Re: HUMOR: Getting even at Home Depot

[Upscale]

And just as truthfully, I know (and don't just think) that handicapped people would be ecstatic to park in the farthest reaches of every parking lot if a miracle happened and they didn't have need for handicapped parking spaces anymore.

It's too bad that a universal mind meld can't get that idea across to "most people". The hundreds and hundreds of little daily aggravations that the disabled have to experience every day would drive the able-bodied absolutely insane if all of a sudden they had to face them on a permanent basis.

[Scott Cramer]

I like it.

There are several handicapped spots in front of our local grocery store. They are the favorite parking place of the pickup jockeys who stop in for their Slim Jims and 12-packs of Anheuser-Busch products, the empties of which they use to decorate the roadsides on their way home.

The shopping cart corrals aren't too far from the handicapped parking spaces. When the opportunity presents itself, I wait until the bozo gets into the store, then I surround his cowboy Cadillac with haphazard blocks of carts. This takes only a few moments. The time he saves by parking right in front of the store is lost in clearing a path back into his vehicle.

Scott, closet vigilante

[Scott Cramer]

I like it.

There are several handicapped spots in front of our local grocery store. They are the favorite parking place of the pickup jockeys who stop in for their Slim Jims and 12-packs of Anheuser-Busch products, the empties of which they use to decorate the roadsides on their way home.

The shopping cart corrals aren't too far from the handicapped parking spaces. When the opportunity presents itself, I wait until the bozo gets into the store, then I surround his cowboy Cadillac with haphazard blocks of carts. This takes only a few moments. The time he saves by parking right in front of the store is lost in clearing a path back into his vehicle.

Scott, closet vigilante

[Doug Miller]

Or learning-disabled -- they can't read.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

[Trent©]

Which seems to make it more unfair.

If there not gonna hafta walk ANYWAY...no matter where they park...put the handicapped spots at the far end of the parking lot. They won't hafta walk...they have the chairs. So that'll make access for the other folks easier. lol

Hope ya'll had a nice weekend...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

[Trent©]

So it really IS only $250!! lol

Hope ya'll had a nice weekend...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

[Trent©]

I guess I missed it. Can you point me to the paragraph?

Hope ya'll had a nice weekend...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

[Doug Miller]

It apparently hasn't occurred to you yet that many physically handicapped people don't use wheelchairs. It also appears that you have never used a wheelchair; it ain't as easy as you seem to think.

I'm trying to figure out why *anyone* would begrudge *any* measure that makes life a little bit simpler for those who can walk only with difficulty, or can't walk at all. Pray God that you never join their ranks.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

[George]

Hmmmmm. Sort of like what we used to say about those "Reserved for General Officer" spaces in the exchange parking lot. Closer than the handicapped....

[George]

Not to mention climbing in and out of humongous trucks.

BTW, as an EMS type, I'm pretty familiar with C>

[Doug Miller]

Too lazy to do your own web search, huh?

Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

[Chris]

Stories like this illistrate the how ridiculous some things may

*seem*, but the handicap spots are a long term thing where as the businesses occupying the space are transient (especially something as trendy as rock-climbing). Also the business could employ someone that is handicaped (The rock climbing place could have a parapalegic working behind the counter). It is kind of hard to say what type of establishment might have handicap people visiting or how many there could be on any given day. Now, do we REALLY NEED handicap spots everywhere in every parking lot? No, not at all. On the other hand would it kill any of us to walk just a little further to get to where we are going? Maybe there would be a few less obese (and possible future owners of handicap plates) if more of us would walk a little.

It always cracks me up when I go to the mall and drive past people waiting for a spot close to the door, then walk past them again on my way into the mall while they are still waiting for a close spot. I saved time and maybe added a few more hours of life to my heart.

-Chris

[Charlie Self]

Alan McClure responds:

Not quite. Acronyms are abbreviations of abbreviations.

Charlie Self

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." Samuel Johnson

[Charlie Self]

More likely minutes, but hey, every minute counts. I've never been one to bother searching for close spaces, but as my knees deteriorate further, I'm giving a little thought to shorter hikes to the mall. But, then, I tend to avoid malls.

Charlie Self

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." Samuel Johnson

[John Schreiber]

The SNOPES site, which is as respected as anything on line, refered to:

Allen, Scott. "Wood You Do This?" Maryland Weekly. 29 December 2000 (p. 3).

National Home Center News. "Penny-Wise, (3,000) Pound Foolish." 11 December 2000 (p. D1). ISSN 0192-6772; Volume 26, Issue 22.

Haven't you heard that truth is stranger than fiction. I have no inside knowledge that this is true, but the main proof that it is false is that people have too much common sense to do something like this.

You know better than that don't you.

Thanks John Schreiber

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

Right up there with the "Ask me how I'me destroying the environment" stickers that were getting plastered on Hummers, Suburbans, etc... in SF Bay Area malls.

Barry

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

The bike shop I work at sells a major brand of rack system. The kind that carry everything from bikes, to ladders, to kayaks, to skis.

They show a "Horror Book" to dealers during training to demonstrate what some misinformed customers are capable of attempting to carry.

Ever see a _17_ foot bass boat, with the motor, on a roof rack? How about a commercial freezer?

Both loads ended up on the interstate pavement.

I have, so I voted "true" for the VW with the lumber.

Barry

[Brian Henderson]

Unfortunately, anyone with *ANY* sort of handicap is eligible for a plate. My 4-year old daughter is theoretically handicapped and I could get a plate for all of my cars and park in handicapped spots any time I wanted, with or without her in the car.

I consider it reprehensible for someone to actually do that though.

[dennisvogel]

Did you ever think they might have difficulty getting out of their auto in the rain and getting to the mall? Try it sometime. Once inside, there is not much trouble navigating with a wheelchair. But the trip from the car to the door can be difficult in bad weather. You don't really think putting the handicapped parking slots near the doors is wrong, do you? But if you do, going by your logic, able bodied people should be able to walk from even farther in the parking lot so what's the problem?

Dennis Vogel

[dennisvogel]

A distinction without a difference.

Dennis Vogel