Confessions of a Litigious Mind

The random, irrelevant musings of a law school graduate.

Monday, July 24, 2006

still on tilt

if i havent offended some of you yet, this post might just do it. monday hasn't gotten much better since the dell incident. it's going slowly, i'm bored as fuck, and i feel like shit. awesome. so i went to lunch.

lately, i've noticed that no cars in the handicapped spots are ever parked well. i've especially taken note in the last couple weeks, and 1/3-1/2 the car is always over the line of the space. so i have to say this: if you cant park your car in the extra-wide spaces, then you are too fucking handicapped to be driving. driving is not a right, and your license should be revoked. just because there are shaded no parking lines between handicapped spaces and the normal spaces does not mean that this area is for part of your car. in fact, it means just the opposite. being handicapped is certainly not an excuse to be fucking retarded.

and while we're on this topic, fat is not a handicap. you shouldnt get to park closer to the door just because you cant stop at 8 big macs. not my fucking problem. go to a support group, go on a diet, do anything! besides, the extra walk from the normal spaces would be good for you. walk it off. literally. and if you're in a wheelchair already, then what do you care where you park? just roll your fat ass in.

handicapped spots might be a good idea in theory, but so is communism. in reality, the privilege is abused, and many handicapped people should be off the road, unless we all want to die. i do not. that said, the best gift any of you could ever get me for my birthday, or any other holiday, would be a handicapped parking pass. because i can park my car reasonably, and i can fake a limp if i need to.

23 Comments:

At 7/24/2006 3:24 PM, Blogger Handy Man said...

Hell I will drink to that...limp on dicta

 
At 7/24/2006 3:31 PM, Blogger LawNut said...

Awesome - I HATE the handicapped spots. I'm just not sure WHY they're exactly needed. Despite whatever affliction you might have that is permanent enough to warrant a Handi-Man pass, I don't understand why a spot closer to the door is supposed to help in dealing with that affliction. Is it supposed to be like a consolation prize?
Plus, like Seinfeld once said, "I wonder what the parking lot looks like at the Special Olympics?"
Clearly, we're going to hell...

 
At 7/24/2006 3:46 PM, Blogger josh said...

i say lots of things that make people respond "you are going to hell." this makes me believe that hey, i might actually like this place. of course, my hell will probably be filled with handicapped parking spots. but i'll park in them anyway. shit, i've got an eternity to pay the ticket, right?

 
At 7/24/2006 7:07 PM, Blogger d$ said...

limping is only hot on pimps, midgets, and the occasional pirate. i hope you remember that.

 
At 7/24/2006 7:11 PM, Blogger Butterflyfish said...

Damn right Dicta -- those spots should be reserved for people who *really* need them: Mommies with toddlers.

Plus, for the non-Mommies, its much easier to buy a used carseat and stick it in the back then to try to get one of those handicapped decals.

Added bonus, you have a place to keep your inflatable doll for the HOV lane... you know, when she's not in your bedroom.

See my solution works for everyone, and noone has to go to hell...

 
At 7/24/2006 8:24 PM, Blogger sadielady said...

i love this post.

 
At 7/24/2006 8:55 PM, Blogger d$ said...

some of the grocery stores around my house have special spots for people with babies.

i park in them. why? because stop and shop does NOT tell ME where to park!

 
At 7/24/2006 10:05 PM, Blogger sadielady said...

If you've read this post, you know I have issues with parking at my office. Being (a) I always come to work late, and (b) I always end up having to park a mile and a fucking half away (not really), which just makes me that much more late. Also, you may know that although I used to be naive enough to think that people at my office didn't gossip about me, since I didn't think I gave them anything to gossip about, I have since learned that the ladies (and I use that term loosely) have spent a whole hell of a lot of time discussing my cleavage, and its visibility during office hours. So, (I swear I'm about to get to my point), there's a parking place right in front of the building, right next to the door practically, that is reserved for pregnant women. And no one has used it in at least the past 5 or so months. So here's what I'm thinking: why don't I just start parking in that place? I can pretend I'm pregnant, I can probably get away with it for, what, 3 months at least, before I have a sudden tragic miscarriage. Meanwhile, I have two benefits: (a) I can park right next to the entrance to the building for a few months, and (b) I can use "morning sickness" as an excuse for being late to work for a few months; and, everyone else in my office will benefit also, since they will all cream in their panties gossiping all day long about me being single and pregnant, and who on earth knocked me up, and "that's what happens when you wear low cut cleavage showing blouses to work every day," and then, when I "lose the baby - sob sob," they can cream some more as they gloat over my misfortune. I think this is a solid plan!!!

 
At 7/24/2006 11:36 PM, Blogger the littlest tortfeasor said...

We're definitely going to Hell in a handbasket. Or a short bus.

p.s. Sadielady, you crack me up.

 
At 7/25/2006 9:04 AM, Blogger Supreme Monkey Overlord said...

sadie, do it, that maybe one of the best plans i've heard in a while.

fuck the handicapped. first of all, have you ever seen more then one of those spaces taken up at a time, let alone the 15 they put infront of every store. second, it only helps those people who have the handi-van elevator thing for wheelchairs, and those people park in the farthest part of the parking lot so they actually have enough room for the lift. third, if they were really handicapped they wouldn't be driving. want to make our roads safer? then take the people who can't stop drooling and have only one leg out from behind the wheel.

those spaces for "customers with infants", best kept secret. i park there all the time and since its not a legal sign, its not a law or anything, you can park there with no regrets. it amazes me how many people pass those up. in a crowded parking lot they are always open and close to the front. i park there religously.

i was going to hell long before this.

 
At 7/25/2006 9:31 AM, Blogger josh said...

matt, that's why you're one of my best friends. see you tonight at hp?

 
At 7/25/2006 9:51 AM, Blogger LawNut said...

Well, since we're all going to hell and it sounds like it's probably not going to be that bad (I mean, who wants to be with all those damn do-gooders anyway??), I'm driving the bus down so I'll pick you guys all up.

 
At 7/25/2006 9:53 AM, Blogger LauraDorf said...

i am sending you a picture of a handicapped parker.

see you tonight.

 
At 7/25/2006 10:15 AM, Blogger josh said...

laura, that picture is EXACTLY what i'm talking about

and yes you will! i may or may not be wearing bells.

 
At 7/25/2006 12:49 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

i'm about to make myself the lone dissenter again, but guys, come on. there's usually only, what, one handicapped spot at the end of each row? so that's only setting you back about three yards. ok, i'm kidding, i don't really care.

i'll join the majority of you and agree that there do seem to be more H spots than are necessary.

also, sadie, you might be able to eek out an additional 1-2 months if, after your "miscarriage," you realize that oh! it looks like you were pregnant with twins, and one of the twins survived! (i'm not sure how medically sound this claim would be . . . ). or, you could just keep parking in the mommy spots and assert bereavement in self-defense. i hope you do try out your nefarious plan. :D good luck!

 
At 7/25/2006 12:51 PM, Blogger josh said...

it's not the extra 3 yards, it's the principle of it!

 
At 7/25/2006 12:53 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

p.s. dicta: have fun on your adventure. go wild. but not too wild (i.e. don't start sticking twigs in your hair and grunting when you want food).

p.p.s. there's an explanation for my "kid" on EJ, if you haven't seen it already. heh. it's been a long summer.

 
At 7/25/2006 12:53 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

haha i know dicta, that's why i really don't care - i was just being an antagonist. :P

 
At 7/25/2006 1:43 PM, Blogger josh said...

well, i just got back from lunch, and some handicapped bastard is taking up 2 of the highly coveted NORMAL parking spaces in the shade. now i'm pissed.

 
At 7/25/2006 2:17 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

park behind him. :P

 
At 7/25/2006 2:31 PM, Blogger Supreme Monkey Overlord said...

park as close as phyiscally possible without hitting them. i do this to "nice" cars that park sideways across three spots for the extra protection.

i think our problem with handicapped parking could be fixed with a better parking lot layout from the very beginning. i have a lot of problems with people building stupid parking lots with lanes going to no where and such. a perfect example is the Rookies parking lot in cromwell, after they spent all the time and effort fixing it, you'd think it would be better, not worse.

 
At 7/25/2006 3:11 PM, Blogger josh said...

i wish, there wasn't room on either side to park. i would have no qualms about that. none whatsoever.

 
At 7/26/2006 11:07 AM, Blogger Supreme Monkey Overlord said...

every calorie is precious, you must hord them in your stomach and not let any get away!

 

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