If you know you have the handicap, it's not the guy's business what your handicap is. And you don't need to feel bad about it because he doesn't know you, you will never see him again, so screw him. Your integrity was intact.
but the main thing is the handicap/mental handicap/whatever i have. he saw a cab/taxi. he was witchy, mean man. tried to explain. all he wanted to complain about was the fact that we were in a handicapped space....
can't really explain my feelings. if you don't see it, is it really there?
You should have told him to f***k off. I've seen healthy young people park in handicap spots and not one single thing is said to them. Next time that happens tell them to walk in your shoes.
Maybe next time you can carry your handicap parking permit with you and show it to anyone who gives you trouble. And I agree you can't really see a disability but in my state you can apply and if you qualify they issue you a permit to carry with you. You hang it on the mirror.
Can't see that it is anyone busy except yours and the cab driver. If he didn't need the parking place it wasn't any of his business.
I would have stuck the cane in his face and asked him why he thinks I'm carrying it. Then I would have called him an asshole, and wished him merry Christmas!
I had some dope do that to me in the parking lot of a diner. He told me to move because I was in a handicapped spot! I pulled my pants down and showed him the huge wound that goes from my hip to my knee, and asked him what the fuck does he call this! I pulled my pants back up and as I was walking into the diner I could hear his wife screaming at him. They never did come in while I was there. By the way. I do have a handicapped placard.
posted by loko
over 2 years ago
thank you so very much for all of your input. i really appreciate the support. unfortunately there are alot of mentally handicapped or invisabily handicapped people out there.
just think of me when you are standing in line at the supermarket and someone starts bitching....it might be someone who has a panic/anxiety/agoraphobic like me. seemingly normal one minute.....total whacko the next. combine that with menopause! FORGET ABOUT IT!!
i have been dealing with this problem since i was in elementary school. i am 55 now....lot's of shrinks and lot's of drugs..
not a good thing.
He's probably frustrated and has/knows someone who has a handicap.
It's one of my pet peeves... to see someone pull into a handicap parking spot, then hop out of the car and run into the store. I saw a guy do it once and said,"You don't look like a f@#king(excuse my language)cripple to me !!! I'm not a small man...... He looked shocked, jumped back into his car and moved it.
The guy that assaulted you probably feels the same as I do about people abusing those spots. Maybe he had a bad day and didn't give you time to get out of the cab with your cane.
Try to put a positive spin on it by thinking you were abusing the spot and he was looking out for the handicapped.
que? positive spin? please explain Whatnow?
All too often those spots are abused. Like I said, He didn't give you enough time to get out of the cab with your cane. He probably thought you were just another "normal"(for the lack of a better word)person and you were taking a spot that is legally reserved for the handicapped.
I'm with pinkroses67 on this. You didn't mention that you have a handicapped placard, so I'll assume that you don't have one. Get one. (With your pain issues you should have not trouble getting one.) If I had a placard and found a cab in a handicapped spot, reserved for somebody handicapped who went to the hassle of getting the placard, I would be pissed off too. People who drive up and have a placard and see that cab probably assume you demanded that the driver park there, and I'm guessing that's pretty much what you did in this case. The cab should have dropped you at the door and then gone to a parking spot.
