Ok, so do you include yourself in the group that has concluded that I am wrong in thinking that the cop shouldn’t have asked “how I was disabled”? Especially in light of the fact that I had a valid placard and a current driver’s license readily available for the officer to use to establish my legality? Yes, no? Again, I made no issue of it at the scene; I thanked the officer for enforcing such spots.
What do you mean? You don’t think that post shows what I said it did? That she referred to someone that she called a “good friend” in one thread, an “acquaintance” in this one? ??
Bolding in sienna above mine.
So what’s your point, here? You trying to make me out to be a liar, or what? I haven’t lied, prevaricated, obfuscated or been sly or dishonest. So your ploy, whateverit is, ain’t working. At most you’re calling me out on a distinction between “acquaintance” and “used to be a really close friend but because of recent events I prefer to refer to this person as an aquaintance.” Which is merely an effort to clarify my present relationship with this individual.
And this has what, precisely, to do with your OP (original post)? Precisely, nothing.
Would it have been better if I’d clarified “two really close friends and one used-to-be-close friend except because of her weird and destructive relationship with her older, druggie son and his skanky girlfriend she is now an acquaintance”? This would have tipped everything in your favor, right? :rolleyes:
No, I’m just showing a trend. A trend to bend truths and bend prior statements, in order to have them retroactively fit with whatever you (general you) are currently hating. Of course this wasn’t a huge detail, but it just goes to show that you have no real integrity.
Read my previous posts. I explained why I thought what I did. And so did plenty of other people regarding their opinions and reasoning.
Or did you just read mine and other people’s posts as something like “Jamie bad, Jamie always bad and wrong. Grog not like Jamie”?
Not liking or agreeing with other people’s reasoning is not the same as them not actually giving any reasoning and them just not liking you “because” (which seems to be your implication here).
M’OK- and this tendency of mine to bend truth and lack integrity :rolleyes: 
is relative to your OP how, again?
I didn’t implicate every single poster with my remarks. If that’s what you took my comments for, I’m sorry. But there is no denying the fact that some do.
When you ask me why I’m not responding to your posts, this is why. I feel they are loaded, and frankly hateful.
Then go through this thread and say how many gave reasons and how many didn’t give any.
IMO the first number is going to be pretty high and the second is going to be pretty low. I am done for the night.
I never said everyone who gave reasons why I was wrong did so genuinely and without malice, you skipped something there.
All I said was I didn’t say everyone who was responding to this thread was being an ass. And not everyone who was disagreeing with me was doing so simply because they didn’t like me. But those who do dislike me can still come up with reasons why I’m wrong. That’s what I meant when I said “the disagreement comes first, and the reasons why come later”.
Y’all want to make it personal, fine, I’ll move this to the Pit for you.
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
Yay! Things are about to get fun!
- When did Jaimie do the name change? (and why - I thought he was on record as saying something about the stupidity of not using your real name here?)
- Why is it that after 5 posts or so in this thread I wanted to check and see if Ambivalid was Jaimie under a different name?
- To me, “waving the placard out the window” is straight away rude and disrespectful behaviour - so the first strike would go against Jaimie. You really expect a cop to see a waving placard and let you be after he has “lit you up”?
- I’m not seeing anything wrong with “what’s your handicap” - shit, you’re a young, muscle bound guy in a sports car - most people are going to assume you are not handicapped, unless they see you in your chair. The officer was only confirming that the placcard was yours.
Well, one could argue that, having a visibly displayed valid placard would ensure a little bit of security to the driver that they aren’t going to be “light up” when they are parked in a handicap spot. So upon seeing such a thing happen, I don’t think it was that outrageous of me to then roll my window down and wave the placard a bit in front of his car.
Fuckin arse.
I call people different things depending upon my mood at the moment - you really don’t have anything better to do than call a person a liar about the difference between friend and acquiantance in different threads?
Jamie - How stoned were you during this encounter?
Yeah - and if he really had been “lighting you up” for something other than the placard? And you really expect him to read the waving placard from within his car and let you be?
And a placard provides “security”?
And how would you like him to check that it was really you that is supposed to be using the placard? If he had kept you sitting there while he ran the license and everything would you have been happy then?
And further - you do know that you don’t appear disabled right? And the car you’re driving is unusal for a crippled person - all of which would add up to “articuable suspiscion” to me - (although I am not a laywer).
It’s pretty easy - well he was driving a low slung sports car, which is unusal for a person with a disability, and he had the obvious musculature of a very fit young man, which led me to think that perhaps the placard wasn’t his - so I asked about his handicap to find out more information.
But, haven’t a great many posts on this thread been about idiot friends and family members illegally using someone else’s placard? And plenty of others (myself included) know those idiots but didn’t post about them, since that point had already been made? And aren’t you personally outraged when one of those limited number of handicap-accessible parking spots is taken by one of those idiots?
So why would you be upset that the officer was diligent in checking to make sure that YOU weren’t one of those idiots?
Another point: I have read this post and your replies, and have previously skimmed other posts of yours, and notice a trend (and this is not a criticism, nor am I saying that I see this 100% of the time.) Your general habit seem to be (1) post OP, asking for opinions. (2) Ignore responses that may be valid, but are presented politely and disagree with your general opinion. (3) Respond vehemently (and not always politely) to posters who don’t agree with you and who aren’t as tactful as you’d prefer. So I have a question: Are you looking for opinions, or are you looking for validation of your opinions? (Serious question. It may save some people the time they waste posting thoughtful responses to your questions.)
You know, there’s likely going to be one dick cop in an entire police force. I’ll bet that cop is a dick to everybody, not just you. Do what I do, let the cop do his thing, let him leave, hiss “dick!” under your breath and get on with life. People without handicapped placards take shit from cops on occassion too. I think you’ve become too attached to feeling angry and wronged.
While it was kind of rude, I don’t see how this is much different than a cop checking to see if a car is really yours or if your DL is really you in the picture or running your stuff to make sure you didn’t have an outstanding warrant.