Is it just me, or are the handicap parking space usurpers growing bolder? Or multiplying? Maybe it's the heat. Or maybe there's a new product on the market that is laced with extra entitledness flavor.
Sunday evening, I was on the way from the Gas Station Chicken Store, where I had nabbed my rightful handcap parking space without incident, to the Casey's. I was over the moat, getting ready to turn onto the Casey's lot, when I saw a little white sports car come in the upper entrance. It was a sports car, so I was not particularly worried that it would take the handicap space. Yet there it went, straight ahead, and as I got up to the end of the building, the little white sports car was IN MY RIGHTFUL HANDICAP SPACE!
No handicap plate. No handicap placard. The driver was so spry that they had already gone inside. So I had a suspicion the driver was not very handicapped. I parked farther down. In the area that's not really a parking space, over the striped walkway, near the dumpster. As I got out, I figured I would document this atrocious behavior, hoping the driver might be inside, watching me through the front window at the register.
Unfortunately, I did not have a good angle, already being out of T-Hoe, and too close to my subject. But here it is.
Little white sports car. Leather seats. No handicap placard.
Parked in the space, a little close, but not over the line. Which really didn't matter, because that car had no business being in the HANDICAP SPACE. Also, the driver did not even pull all the way into the space. I suppose they were in such a hurry to steal that space, and not one closer to the door, which was available. I suspect the goal was to protect that fancy little sports car so nobody would dent or scratch it with a giant T-Hoe door. Assuming that any elderly limpy gambling addict would show a modicum of politeness, and not park too close. I'M NOT THAT VAL! The thought of slamming the Not-Heaven out of that little white sports car, since I'm older, and have more insurance, DID cross my mind...
The minute I stepped inside and got in line, I knew the customer ahead of me was the culprit. I could feel it in my brittle bones. She was a little sprite of a thing, not a day over 25, dressed in a clingy white shirt, pink booty-shorts, and white leather tennis shoes, with bleached blond hair and a fake tan. She looked like a cheerleader camp coach. Indeed, she paid with her card, then took her purchase of a large pizza and medium soda and child size soda, and went out to that little white sports car. She went to T-Hoe's side, opened up the little white sports car's passenger door, and put her pizza on the back seat. She's welcome for the space I left her to get that door open!
Barbie was coming around the back, to get in the driver's seat, as I limped back to T-Hoe. I gave her the stinkeye. I don't think she felt any shame at all.
Looks like a BMW to me, I am unsurprised. The store should be telling folks not to park there if they notice them doing that, smh.
ReplyDeleteThat might be right! I saw the symbol on the front when I walked out, and knew it wasn't one I see very often around here. I was thinking Ferrari, but it didn't have a horse. I can't remember now if it was a round or rectangular symbol.
DeleteThe clerks are harried enough without going outside to check on the parking. I've often thought of waiting until the people come out, and pointing my phone like I'm recording them. I don't, since I don't particularly want to end up on the wrong end of a weapon!
Oh man, I wish you could have done a citizen's arrest:)
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh! If they tried to run, it would be an extremely low-speed pursuit on foot. T-Hoe could keep up with them on a straight road, but doesn't corner as well as that little toy car.
DeleteThe seats in that little car look to have too much "lean" on them as if set back so the sitter could nap. When I'm riding in a car I like the seat to be properly upright so I can see where I'm going.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if those entitled people think they'll be in and out so fast no one will even know they were there?
It looks like her short little arms would have trouble reaching the steering wheel, too!
DeleteShe could have been in and out even faster if she parked in front of the door, in that empty parking space. And it's not like the blue sign says:
Handicap Parking
$50 to $300 Fine
Van Accessible
OR IF YOU'LL BE IN AND OUT FAST
I'm pretty sure she was doing it to protect her precious little car from being dented by a close-parker. There were TWO empty spaces on the other side of her when I was parking. That guy in the next car had just pulled in as I was taking the picture.
Maybe when she is not so spry and dressed like that, she will consider the error of her ways. But, that will be too late for us.
ReplyDeleteI don't think these kind of people will ever think their ways are in error!
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