# blue spaces & "i'll only be a minute" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866 "2005-12-16T04:44:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/81 "2006-01-18T16:54:43Z")
> [@Mellivora capensis](#): > > Again, what am I misunderstanding? I don’t think you made it clear that the person your friend harassed didn’t have any handicapped plates/tags/stickers, as opposed to bothering someone who merely didn’t “look” handicapped. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/82 "2006-01-18T17:26:57Z")
> [@Mellivora capensis](#): > > :: **Melli** sits here and wonders how he got into this mess:: > **singular1** , you have a “tag”, this friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of mine wouldn’t pull this stunt (which was amusing to me up until now) if you displayed a “tag”. > > Again, what am I misunderstanding? I think the problem is that your post upstream did not specifically state that your friend did not target non-sticker-bearing cars. I was left with the impression that your friend wasn’t as discriminate, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/83 "2006-01-18T17:28:17Z")
See, kids? This is what happens when you don’t submit right away and come back an hour later. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/84 "2006-01-18T18:39:58Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I think you’ll find that people are allowed to park anywhere they want as long as it’s only for a minute and especially if they put their hazard flashers on. Man, when I have some really good car insurance… It’s my dream to find one of these idiots and carefully scrape my vehicle all the way down the side of theirs. Hopefully while they stand there watching, just so that I can get out, scratch my head and say “Gosh, you were right to put those lights on. Turns out it really is hazardous to park there.” ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/85 "2006-01-18T18:43:43Z")
> [@amrussell](#): > > Man, when I have some really good car insurance… It’s my dream to find one of these idiots and carefully scrape my vehicle all the way down the side of theirs. Hopefully while they stand there watching, just so that I can get out, scratch my head and say “Gosh, you were right to put those lights on. Turns out it really is hazardous to park there.” You have reminded me of the actions of a friend of mine. She was a new mother and was walking to the supermarket while pushing the baby in it’s pram. A car was parked almost entirely on the pavement with no driver around - there was enough room to squeeze past but the wing mirror was stopping her pushing the pram through. So she backed up a little, stood in front of the pram and KICKED the wing mirror off! Then calmly collected the pram and continued on her way. Damn right it’s hazardous to park in front of mother-tigers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/86 "2006-01-18T23:26:02Z")
> [@Mellivora capensis](#): > > **singular1** , you have a “tag”, this friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of mine wouldn’t pull this stunt (which was amusing to me up until now) if you displayed a “tag”. > > Again, what am I misunderstanding? You left out that part, and I see that other people mentioned that. And I wasn’t horribly offended…it was, after all, kinda funny. I tend to fly off the handle when people park in the spots without a tag at all. Maybe humor would be easier on my blood pressure! But if I see a tag, I don’t judge, unless I know for a fact that it belonged to Grandma but now she’s dead but the tag is still good so why not use it? I do have one, for fairly visible (though non-wheelchair-using) reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866/87 "2006-01-19T07:32:48Z")
Coolness, all’s well that ends well. 😃 ::wanders off muttering about \*contra proferentum \* and all that :smack: :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-spaces-ill-only-be-a-minute/335866.md?page=4)