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SardonicAss -> RE: Handicap Parking spot rant (7/12/2007 5:45:58 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Griswold
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ORIGINAL: SardonicAss
I think being up close to a building helps with EVERYONE'S security, not just the handicapped. When my mom goes to work (when she's not off for 6 weeks with surgery recovery) her assigned space is like 3 blocks away from where she works. ZERO security there. I think it's rediculous that a 55+ year old woman is shuttled out to a desolate area, far from witnesses, to get into her vehicle just because she 'can walk.'
Son, allow me to explain a few very simple things to you, considering you're a little lacking in the cellular brain terminus.
There are people who have cerebral palsy. This is a deficit that makes those who have it incapable at rather odd moments (in many cases they are fully able...and then just moments later you'd think a truck fell on their head), of covering a typical sidewalk ramp at less than 7 % slope (take your hand and lay it flat on the table...now put a pack of smokes under your fingertips...that's a 12% slope).
It feels like Mount Olympus to them.
Parking 15 parking spots away from the front door would take you maybe 30 seconds to get to the electronic door opener.
They'll arrive in about 10 minutes.
And consider; their muscles have atrophied over the last 5 years due to their little "inconvenience".
You'll burn possibly as many as 26 calories of energy to get to that electronic door opener.
They'll burn 350.
You might even have a smoke along the way.
If they even attempted such a thing, they'd light about 15 matches...because the first 14 would go out as if in a wind storm...and the energy required to get them to the front door has entirely exhausted them.
To body sweats.
Now, Asshole...(oh...sorry...my error...) SardonicAss....let's consider those with MS.
Similar thing, atrophied muscles, but now often in wheelchairs.
Guess what happens to people who have atrophied leg muscles when they have to cross over any number of irregular surfaces (such as sidewalk ramps, speed bumps because some really enormously large asshole has parked in their spot such that they have to park 15 stalls away)?
Any idea here bud?
Well, they have this little problem...small vibrations can cause their leg muscles to go into spasm.
That's right...these pefectly capable people that you deem absolutely able to park so far away from the spots that well thinking (and far better thinking than yourself) people who have studied these issues (and therefore, came up with this entirely nonesensical concept of providing parking spaces that minimized these types of impasses such as abrupt edges, distance...and so on)...decided that people like you shouldn't be allowed a vote in their well being.
And guess what happens when someone with MS in a wheelchair goes into spasm?
Their entire body follows suit rather abruptly.
That's right Asshole...their entire capacity to be able to operate this little device that they depend on for their entire mobility is now with absolutely no debate, suddenly made inneffective by virtue of the fact that every single muscle in their body is now, uncontrollably...in a "Charley Horse".
Guess what happens then Asswipe?
They go rolling down the parking lot towards Interstate 5 at between 10 and 35 miles per hour.
And they can't stop it.
Why?
Because there are an unusually large number of fuck for brains like yourself that seem to feel that indignence is a solution for their malady.
And guess what?
Indignance, in this scenario, is only confirmation that there will always be shitheads who think their world is somehow reflective of everyone elses.
It's not.
Now...at 28, you have a lot of good things in front of you. I'm hopeful that these comments as well as many that came before mine and many that may come after might just open your eyes a smidge. If not, I suspect a decent car accident (God forbid), a horrifyingly painful medical or hereditary issue that keeps you from achieving your best...might just wake you up.
If so, perhaps you'll come to your senses, gain some sensitivity...and even someday...grow above being a complete, total and absolutely, thoroughly inconsequential piece of human sewage.
However, if that doesn't turn out to be the case and you continue on in this foolish belief, rest assured, and sleep well knowing...you've expressed yourself well, and what you aspire to become, you have clearly achieved.
Let me first sidestep your oh so mature commentary on my mental capacity, since as I've stated, I don't care what you think.
Your stunning lil painted image only supports my point. You see, Lotussong, if you go by her past posts, would wheel over to this poor guy's car, take down his play and then report him to be sure he had the 'right' to have a sticker. Is that her call? I think not. Yeah, it'll take that poor guy 10 minutes to walk to the door....and how much of that would be spent listening to her complain that he doesn't need that space or that she'll be calling in his number to check up on him? Do disabled people really need to be put through that?
Lotussong's whole rant hasn't been about the handicapped. It's about her. She could care less about others. If ANYONE parks in HER handi-space, they can rest ASSURED she'll be checking up on them.
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