Friday, I pulled onto the Hillmomba Casey's parking lot, with the intent of buying scratchers. There was a large white pickup truck parked in the HANDICAP space. It's clearly marked, with a stencil, and also a blue-and-white sign on the wall of the building. The truck was a crew cab, meaning a four-door truck meant for hauling passengers, and it had black writing on the side proclaiming that it was associated with a well-known construction company out of St. Louis, a mere 60 miles north.
Huh. That was curious. Why would a driver of a construction company's truck need to park in a handicap space? Is there a differently-abled job available at a construction company, that requires a truck that can haul five or more employees?
I parked to the right side of it, way at the end of the building, where there's not really a parking space. It was an area in front of the dumpster and air hose. I figured the trash truck wouldn't be needing access on a Friday evening around 4:30.
I hobbled into the store. I didn't know who was driving that truck, and had parked there. But on my way out, a guy came up from behind me to climb in. I think he was holding a couple of 20-oz sodas. He was early 40s. Didn't seem to have any disability that I could tell.
I wish I had taken a picture of that truck parked in the handicap space, to send it to the construction company. I'm pretty sure such behavior would be frowned-upon...
Good idea! I hope that employee gets reprimanded. I would have wanted to holler, "I'm telling on you!"
ReplyDeleteKathy,
ReplyDeleteI am too chicken to call somebody out in person! I prefer to passive-aggressively out them on my supersecret blog! You never know when somebody might see an elderly mouthy woman as a punching bag! Society has gone to Not-Heaven in a handbasket!
I think most construction companies don't care about "the little people" A truck and a hard hat gives them privileges not known to the rest of us. Shame on them.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteI guess he figured if he got caught and fined, the company would pay for it. Something made him bold, in that clearly-identifiable truck.