both appeared able-bodied) and I mentioned that we had been waiting since they were so far over the line, they got mad at me. The woman blamed the car next to her for being on the line and called me a bitch for mentioning anything. I just shook my head as we drove away.

Hey, maybe it was the same person who left that lovely note!

[tsh3406]

Spinner, on 05 January 2012 - 03:44 PM, said:

I really wish I could post a gigantic eye roll, what a complete jerk. I am guessing you drive a van with a life and it boggles the mind to think the person who wrote that note failed to notice this.

No, it's a 4 wheel drive truck, but like your van, it takes up a little extra room. I suspect that they didn't like how I just made my own spot wherever it fit, lol.... (not in an actual parking spot)

[Spinner]

tsh3406, on 05 January 2012 - 04:10 PM, said:

Spinner, on 05 January 2012 - 03:44 PM, said:

I really wish I could post a gigantic eye roll, what a complete jerk. I am guessing you drive a van with a life and it boggles the mind to think the person who wrote that note failed to notice this.

No, it's a 4 wheel drive truck, but like your van, it takes up a little extra room. I suspect that they didn't like how I just made my own spot wherever it fit, lol.... (not in an actual parking spot)

LOL, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt! You gotta park where you gotta park!

[Kwag_Myers]

tsh3406, on 05 January 2012 - 03:27 PM, said:

With everyone all bent out of shape about folk using handicapped spots, I thought I'd share this. It would seem someone was a little pissed off at how I used an UNdesignated parking area, lol....


Tim

So that was you then? The black part is the parking lot, the white part is the SIDE WALK!

[wheelie182]

You should cross out asshole and correct it with arsehole! Hahahahahahahahahah, That'll make 'em feel stupid ;)


...Wait no, that won't work

[Aparr]

Saw a handicap van parked in a regular spot bc there were no handicap spots available. They were parked sorta diagonal in a regular spot. They put a small cone out with a handicap sticker on it. They were parked at the bottom of the lot but I thought it was a great idea. Now I want to steal a big orange cone from the state, lol. I don't know where I would get one other then the state.

[dreamerr]

Don't bother I take two spots on lots of occasions and my car is marked with both a plate and wheelchair sign for access and they spit, scratch, move mirrors and do all kinds of nice stuff to my car. I figure it isn't even worth my effort anymore. I just go through the stores loudly cursing in the air hoping the fake handicaps by old, fat and lazy will hear and maybe get a heart.

I do comment when riding by them in the lot in my chair as well when they are jogging to the store but they really don't care. My favorite the other day was a real estate agent decal car...if you are that handicapped how do you show houses all day and do the walk throughs? She was the one that was actually almost jogging she walked so fast to the store. Another good one was the lady who parked at home depot and put her bible on the dash then put the place card up and also walked at a pretty quick speed to the store hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[KayDub]

LOL!!!!!!! Like I said on your facebook post, I'm a big note leaving person. But I'd only leave a note like this if you parked across 4 handicap spots unnecessarily. I like to try to leave a reason you're parking like an asshole though! My fiance gets mad at me for leaving novel length notes on cars (just like I leave novel length posts here). I just can't help myself!

[edlee]

Notes don't help. It's not like these people "forgot" what the blue lines and the signs mean. They saw the signs and parked there anyway.

As for parking in two spots,,, ya gotta expect the worst,, cause you're sure gonna get it.
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[KayDub]

I don't know if they help but I like to think some people do it because they don't think people notice or care. When they get called out for it, be it in person or on a note, they realise someone is watching them and judging them. Like I said, some people don't care but some people do. It's usually the difference between people who smile or laugh and drive off when you go to approach them in person (like the time I had to wait for 20 min to park in the only spot I could use on campus and the girl laughed and drove off), they wouldn't respond to a note. But then there's people who get shaken up when you approach them (like the guy who came to his car with coffee while I was getting out of mine, I told him I was noticing his nice handicap placard and he started stuttering and getting shook up, he said something about his car being broken and I made a joke about my legs being broken and he got even more flustered and apologetic and drove off) and I think notes resonate with them. Plus, it helps me blow off some steam!