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[samsom]

ever_neutral, I tried to send you a message but I couldn't do to privacy settings?

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At my work, we lost half our parking lot due to construction work. Which means that a lot of people have had to park further away, down this sloping little hill and in the dirt.

It's inconvenient as hell, and hard to walk up that sloping concrete hillock. Most mornings, it's like running this ridiculous obstacle course set up by management to see which of us REALLY want to work for them. At least that's what it seems like to me sometimes, lol.

But I'm over complaining about it, and I'm over hearing others complain about it. And I'm SERIOUSLY over seeing desperate people cruise the top parking lot that's still available looking for open spots. Park. Walk. That's it. It's been three months, get over it.

However today I found out that the physically impaired girl that works down the hall - she has an extremely painful and apparent limp due to a stroke in her past - has had to call the supervisor from the parking lot two days in a row because ALL the handicapped spaces were taken. There aren't that many handicapped people that work there, there just isn't. And at least ONE of the spaces was taken by a woman who started driving her husband's car (for the handicap license plate) so she could park in front of the building and NOT huff up the hill, but there's NOTHING physically wrong with her.

The violence with which I want to rub this woman's face in her shame is amazing to me. How she could sleep at night without feeling pieces of her soul break off and fall away is nothing short of miraculous.

Anyway, just had to get that off my chest.

I feel better now.

Comments

[sarahk-1963.livejournal.com]

Glad you feel better.

She sounds like a right prick.

Wish I could hit her for you, but it wouldn't make any difference, because people like her never learn, period.

Perhaps someone could accidentally "on purpose" run over her...it wasn't your fault, the handbrake failed, right? (j/k) lol.

take care, sarahk_1963

[phantom-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah I hate that, my cousin has it on her car because she drives her mom (who is handicapped around) but she uses it when she's alone. She parks in the handicap spot at work and I yell at her for it because she doesn't need it she's just lazy.

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

People can be so clueless. I went to a "women's retreat" last weekend -- I almost didn't go because I was worried that my mild CP would mean I'd be struggling but the organizer (my fucking therapist) assured me that with "a little help" I could easily navigate the site. (I have big balance and gait issues. I've always had them; I'm used to them, but it means sometimes that things get tough.)

It was on an island. I got help in and out of the boat. Fine.

The house was, as advertised, right on the beach, 20 years from the water. Up a steep, rocky hill.

I knew there was no indoor plumbing, but was assured the outhouse was "easy to get to!" It was TWO HOUSE LOTS AWAY.

Some Able-bodied people really, really suck -- and you know, the ones that do have no idea. Never will.

:::clings to you::::

[damnskippytoo.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't go anywhere. You never know what a place will be like (steps, elevators, benches/chairs?) or how far away the parking is. When you're handicapped your view of what others would see as a great place to visit is completely different and they'll never look at it in the same way. Sorry you had to go through that.

Btw, why the hell would they have a women's retreat someplace with no indoor plumbing? Have they met any women lately?!

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Whoops, my bad. Fixed now.

Sorry to hear about the suckiness of the people at your work.