could you clarify that statement please? it seems like you are saying the permits are illegal
I wish they’d do that around here!!!
very cold attitude - i hope you never have need of a blue space to find they’ve been eliminated because of math like yours
Um, wrong. The more blue spots there are, the more people will feel entitled to use them “just for a minute.”
On a note similar to what kanicbird stated how many blue spaces there are seems to be somewhat arbitrary to say the least. At my doctor’s office (4 story medical building) there is a grand total of 2 handicapped spaces.
On the other hand, at the Fed-Ex facility at Portland Airport (PDX) there is something like 10 or 12 handicapped spaces. 
All I can conclude is that in the view of the city planning guys, handicapped people never get sick, but they ship a hell of a lot of stuff via Fed-Ex. Must be Ebay.
Or else they made more spots because people who aren’t handicapped keep stealing them?
Don’t worry.
If she always parks in a close-up handicapped spot to avoid the effort of having to walk a bit, she’ll soon have a real fat ass on her!
I was at a movie theater once, and a sporty red Corvette pulled up into the handicapped space. Two very healthy young people bounced out and trotted on into the theater. As I went through the ticket line I grumbled about it to the manager, who happened to be taking my ticket money. He looked up and around, and asked if the couple were still here. They were, in the concession line. He went over and I could see, but not hear, them speaking. It ended with them storming out, looking very angry.
As I sat in the theater, watching previews, I saw them come in and sit a few rows in front of me, still grumbling loud enough to be overheard. Guess they’d been told to move. Yay, manager!
Don’t you folks realize that non-handicapped people parking in handicapped spots are severely morally handicapped? Have a little compassion, will ya?
I’m just going to assume you were having a bad day and not the total @$$wipe you came off as. I am against people who don’t need them and have obtained the permit through fraud or other means. You know what that means - there will be MORE spaces for little ol’ special YOU.
I hope not either, but what I am saying is that I want ONLY people who need them to get them. I don’t want to elimate them. I want to take away the incentive for people using them who don’t need them by enforcement and fraud investigations -this will allow the reduction if the # of blue spots to the correct number. I think if there are fewer of these spots people will be less willing to cheat, if there are many people will see lots of these spaces unfilled they will tend to park illegally.
I think you ment to state:
Perhaps you can flag down a Mod to make the change.
Now go into the corner and have a time out.
Um I agree with what you said, what’s wrong with it, the more blue spots will result in more abuse, the fewer (to a point) will tend to them being used correctly.
Sure - if you are legally allowed a handicapped permit, but you’re having a good day and are not experiencing any difficulties walking, then you are also not legally allowed to park in a handicapped spot. The handicapped spots are for people who at this exact moment are having difficulties walking.
In other words, if you always have difficulties walking, the spots are always for you. If you have a condition that flares up and subsides, the spots are only for you when your condition is flared up. People are expected to be self-monitoring in this, of course, and we all know how effective that usually is.
New law; handicapped person dies, nobody get their inheritance until the licence plates and tags are returned into the DMV.
Why?
Don’t know his/her reason, but I know I absolutely HATE it when cars follow me – it feels just like being stalked, but by some multi-ton monster. :eek:
I don’t do the ‘block that person so another car gets the spot’ thing though. For one thing, I’d be afraid I’d be setting up the ‘successful’ parker for a nasty and undeserved encounter with the person I’d be blocking.
Instead, when someone starts following me, I cut through the parked cars and use the next aisle. I mean, say I’m parked off the ‘E’ aisle. I leave the mall and start up the E aisle, and some remora attaches him/herself to me. I slip between the cars and start walking up the ‘D’ aisle. Usually the remora goes away for a new victim, but on occasion they will speed down E, zip back towards the store on another aisle, and glue themselves back to me as I walk on D.
If so, I ignore them. I continue down D until near my car, and slip back across. I get in and leave the space normally. Can the remora manage to get to my space before anyone else? Then they win. But usually that only happens if there are no other cars cruising down E – and if there aren’t a lot of cars crusing around, why is this asshole playing remora, huh?
The unintentionally creepy; I think there is a deep down instinctive dislike to being stalked through a parking lot. I usually get a fear/flee/anger reaction when some follows me as I am walking back to my car. I usually ignore it but occasionally I will walk past my car or duck out to another aisle.
Jim
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.
Maybe in the Kingdom of Butter… I know for a fact that doesn’t work in San Francisco. They seem to give people tickets for even thinking of parking somewhere illegally (which explains the signs (“Don’t even think of parking here!”)).
I always think that Karma will “make it so” for those who park in handicapped designated spaces unneccessarily.
Karma will determine that they wish to be physically handicapped (in addition to their obvious mental and moral deficiencies).
Well, my question was not so much- “why don’t you like dudes following you”- since I understand your reason & even empathize a bit. But my question to UncleRojelio was really “Yes, I know they are being annoying to some by doing so- but WHY be a total asshole to someone who has no idea that they have annoyed you?”
Why not try “Pardon me, but something about having a car follow me like you are doing bothers me, I’d prefer you not do it.” ? Or even a few nice hand gestures? Cutting through - you option- is OK also. But sitting there and being angry and losing time seems to be a good way of driving your blood-pressure to a dangerous high.
This (the following) is one reason why I usually like to park out in the far reaches of the parking lot. That way, if somebody does follow me, there are usually a bunch of empty spaces right there for them to take, and I can feel like I have performed a valuable service, like some sort of native guide. “See? Parking spaces! Free!” Usually, however, they just coast on by and dive back into the maelstrom, hunting for that elusive spot that’s fifty feet closer to the door.