See this is what I’m saying; doing what again; being in the same vicinity as illegally parked cars? Well, yeah, that’s sort of the issue; I find myself in the vicinity quite often and it’s just through the normal course of my day. Because that is the only similarity between the two incidents.
Third (bried stint at PlanetFitness) :eek:
Ok, so you’d agree that it wasn’t deserved in this particular situation?
making illegal parking your business.
It’s a part of my life. I can’t not “make it my business”.
And this is what I mean: I am being told to ignore the issue when I see it. Anything more than ignoring illegal parking when I see it is “busybody” “vigilante parking lot police man” douchebaggery that no one is going to tolerate. Geez, there used to be a time when the decent, peaceful law-breakers around here could violate their hearts-out and no one would give 'em a hard time." “Til that asshole in the wheelchair came to town and started asking mean questions to those nice people like about why they’re taking “their” spots and junk.” “Stupid cripple.”
OK. and… what exactly? If it’s part of your life then accept the consequences.
It’s been suggested you ignore it because you seem bothered by the reaction you get from people as the result of the fact that you can’t not make it your business.
Um, yeeeaah, and you-internet stranger-are a better judge of what happened at my gym than I am. Just because I haven’t been able to fully convey what had gone down at that gym, the totality of the circumstances and the personalities involved, doesn’t mean that the conclusions reached by some here are valid. I am not trying to re-hash that bullshit but suffice to say it was not a black-and-white case (I basically am arguing that the manager at my former gym used the incident in the parking lot as a pretext for getting rid of me; me being a highly-functioning paraplegic athlete who presented vexing accessibility, equipment and opportunity challenges that she could not meet as a professional). THAT is what I am basing my suit (non-monetarily based) on.
And that second quote, “Considering that you’ve been…”, what are you talking about, specifically? 
When did “playing parking lot cop” get me thrown out of my wheelchair? I honestly do not know what you are referring to.
That was my all time favorite.
We only know what you told us. That’s all we can judge from. I also remember you complaining that this so-called equipment that was simply something extra that the gym didn’t have, and weren’t required to purchase. Or was that the time they asked you NOT to misuse certain equipment with your wheelchair push-ups?
We can only judge you by what you told us, so if we have the “wrong idea”, the problem isn’t on our end.
Why would I judge this situation from the blinders-on perspective that you insist on? Maybe you were being dickish, maybe you weren’t. Maybe this was just one more datum in a pattern of dickishness.
This is the way I look at it. A guy came out of the gym and saw you doing something that seemed remarkable enough for him to ask whether there was a problem. At that point you asked him if that was his car. I can easily see how this kind of an interaction can seem aggressive, intrusive, and dickish. You’re basically asking a stranger if he’s breaking the law, when he has nothing to do with the situation; it’s not even his car. So it very well might have seemed dickish. The guy in that situation has a better perspective to judge than we on this board do.
Take pictures of the offending car(s) and create a fb page.
Is this in Grand Blanc?
Of course it’s not for me to say - none of the crap on here is for any poster to say - we’ve never met you before. 
I do get that body building has improved your confidence, and provided a positive experience for you. I just think, In My Humble Opinion, that athletics would do as well, and to a greater degree. Well, maybe not to a greater degree, but in a different way. There are aspects of athletics that I think you would enjoy and be good at, based only on your posts on this board. Of course, I’m pulling it out of my ass - for all I know you’re a dog that learned to type. 
That’s a pretty astonishing–and depressing–pair of statements. I can believe those opinions are, however, widely held. You see evidence of it in other kinds of examples all the time.
So is this:
I was calling the idea stupid, not you. The idea had been suggested ad nauseum by several posters. They’re not stupid–I just judge that idea to be stupid.
I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings so deeply. I hope you’ll accept my explanation above and not carry the sting in your heart anymore.
– tapu
Jamie, have you ever considered getting a job with parking enforcement? It would be perfect for you.
Brilliant!
Are you trying to blow the cover off the irony meter today?
I’m not sure what you think is astonishing about the statements. Ambivalid said that it’s impossible for him to resist the behavior. There are consequences associated with it. The consequences are predictable. There appears to be a mental disconnect between the idea that it’s legal/moral to engage in the activity and any negative reactions to it.
Except you are taking the sequence of occurences out of their proper placement here:
This guy didn’t “come out and see me doing something that seemed remarkable enough for him to ask whether there was a problem”, that didn’t happen. This guy simply approached me and I asked him if it was his car, to which he answered “no” and then asked me “what the problem was”. So he didn’t see something occurring that seemed “remarkable enough” to spark that question.
and you feel this clarification means… what?
what is it about your busybody activity that you feel doesn’t deserve the reaction you’re getting?