A Freeper Tale...

[XanaDUer]

Yesterday, my SO (who is disabled) and I went to the public library. We parked in the handicapped space (we have the decal, natch). I decided to stay in the car while he went into the building. I look over to the front of the library, and there, parked right across the walkway where patrons walk in and out, is a big old SUV. The guy had tinted windows, but you could see he had a huge gold watch on. The driver appeared to be male. My SO had to walk around his SUV to get in, as did everyone else.

Seems like he had "parked" there, in front of the building, in the crosswalk, in front of the dip where those who need it can wheel their wheelchairs or whatever,up and into the library. There was a youngish kid in the passenger seat.

BTW, there were plenty of non-handicapped spaces in the lot to use, but I guess they were too far away for him to sit.

So, people have to drive/walk around this jerk, and I am sitting there, wondering should I say something or not. I am waiting for an accident to happen, where someone will cross in front of the SUV to walk out, and a car will come around and hit them because they cannot see the pedestrian due to the SUV.

So, next to me, in the other handicapped space, a car pulls in. It is an elderly couple. They have the disabled decal, and the wife is using a cane. I smile at them, as I am inclined to do.

As I see the couple, especially the female half, laboriously make their way to the library. Does the SUV driver move for them?

No.

Will they say something to the SUV schmuck? Well, YES!

I don't know wth the couple, especially the female, said to the SUV driver, but at first he, from what I could see, appeared stunned. Then he pulled his car up a few feet. Then he took off and started to circle the parking lot, in a jerky and nervous way.

I wonder what they said to him? It looked like it scared the crap outta him.

As he drives behind me, what do I see on the back window?

"BUSH/CHENEY '04"

Why am I not surprised?

Just another day in Freeper Central. How I wish I had said something!

[Zomby Woof]

1. yep

Greedy, selfish, loathesome, materialistic prickfucks.

I was heartened to be behind a Jeep (a smallish SUV I guess) that had a Kerry sticker and a "Defend America - Defeat Bush in '04" sticker... seems the more sensible SUV's and pick-ups have Dem owners, but I see a few gargantuan Lexus and Cadillac SUV's with Jesus and Bush stickers. I am beyond angry or amazed. They are quite simply self-centered assholes with too much money and no sense of proportion in their lives.

I say they will eat my shit in November.

[XanaDUer]

2. I'm ashamed...

it took an elderly disabled lady to scare the shit outta a freeper.

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. Hey! It's my God given right as a 'Murican!!!!

To park any damn place I want!!!!! Now get stuffed!!!! </sarcasm off>

It absolutely amazes me every time I see it, I WILL say something to the Jerk Off's and 9 times out of 10 I'm met with a level of hostility and willfull disregard that makes me wish I could just shoot them.

My favorite retort? "Your a republican aren't you?" I've had a couple absolutely blow a gasket over that one, but at 6'4" and 300 Lbs no one's tried to slug me yet. I keep hoping!

[Crunchy Frog]

4. You should write a letter

to your local paper describing the incident. Say that you think this sort of thing reflects badly on Bush/Cheney and their supporters. It could help get people thinking about what kind of values * truly represents.

[XanaDUer]

5. Well,

one of the reasons I did not say anything was that I had gotten into an argument with a rude Republican female local candidate last year.

After stepping in front of me, blocking my access to the library, and asking me to sign her petition for some deranged RW bullshit, I politely declined and quietly stated "I'm Democrat."

She then wheeled around and said to her little minions, "No Democrats welcomed!"

Then I turned and unloaded on her, since I am sick of them and their rudeness and aggressiveness.

But I could write a letter. If I had a cell phone, I would have called the cops on the SUV driver.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. The letter should address

these types of behaviors and ask if those are the "values" that the Republicans are always claiming to represent. It might help some people begin to question the Republican orthodoxy that's been drummed into their heads.

Sorry if I'm sounding pushy.:-) It just seems like a good opportunity.

[XanaDUer]

7. You're not being pushy

heh, I thought about doing so right after my run-in with the local Republican candidate, actually.

I do live in a VERY VERY conservative, "born-again" area, however. I am not sure how effective it would be, but I could see.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. You should ask people

to think about whether gross insensitivity towards the disabled, and general rudeness truly represent "born-again" Christian values.

I would frame it in terms that make sense to the audience. It might at least provoke some self examination.

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Their sense of entitlement is unbelievable.

And I feel confident in saying that nine times out of ten it is more likely to be a conservative who does this.

A friend of mine has been known to block illegally-parked people in with her van and call the cops on her cell phone. Getting the cops to do anything is another matter. Why they don't automatically write a citation, I don't understand.

My friend now carries multiple copies of a rant about the stupidity of non-disabled people parking in parking spaces for the disabled and places a copy of same under the windshield wiper of the offending vehicle.