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  • #1

    That's not a parking spot...

    The grocery story today was busy.

    I saw a woman trying to unload an older man from a car into a wheelchair. It was going difficult. This was because since the handicapped parking spots were full, she decided instead of (a) parking in a regular spot or (b) pulling in front of the building to unload her passenger, then go to park in a regular spot, to instead squeeze into the aisle between the handicapped stalls. The whole point of which is to make it easier for wheelchairs (esp. the vans). Because the spots were full, and the aisle isn't wide enough to be a full space, she could barely open the door to let the guy out. A regular parking space would have provided more room. As she was getting him out, the car on her driver side left (being very careful not to hit her car, since she was parked so close). She didn't move her car, though, and just left it there in the non-parking space...

    I hope guy who was on her passenger side checks his door for dents, because with the way she was flailing about with the wheelchair and passenger, I can't see she got that guy out of her car without slamming the passenger door into the adjacent car.
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    That is a very very VERY expensive ticket in the state of MI.

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    • #3
      Quoth Aethian View Post
      That is a very very VERY expensive ticket in the state of MI.
      If the property owners will do anything about it.

      My mom and I went to Red Lobster over the weekend. She has a handicapped sticker on her car, so I parked in the normal spot. As we were leaving the restaurant, someone decided to park in the spot between the two spots. Fortunately, I could get in the car and pick my mom up because the people in the restaurant didn't want to lift a finger to get the jack to move his car.

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      • #4
        Quoth Aethian View Post
        That is a very very VERY expensive ticket in the state of MI.
        this. because even if you have tags... the tags do not cover parking between spots in the loading area.

        she's lucky she didn't get towed. especially if the car next to her needed to use the area for loading etc


        as for the RL story... i would suggest contacting corporate about it. especially that the employees did nothing.

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        • #5
          People do this all the time at my mall. The problem is that those yellow lines in my state are not part of the handicap space, so we can't ticket people for parking there; they're like no-man's land. I know in some states they are part of the handicap spaces and so can get ticketed. The most I can do is have them paged for parking in a non-designated area.

          I hope someone call the cops on her!
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          • #6
            We have parking enforcement that you can call, didn't know about it earlier. But aparantly Mom has their number in her cell phone.

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            • #7
              I encountered something slightly related, oh, a year ago or so?

              At the store I was at, the handicapped spaces were down either side of a sidewalk leading out into the parking lot. The "Handicapped Parking" signs on posts blocked cars from pulling through the parking spaces (across the marked sidewalk and into the other handicapped spaces), but the access spaces didn't have signs blocking them.

              Cue crazy old lady with huge SUV getting into her vehicle as I was walking down the sidewalk with my children, then cutting us off as she pulled between spaces to drive across the sidewalk into the other handicapped spaces rather than just backing out like a normal person.
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              • #8
                Quoth mikoyan29 View Post
                My mom and I went to Red Lobster over the weekend
                Hey~ we have a RL here, too! ...One of them, anyway. I think it's mostly out of pity or something >_> That, or it's so nobody can say we don't allow ... I think "competition" is the word... for the seafood-restaurant market Living in an area bounded by a lake, and within half an hour of a gulf and a delta that have plenty of fishies kinda spoils you in that regard 8p

                They make damn good cheesy biscuits tho
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                • #9
                  Is it bad that every time I see the title, I think "..... THIS is a parking spot!"
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                  • #10
                    Quoth Seshat View Post
                    Is it bad that every time I see the title, I think "..... THIS is a parking spot!"
                    If it is, you're not alone.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Seshat View Post
                      Is it bad that every time I see the title, I think "..... THIS is a parking spot!"
                      THIS meaning ... The Nullarbor ... ?
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