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calimary

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33. My husband is disabled.
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 09:30 PM
Feb 2017

I'll be damned if I let ANYBODY diss him.

One time I got my revenge, and I didn't have to lift a fist. We'd just gotten out of the car in a theater parking lot. His wooden leg was being repaired and he was temporarily crutching it. So we weren't exactly breaking any land speed records. Some jerk in the car behind us started honking, really obnoxiously. Stupid us - I guess we were in his way. So I decided someone needed to be taught a lesson. My husband proceeded ahead of me, while I did the Slow-Walk-of-the-Century, straight down the middle of the row, all the way from the far end where we'd parked, to the theater entrance. Right smack-dab down the middle. I wanted to make sure it was impossible to pass me on either side. I intentionally took several minutes to stroll approximately 50 feet. My thoughts were - "you can just damn well WAIT, you SOB. I'm going to take all the damn time I feel like taking." I think I recall stopping on the way, to rummage through my purse for a few moments. Whoever it was rolled slowly along behind me, and floored it when I finally reached the theater door. I'm sorry - but that made me feel SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! My husband thought it was hilarious.

I've been known to crab at people who are able-bodied but park in a handicapped spot. Sometimes I go into the store, find the manager, and rat them out. Aside from my husband, there are lots of elderly people in our neighborhood and many of them have permits to park in those handicapped spots, and they can't walk across a parking lot or get out of somebody's way very quickly, either. They need those spaces! It seriously pisses me off to see some lazy-ass selfish jerk who isn't handicapped take one of those spaces because they're "just gonna be two seconds." I always check cars parked in handicapped spaces to make sure they have a handicap parking permit or license plate that allows them to park there. I'm kind of a Nazi that way.

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How embarrassing for the USA: [View all] Kingofalldems Feb 2017 OP
DEPLORABLES Angry Dragon Feb 2017 #1
People that hate the disabled CountAllVotes Feb 2017 #2
Agree. Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #5
Yes that is horrible CountAllVotes Feb 2017 #7
Had to use a Cane while Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #11
That is just really shocking to me that people are so nasty to AgadorSparticus Feb 2017 #42
They feel emboldened now, whereas before they were cowards. Ilsa Feb 2017 #22
Also "because the president is WHITE." dchill Feb 2017 #26
Poor excuse to prove who they really are (tRump) CountAllVotes Feb 2017 #40
They love abusing human decency as they clutch their Bibles. CrispyQ Feb 2017 #49
My husband is disabled. calimary Feb 2017 #33
LOL! Foo Fighter Feb 2017 #43
Hey, it's REALLY sweet when you complain to the manager of some store and then calimary Feb 2017 #44
I've nver heard them get on the intercom Foo Fighter Feb 2017 #45
That's definitely preferable than what happened to my friends. Ilsa Feb 2017 #50
Everyone should be lucky enough to ultimately become disabled by living long enough. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #15
tRump Scarsdale Feb 2017 #20
I know it's wrong of me, Ilsa Feb 2017 #32
60+ million of our fellow citizens PJMcK Feb 2017 #3
i will never forgive him for that. that alone should have disqualified him. spanone Feb 2017 #4
Agree completely....A six year old knows not to do that. whathehell Feb 2017 #9
Unfortunately a new generation will see Chevy Feb 2017 #27
I actually don't think he will have that lasting influence.. whathehell Feb 2017 #54
scumbag fascists, that's who Kimchijeon Feb 2017 #6
Yeah, if you want to call that "America's leader" into dump Cha Feb 2017 #8
Sad DURec leftstreet Feb 2017 #10
KnR sheshe2 Feb 2017 #12
And I thought Bush jr was an embarrassment solarjre Feb 2017 #21
Hi solarjre. sheshe2 Feb 2017 #30
Thank you! solarjre Feb 2017 #41
That is so true. llmart Feb 2017 #24
Let's face it. His supporters are just not nice people world wide wally Feb 2017 #13
But the most important thing is that we not call his stupid supporters "stupid" Orrex Feb 2017 #14
I have zero empathy with them. Willfully ignorant. Kingofalldems Feb 2017 #16
I feel the same way Orrex Feb 2017 #23
They can tone police DEEZ. HughBeaumont Feb 2017 #52
I will never understand. Never. Glimmer of Hope Feb 2017 #17
Trudeau just has that pedigree bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #18
These guys both had it. sheshe2 Feb 2017 #31
Yes bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #35
Ever want something so badly but you can't have it? BannonsLiver Feb 2017 #46
In Answer to Your Question... TomCADem Feb 2017 #19
You know who else hated the handicapped? Chevy Feb 2017 #25
People so full of self-loathing there is no place left fo it, so.. pangaia Feb 2017 #28
Makes me cry! Stonepounder Feb 2017 #29
I wish the guy on top was my president. nt Ilsa Feb 2017 #34
Is this the Jim Cornetto from wrestling? AngryAmish Feb 2017 #36
That's him. Great progressive. Kingofalldems Feb 2017 #38
It's Jim Cornette. And he is an amazing liberal. (eom) StevieM Feb 2017 #39
Trudeau, leader of the free world. sarcasmo Feb 2017 #37
yes, he is. eom LittleGirl Feb 2017 #48
Happy to be the 100th rec! KnR eom LittleGirl Feb 2017 #47
Trump thinks they are a burden like Hitler did LiberalLovinLug Feb 2017 #51
a person who is just as sick and perverted and hate-filled as the orange one. niyad Feb 2017 #53
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