First instance of ACTUAL nonsensical parking experience.
There are lot of things said here tongue-in-cheek and a lot of passionate responses. But after all is said and done the gist of it is, let the police do what they do and don’t go all citizens arrest. If the perp keeps not showing her placard eventually the cops will notice and put a ticket on her windshield.
Bolding mine.
I actually do agree that the assumption you held up the line was uninformed, but given your OP I’m not sure you have any particular authority when it comes to “the audacity of idiotic assumptions,” so I thought you might want to step back from that statement.
You made an awful lot of assumptions about the people in your parking-lot drama. IMHO, you handled the situation boorishly.
That really depends on your POV. There might be some girl out there telling a bunch of friends about a surreal experience at the Rite-Aid with some guy that just wouldn’t stop bugging her about her placard.
Just occurred to me. Another way to handle it would have been to nicely tell the perp she is risking getting towed.
The changing of quotes within quote tags is against the rules. Do not do this again.
edited to add: I was mistaken in thinking that the emboldened parts were added. Sorry.
Since when is it against the rules to bold quoted parts to draw attention to certain parts of the quote? I have never seen this behavior modded before.
ETA: Not being snide, this is a serious question. People do this all the time.
OK, you’re right that he spoke first and did not need to. So, I’ll back off from saying that it was inevitable.
I do not believe this is true. I expect the police, had they happened to have been driving by, since the passenger was in the car, would have asked her if she had a placard, and directed her to hang it up when she produced it, but wouldn’t have given a ticket since she was able to produce it right then.
I’m willing to be corrected by actual (or former) police officers.
I had a student with an artificial leg from the knee down. He would park in the handicapped spot then rollerblade to class. Someday I hope the OP will get to meet him, as I’m sure hilarity will be the outcome.
You are a mensch.
You’ve shown a strong tendency of making your own assumptions about people’s behavior evidenced by your OP. I’d be careful throwing that idiotic label around, glass houses and all.
Why I oughtta…
Ah hell, even I had a hard time following what I was doing there. 
Most diplomatic and effective suggestion so far! +1.
Since I live in the same county as the OP, I also want to point out that the city of Flint (specifically the notorious crime-ridden parts of it) comprises a very, very small percentage of the land area. IIRC, where he lives is a pretty genteel, nice, semi-rural community east of Flint. A lot of this county is upscale and most is as safe as anywhere.
Confronting someone in this county doesn’t generally mean you’re taking your life in your hands.
/combatting ignorance and stereotypes.
So you held up the cashier, made her scan other people’s items around yours. Plus, made her wonder if you were ever really coming back for your items and when to call the stocker so she can do her job properly?
Tsk.
I think most people were commenting on jamie’s confronting the woman again when she had initially responded in what he referred to a hostile and violent manner. Is the Flint area perceived as particularly dangerous?
I know - but at least two commenters specifically mentioned Flint.
No, it’s not dangerous if you’re a regular person doing regular-type activities. It’s almost always in the top three as far as homicides and some other crimes in the US, though. But that’s a fairly discrete part of the city and the demographics that are affected directly are fairly narrow.
The county as a whole is pretty nice and has some really upscale small cities and a lot of rural/semi rural areas.
Yeah, it’s weird stuff. I got married in Davison (outside of Flint) and my husband is from Grand Blanc (again, outside of Flint.) Genesee County, on the whole, is about as white bread as it gets.
But jamie kept saying he was in Flint. If he was truly in Flint, I wouldn’t be starting any trouble there (well, I wouldn’t be starting any trouble anywhere, but that’s just me.)
Its not Obama’s number you need, its jamiemcgarrys.
He lives in Davison, far as I know. Pretty white bread, small town America, as you say! Where Michael Moore of Roger and Me fame was born and raised, actually. (Although he sometimes pretends to be from Flint.)
The Hurley Health & Fitness center that the op used to belong to is in Flint, though.
I don’t park in handicapped spaces unless I have a handicapped passenger (occasionally, as I’m a caregiver), then I have to leave a handwritten note that says “Handicapped passenger” on the dash. I once had a meter cop ask me about it, but only to clarify that I didn’t have a tag at all, just a handicapped person who needed to be near the door who, incidentally, did not have a tag at all as she didn’t have a car. The officer was fine with it.
Otherwise, I leave the handicapped space to those who need it and assume the best of people who park there. I can’t imagine presuming to demand proof of need from anyone, because if anyone (aside from a police officer or property manager) demanded proof from me, I wouldn’t even engage them, because1. it is NOT their business., and 2. you don’t know who the hell you’re dealing with when you get confronted in a parking lot. You can like it or not like it, but no one has the right to demand proof except the cops.
I’d also second or third the idea that Youngish Lady could have had something that justified a tag and intended you to understand when she pointed to the affected ankle. Maybe the monitor or whatever was just happenstance.
Be safe out there, Jamie…some people are not just rude, but dangerous. 
You can be an activist without being a crusader.