Makes note to not drive in VT
Signed, actual handicapped person who frequently cannot shop or whatever because there is never enough handicapped parking in this day and age of a greying USA.
The OP expresses an attitude that exemplifies what is really wrong in America: “It’s all about me. Fuck the lot of you. I will do what I want, when I want, wherever I want.”
Well we face it every day and society seems to survive. People are not convicted for every infraction they are caught for - police, courts, prosecution all use discretion.
Circumstances do matter. In my view the circumstances as outlined do not warrant major concern.
Otara
I’ve already said in this thread that I 100% understand that it is not an argument against a ticket.
Dio, half of the time you’re making bullheaded arguments, you do so despite what the letter of the law says, so I find it bizarre that you come into this thread pointing to what is legal or illegal as a basis for making an argument.
shrug It is.
Not contradictory at all. I find it much easier to imagine well-meaning intentions behind what she said than I do behind posts that are nothing more than name calling based on spurious assumptions about my character.
I know how you feel. Once in a while I have to park on top of schoolchildren at a corner because there’s just not room for us all. And little old ladies? I just can’t get that perfume smell off my bumpers.
I am the anti-America.
:rolleyes:
What the fuck is it about the words “handicapped spot” that makes the insane come out in everyone!?!?
I’ll say it another time (though likely not the last). I harmed/inconvenienced NOT A SINGLE PERSON with my actions as described in the OP. I put no one at risk. How that translates into what you just said is beyond me.
I think its that people see it as a sign of respect not to park there, ie its more that just a pragmatic issue of whether there are ample spaces available.
Otara
The OP reminded me of a former family friend who took the girls in her cheerleading group to NC State for some sort of camp. They got it in their heads that it was OK to park in the handicapped spaces for unloading…$800 later, I think they finally got the idea. For some reason, this former friend thought it was NC State’s fault, and would loudly complain to anyone within earshot. (This is one of many reasons why she’s a former friend.)
I love this postso much.
So park there to unload asshole! I don’t care how “heavy” your shit is, If you cannot carry it another 15 feet then you shouldn’t be doing it at all. There might have been a little bit of sympathy for you before, but when you reveal that you are blocking a handicapped spot to save you 15 feet, then the only conclusion is that you are indeed an incredibly self centered jerkwad.
YOU DON’T KNOW THAT. By your own admission, you were not with your car at all times, so you have no idea what was going on in the lot while you were gone. Add that to the fact that you proudly proclaim that you get away with this all the time, and the odds are that you have prevented some handicapped people from shopping where you are, or caused them pain/discomfort/whatever in order to get to where they were going.
All the justifications in the world are not going to excuse the fact that you parked where you know you shouldn’t simply to save yourself a whole 45 feet. :rolleyes:
See, this is why I think you’re a douchebag. You committed a parking violation. You know it. The lady called you on it. It’s not the crime of the century, and non douchebags would have dropped it right there.
But not you. You drove home in righteous indignation about just how much of a bitch this lady was for calling you on it. So much so that you just had to tell a bunch of strangers about the incident , and are then surprised that a thread with an OP saying “This bitch frowned at me for committing a minor crime” isn’t hugs and kisses. That’s fucking ridiculous. You are an entitled douchebag. Hell buddy, it ain’t her fault, so why start a pit thread about it if you are not the entitled asshole I think you are? Does her “tsk tsking” you wound your ego?
An no, I couldn’t care less about how fucking heavy your amps are. Buy a goddamn handtruck, I’m sure the setup location isn’t right next to the door anyway.
I’m not so sure that solves the problem, there. As you point out, these are still imagined motivations. Even that explanation has problems with it; you’re assuming the assumptions are spurious, and not simply incorrect, which is the same issue.
To be perfectly honest? Yes.
You know how many people I have seen unloading at SCA events, ‘flea’ markets, shopping malls, music venues that do just that? Near as I can figure they think that they will just sort of get the powers that be used to seeing their car there and when they finish offloading they can sneak the trunk shut turn off the lights and leave their cars there.
Asshole needs to get a hand truck. Plain and simple. They even have some that convert from hand truck to push cart.
The people who passed the law that some parking sports should be reserved strictly for the handicapped were undoubtedly strangers telling you how to act too.
Don’t be so sure that that lady was unaffected. My mother has MS and is mostly housebound. Getting out of the house is a rare treat for her. When she tells me that she went through the effort required to load up into the van and go somewhere only to find that no parking was available, I am saddened. When she tells me about seeing some able-bodied jerk illegally parked in a handicapped space, I am pissed off, and when I see similar able-bodied jerks doing the same, even when she is not around, I am reminded and thus affected.
It’s possible that what you did didn’t affect a single handicapped person. But remember this: you’re one of many of people with interest in parking in those spaces that similarly convince themselves that they’re inconveniencing no one. And a lot of them are wrong. Are you? I dunno, but I don’t have much sympathy for you for getting mildly scolded.
I don’t think it’s spurious; I think people are assuming that you’re someone parks illegally in handicapped spots and then make excuses when someone rightly calls you on it.
That’s just not true. In addition to being closer to the building’s entrance, the handicapped spots are wider, and offer room to load and unload wheelchairs, often from specially equipped vehicles with extending, hydraulic platforms that require a minimum clearance, or offer space to assist the disabled person in and out of the vehicle.
Just making sure that there’s a parking spot isn’t enough. A normal parking spot often is not wide enough to allow for the needs of a handicapped person.
I don’t see any difference. Neither appear to be spurious assumptions.