I arrived at 10Box on Thursday afternoon to find all the handicap spaces occupied. There are four. Two on the left side of the door, and two on the right side. On the right side, the two official marked spaces are separated by the cart return area. It has diagonal stripes, and signs on the building itself that declare NO PARKING. If the carts haven't been taken in, they usually fill up this striped space, in two long rows.
Anyhoo... I was just getting scratchers, not shopping. So I didn't use a cart/walker to help me get inside and back out. I just hobbled, after parking in the regular parking space that was down past the first handicap, the cart return, and the second handicap. I DID notice that the car in the second handicap actually had a placard. I can't speak for the others, because I was concentrating on walking without falling, and didn't turn my head.
As I proceeded inside, I saw an apple-head woman watching me. That's okay. People often stare at me. I went on inside. Got my tickets. Came back out. Still, that woman was sitting on the passenger side of a small maroon pickup truck, WATCHING me. I also saw that it had a handicap placard.
Once inside T-Hoe, I wrote on the back of my tickets. Checked my phone for texts. Then put on my seatbelt. Glancing out my window, I noticed Apple Head STILL staring at me. That's what my students at Newmentia used to call GOONING. Staring. Being a goon. Not respecting privacy. Rudely holding their gaze, as if judging.
THAT'S when I noticed that her small maroon pickup truck was parked in the striped cart return area marked NO PARKING. You'd think that she could have gone in if the driver was handicapped. Or if SHE was handicapped, the driver had no need to park there. Anyhoo... they were parked illegally in that space marked as the cart return.
People who are breaking the law shouldn't be GOONING at people who are hobbling because they had to park too far away. So sayeth Mrs. HM.
Some people are more entitled than other people, I suppose. I had just come from another business where this was evident as well. Oh, you're sure to hear that tale from Mrs. HM!
2 comments:
Perhaps the apple-headed woman also had apple brain so doesn't know she is being rude. I am glad you managed withut falling, did you have your cane with you?
River,
She could at least have looked away when she saw me looking back at her! I DID have my cane, since we had just been out to eat, and I took it to assist in standing up after sitting for a while. I was trying to be independent. Once I start using the cane everywhere I go, I fear I will never give it up.
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