Greatest Note Ever Left On a Dented Car

Dear Fargo - that is the best "note" I have ever read, thank you LMFAO!!!!! You should get it copywritten and have cards printed up for sale on the internet.

I've actually done that. Written a note "screaming" at someone for parking so effing close to my car that I had to do one of those stupid Dukes of Hazzard moves on the other side JUST TO GET IN!!

They get in their car with me just looking straight at them shaking my head..

Do that in Detroit. (you're the only one not packing heat)

The worst I've done is cut 3 valve stems.

My fav thing to do when someone takes up too much space is to lift up 1 or both of their windshield wipers . It gives them something to think about when they think about what could have been done .

They get in their car with me just looking straight at them shaking my head..

That was you? Hi!

j/k

Parking too close is one of my pet peeves. am I the only sucker that will pull back out and pull back in to make sure I'm right in between the lines and far enough away from the next car so that someone with child-rearin' hips can get into their damned car comfortably? Sheesh. It takes 20 seconds...

Just so you know you don't have to look handicapped to be handicapped.

I'm disabled myself but by looking at my physical appearance you would never know it.

It could also be the driver of another's car who is handicapped. People don't realize the vehicle is not always for the driver, but also for the passenger. I'm not the type to keep my mouth shut when I see some thing like this, but one day when I asked someone why they were parking in the zone and did not exzihbit any handicapped symptoms, they explained they were picking up an employee with MS. I'm glad I asked because I learned something.

Walter: My wife and I couldn't find any place to park anywhere near this stinkin' joint. And some jerk pulled up in a brand new Mercedes and pulled right into the handicap spot. He got out of the car and there was nothin' wrong with him, don't you hate that? So I ran his ass over. I made an honest man out of him! And his mother got out of the other side and started swinging her crutches at me -- took her out with the door.
Jeff Dunham: Don't you feel kinda bad?
Walter: Ah hell, they can carpool.

The handicap placard goes to the person, not the vehicle. So, if you are driving grandma's car that has a handicap placard, but grandma isn't in the car and you park in a handicap spot, you are breaking the law.

On a personal note:
I've wanted to turn my sister-in-law in so many times for fraud over a handicap placard. She is about 200 pounds overweight and as one might assume, has terrible joint pain because of it. Well, she tried and tried to get a handicap placard and was turned down time after time. Finally, her mother-in-law (who did have a placard) died. So she stole hers! Then when it expired, she covered the hole with a piece of blue construction paper and punched a new hole. Coniving b$%&#.

Take an up close photo and email it to the police with her licence plate. You'll probably be doing your brother a favor, taking her down a peg.

Well, fortunately the years on the placard were only up to 2010, so she had to get rid of it then. And it's my husband's crazy step-sister. Everyone is afraid of her so no one stands up to her. She's been known to punch herself in the face and slam herself into walls when she doesn't get her way, so I've been told to just leave her alone. When she was doing this a lot was when I was working at the local YMCA and she would park right up front and considering that I taught an aerobics class for seniors it pissed me off more.

If the driver of the car is not hanicapped then he/she is not to park in a handicap space ,period. the are to drop the handicap passenger off near the entrance an park in a regular spot. At least that is the law in my state.

We are both handicapped and both walk with canes and both have limited capacities. One day I was driving up an aisle towards a handicapped spot when a kid came sailing into the lane going the wrong way and backed his sports car into the spot I had picked out for us and ran into the store grinning like a cheshire cat. So I did the only thing that I could think to do and that was put the front bumper of my big old Buick right up to his effectively blocking his getting back out again and called the cops. Man was he cranked up when he came out of the store but when he saw the shield on the front of my car he settled right down. Don't know what that cost him but he sure had it coming. These guys figure that because you are old that you can't protect youself and the inborn bully in them comes out.

Good for you FINutmegger!! I'm not handicapped in any way and it absolutely infuriates me to see people park in a handicapped spot and causally get out and saunter into a store.

Those spots are reserved for a reason.

drummerboy2011, thanks and there is just no telling about people. Mostly people such as yourself are very decent about handicapped parking. When I am alone and, since I am able to walk further than my Bride, I don't use the handicapped spaces if there is a regular one close by.

Please do not make assumptions about people parking in the handicapped space with a placard unless you KNOW for sure that they are not handicapped. I am relatively young (49), and drive a BMW Z4. People have actually hit my car with things (I was walking to my car once and caught one person!) and given me dirty looks when I get out of my car. I guess it's required if you have a handicapped placard that you must look really sick and also drive a crap car or people feel it's their right to mistreat you. I have a debilitating muscle disease that makes my muscles get weaker the more I use them. It also affects my breathing and makes me short of breath if I walk too far. But I don't necessarily LOOK handicapped. I limp sometimes but not always, but if I have to walk long distances I will get progressively worse. Being able to park close to a store, etc. really helps me. So, looks can be deceiving and you shouldn't make assumptions based on how someone looks or the car they drive. Of course people cheat and they should be punished. But please don't think that you can just look at someone and know if they are legitimately handicapped.

COPD can be a real killer. I know your distress since, even with a cane, if I walk too far, I simply fall down where I happen to be standing. Looking real healthy doesn't prove a thing for me.

PsychoDoc, I for one am not assuming so please don't read that into my comment. I'm speaking about those people who park in a handicapped spot with a placard who are CLEARLY NOT physically handicapped and you can tell this by their actions, movements, etc.

drummerboy2011, your point is well taken, as we talked about in #7.9, so assumptions can never be made. If someone were to assume, then assume that there is something hidden that you are unaware of except of course as in the situation I described. He, and some others, clearly have no consideration as you have shown in your condemnation of his actions.

Drummerboy - I have a friend with a degenerative brain disease. Outwardly, she appears to be absolutely fine. You'd never know she was handicapped. She would be one that you would say is clearly not. Really, unless you know the person (which in my case above I do) you don't know if they have a disorder allowing them use of a handicap placard.

My dad is disabled and has a handicapped placard on the car that I drive him around in. What I have found is it pisses people off either way, lol. If I drop him at the door and go park in a HC space then walk to the store, I get dirty looks. If I'm alone and park in the space next to a handicapped spot, I get dirty looks. I can't win, and I quit worrying about it, I'm getting used to smiling at the unhappy people giving me the stink eye :)

If I'm alone and park in the space next to a handicapped spot, I get dirty looks. I can't win

Maybe I wasn't clear....if I park next to a HC space and the non-handicapped people see the card and see me get out of the car, they get mad because I didn't park in a HC space and took a space close to the building that they could have had. I don't abuse the card and have great empathy for those that need those spaces.

As for the rest of your comment, it depends on the circumstances and where we are.

the hell with them

My sentiments exactly, lol.

I'm glad you got some sleep....is there such a thing as "too much"?

the peanut gallery falls eerily silent

Dare to hope, I think that sometimes tolerance comes with age and knowledge. I remember having the same thoughts until I met and talked with friends and family that were handicapped and did not show outward signs. People also need to be aware that even though someone looks really physically fit, it may be that person's decision to get as fit as they can, even though they are disabled. Outward physical appearances are misleading. The one person above indicated they had a debilitating disease that got progressively worse as they walked, so in the beginning they could appear not to need the space.

Tolerance needs to be taught to the public along with educating them on how people can look fit and be disabled. As for dropping off someone that is disabled and then moving the car, it is not always a good way to go, especially if the person needs assistance getting in and out of the car. The spots may not be available for the driver to park in when they go to leave and have to help get them in the car. AS you said someone will complain, in that instance it would be that they had to wait while the car blocked the path of cars driving around, so they can load the disabled person because the spots were gone.

Here we have License plates for the disabled and some tags if it is ordered by a doctor, I have given several people dirty looks and made remarks when seeing that they didn't have a plate or tag on their truck or car and parked in the handicap zone, one day I happen to go to wally world and seen this big dully club cab truck in the handicap zone with no handicap plate or sign and was thinking how rude now if someone needs it, it is taken, but after getting threw the door I heard the intercom start up with a voice saying, will the person driving the white dully club cab truck with the license number ####### parked in the handicap spot with no handicap tag please go move their truck out of the handicap spot, made me chuckle to myself good good maybe he or she learned a lesson

That's too funny! My niece got caught on TV while they were shooting a story about it, LOL. Needless to say....she's never lived it down :)

Now that's to funny haha

Here's an idea:

Instead of making assumptions and casting judgement, call the police and let them figure it out. If someone is illegally parking in a HC spot they will get ticketed (here the fine is $300). If they are legitimate, then the police will go on their way. That way no one will be giving dirty looks or messing with anyone's car that might be legit and save some handicapped person a lot of grief. Or, the jackass who is taking advantage of the spot and shouldn't be will pay a hefty fine (and will most likely be very embarrassed). End of story.

Why I do not carry weapons in my car:

My one legged mother and I were driving to her ( I kid you not) chemotherapy treatment. The rule at the clinic is that you roll in and roll out, so I had hopped out of the car to get a orderly with a wheel chair for my mom, as she looked for a parking spot. A woman, with 3 kids in her car, was not only parked in the handicap spot, but proceeded to reverse out of the spot without looking and hit my mother squarely on the driver side. Pinning her prosthetic leg between the door and the steering wheel, completely trapping her. The young women then attempted to to drive away from the accident, but was blocked by several people in the parking lot. She proceeded to jump out of her car and berate my mother with expletives, as she sat there in shock. With the kids crying in the car, she opened her trunk removed a large wooden dowel and proceeded to road rage on my mother's car. I came running from the clinics entrance, approached my mother , asked if she was OK, and knocked the lady out. i was charged with assault, but the charges were dropped later. The crazy young lady, had no license, no ID, no papers and no insurance. This occurred 3 years ago, and the police have yet to find her again to appear in court. Thank god that we were in my mother's car and not my own, because i keep thinking that i would have gone to the gun rack and ended that woman.

Mom, stopped driving for several months after the accident, after a couple panic attacks behind the wheel. She worked it out, eventually. The prosthetic leg had to be replaced, and the car needed extremely expensive repairs.

P4TC, handicapped in the mind sounds right to me!

BNC, glad you mom didn't get anymore injuries. Did you have a camera or cell phone that a shot of her? Maybe posting it on a blog somewhere would help catch up with her! B>>>h that she is. Then again it is possible she did it again to the wrong person and they stopped her!! Probably wishful thinking, darn!!

Just super. His way of being the parking lot bully. I hate bullies. A car key down the length of that pick up was definitely in order.

Snip.....snip! No significant damage.

$50 to replace valve stems

$60 and up for the wrecker (since most people have only one spare)

I'm going to remember this one for sure. Note to self, "self" put snippers into trunk tool box. Good one.

It is funny as hell! I'd love to see them when they get it out from under the wiper, LOL!

Par 4 the course- no doubt you are correct however if the fines were high enough it might be self correcting - Once the fines were up to $50k per offense the cities and towns would be able to pay for the one or two officers that would be needed once people realized the seriousness of their activities.

This might be carried forward to corporate and banking crime as well - if this was in place in 2008 perhaps we would not be in the mess we are today - just a thought.

That would work as well. Perhaps with this plethora of good ideas from us "Joe Sixpacks" we could save a ton of money by firing thoses who are "hired" to lead us from temptation so to speak and have a little cheap anarchy for a change (both meanings of the word).

He was very serious, It was really hard to keep a straight face and a professional demeanor believe me!