Obnoxious parker
By clrumfelt
@clrumfelt (5490)
United States
December 16, 2012 10:04pm CST
I ride with my elderly uncle a lot, and he gets so mad at people if they don't park the way they should. If someone without a tag parks in a handicap spot, he will go in and tell the manager about them. If someone parks over the line at all, he gets angry about it. Once I was with him and someone had parked a little over in the next lane, and he pulled up in the next parking spot so close to their door that they would not be able to open it to get in. I am afraid he will tick off the wrong person sometime and someone will repay his cantankerousness.
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
17 Dec 12
yep there is a word called road rage and here in Florida where Spring Break is huge everyone gets stupid!
I am a disabled person. When you see me you would not think so. all of my disabilities are not on the outside.
I have been yelled at VARIOUS times for parking in handicap and I always have my permanent handicap sign on my rearview mirror.
This man pulled in with his wife, and soon as he saw me get out of my car to walk in to the a store he started screaming at me. I looked at him and said Sir I am a Vet. I have disabilities you cannot see because I was a medic and wound up doing a lot to mess up my back and muscles.
His wife was with him and trying to get him to backoff of me.
He insisted I was not disabled. Unfortunately I had just come from my doctor and got copies of MRI's that showed Spinal Desinegration in my Cervical C-3-4-5 and T-1 and Lumbar C-3-4-5 and S-1-2
The doctor that had read my MRI's underlined Severe several times while doing the reading. I told the gentleman to please wait a minute. I got the copy out of my car and brought to him. He threw it on the ground. His wife picked it up and started to give it back to me, and I asked her to please read it. by then I had tears in my eyes and she read it and was so embarressed, she literally hit her husband. Better her than me LOL
I then walked into the store and got a cart to lean on while I walked through a whole department store.
If I go to a mall, park, places that do not have a cart to balance me I use a walker. I also have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, osteoarthritis, and can have a flare of anything or everything at any given day.
there are MANY disabilities you will not see. Please tell your uncle about me. Maybe that will help him understand. I am a female Army Veteran, and though I am disabled by my many feats, I would not have changed my life which was very exciting and one of the best jobs I did!
Bless you for trying to understand.
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@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
17 Dec 12
First I want to thank you for serving your country in the Army. In my opinion our military
stand between me and the enemy, and my family is safe because of people like you.
Your attitude is wonderful of having had an exciting life without regrets but it has also cost
you a lot in terms of your health, and you deserve a lot better than to have someone shouting
at you about a parking space.
Lots of handicapped people have a hard way to go but what you state is obvious to most of us that
not all handicapping conditions are readily visible. Some of the most painful ones, in fact. People, handicapped or not, who are tempted to take out their pain on others, should probably be in therapy to learn to cope with their condition in more acceptable ways.
@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
17 Dec 12
I think you're right because he gets very defensive if I mention anything about it. I guess he hasn't thought it could be dangerous. I understand his actions because he has been in pain for many years now, but he needs to control himself better.
