Snidely Whiplash
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Apr 12, 2009
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As I indicated previously, wife has a terminal cancer diagnosis, but is doing very well. Many more good days than bad of late for which we are very grateful.
We have a handicap placard for our vehicle which we rarely use. We moved into a condo building of about 20 units with an immediately adjacent parking lot for residents. All residents have an assigned space in the lot with one handicap space for the building (I bet everyone can guess what's coming now, eh?).
One resident of the building (lady with a walker) uses the handicap space for a car that is rarely used. Rarely as in maybe once every three months. Lady with a walker lives in a condo next to her son and his family who, when the lady with a walker uses her car (she doesn't drive, one of the family members drives her), promptly move their suv into the space to save same until lady with a walker's car returns home. Ninety percent of the time the lady with a walker's family drive her in their suv, but once every three months or so the car is moved with the son / family moving their suv into the space to save it. I guess they have acquired a duplicate handicap placard somehow.
I'm pretty good at the problem ownership thing and limiting my concerns to things that only directly affect me and letting everything else go, but the selfishness of this really plucks my nerves for some reason. I'm not bashful about being direct and stating my position (rather bluntly if need be) but in this instance I cant bring myself to harangue an old woman with a walker.
My wife would hardly ever need to use the space, and truthfully we can work around not having it available, but it bothers me a good bit looking out the window at a car that isn't moved but once every three month. Complaining to the condo board isn't really an option (and not really my style) because the son is the head of the condo association.
I'm just venting, as much as anything, but certainly open to creative options other than sitting on my porch cleaning my scary black guns regularly and making belligerent comments about the selfish neighbors, which wont go over well with my (too kind) wife.
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We have a handicap placard for our vehicle which we rarely use. We moved into a condo building of about 20 units with an immediately adjacent parking lot for residents. All residents have an assigned space in the lot with one handicap space for the building (I bet everyone can guess what's coming now, eh?).
One resident of the building (lady with a walker) uses the handicap space for a car that is rarely used. Rarely as in maybe once every three months. Lady with a walker lives in a condo next to her son and his family who, when the lady with a walker uses her car (she doesn't drive, one of the family members drives her), promptly move their suv into the space to save same until lady with a walker's car returns home. Ninety percent of the time the lady with a walker's family drive her in their suv, but once every three months or so the car is moved with the son / family moving their suv into the space to save it. I guess they have acquired a duplicate handicap placard somehow.
I'm pretty good at the problem ownership thing and limiting my concerns to things that only directly affect me and letting everything else go, but the selfishness of this really plucks my nerves for some reason. I'm not bashful about being direct and stating my position (rather bluntly if need be) but in this instance I cant bring myself to harangue an old woman with a walker.
My wife would hardly ever need to use the space, and truthfully we can work around not having it available, but it bothers me a good bit looking out the window at a car that isn't moved but once every three month. Complaining to the condo board isn't really an option (and not really my style) because the son is the head of the condo association.
I'm just venting, as much as anything, but certainly open to creative options other than sitting on my porch cleaning my scary black guns regularly and making belligerent comments about the selfish neighbors, which wont go over well with my (too kind) wife.
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