Posted on 05/07/2006 8:33:21 AM PDT by nuconvert
People who insist on running others' meetings
People who stop the whole street full of cars behind them to let the attractive young woman turn in
Waiters/waitresses who "accidentally" overcharge
People who conspicuously hand street people money
People who put 3 weeks' worth of luggage in the overhead bin
Don't get me started!
That's wrong.
Well on that subject, why have handicapped spaces at all. I mean, what is the big deal about going another hundred feet or so for anybody? Does it really make that big of a difference? Think about it. If you are really so incapacitated that you can't go more than a couple hundred feet, you probably have a wheelchair anyhow.
I don't get the handicapped spaces at all. Especially when you park at a shopping mall and have to go for miles and miles anyway once inside. I think it's just political correctness run amok. Somehow our society survived up until the 1960s with no handicapped spaces and our handicapped had much less mobility options in those days.
What I find humorous is when people spend large amounts of time "jockeying" for a close parking space at the shopping mall, only to spend the next two hours walking endlessly around the mall. I mean, these people get all aggravated and beep and gesture when somebody slides into the spot ahead of them. When all they had to do was park a little in the back where there is ample parking and be inside the mall in maybe 30 seconds. I have a pedometer strapped to my belt everyday and sometimes I record 2 or 3 miles in a shopping mall!
It's just like a South Dakota, but northier.
'Integrity' is what you have when you do the right thing- even when you know that nobody's looking. :-)
Once, for about a week, I was going around just walking up to people and handing them an object, saying only: "Here, hold this," over 80% of the people would take it before asking me why.
no... however it is that is the standard operating proceedure from my experience.
A lot of the time the handicap spaces seem to be wider so that those wheelchair lifts have someplace to deploy.
"It's your turn when the guy in front of you leaves; not one second before, clean your own house and let the slobs live as they may."
You can call them slobs, I call them jerks.
Well, I certainly don't want to go there.
It's northie enough where I am now, what with all the traffic and the hollering and screaming and all.
Or people who like to start fights with other FReepers, somehow trying to read more into a post than is necessary.
Aren't we all! Lol
One good "handicapped" space I like is at Babies R Us. They have pregnant woman parking in front. My wife was 3 months pregnant, and I told her it counted, so we went shopping for cribs in style (grin)
Well walking in the mall is pleasant. walking through a collection of cars is not. Especially at night when its darker and more dangerous
However, there are many callous, angry, lazy people who think the spot is a privilege (????) and take it. Get their eye sometime if you have the chance and you will see a glare.
I would qualify that by pointing out that "loud pipes save lives". The guys who rev in parking lots are jerks but the guys who roar on the highway are better known as "still alive".
Yes, it is very wrong and some of the illegal parkers are hostile and defensive about it.
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