What would you have done?

[danacara]

I think that my ice cream cone might fall on the hood of his car later. And get really slathered and squished around. Oops.

 

[vhoffman]

I've had things like that happen, too, and its aggravating, but best not to respond. You don't know what type of people you're dealing with anymore. They could be spaced out on drugs, have a gun, you just don't know. However, I have a parking lot story to top any of these. It happened about 2 years ago, but still burns me. I had my two children enrolled in a church pre-school. We also attended this church and were in the process of taking membership classes. We were well-known to the church pastor. I'm disabled, walk with a cane, and have a handicapped parking permit. I routinely parked in the handicapped parking space (there was just one) when dropping off my kids. Well, a group of mothers decided they were going to run the show. They decided I shouldn't be parking in the handicapped space. They'd make snippy little comments whenever our paths would cross, like "people shouldn't park in those spaces without a permit". Well, here in Texas, one can either have the handicapped license plates or the card that hangs from the review mirror. I have the hanger. Its always properly displayed. However, these people were looking for the license plate and didn't know or bother to look for the hanger. About the last two weeks of the semester they decided I wasn't going to park there. When I arrived to drop off my kids about 5 of them were standing in the handicapped space, having a conversation. I pulled up to the space, waited, and they made no attempt to move. I tooted my horn a few times, they acted like they heard me, but still refused to move. I finally rolled down my window and asked them (politely) to please move so I could park. At that point, one of them came over to my van and proceeded to scream at me "This is a Christian Daycare!" She screamed that at least three times. She then said they were having a "Christian" conversation, and what did I expect them to do, move so I could park there? Well, that was the general idea. I told her she could have her conversation elsewhere, I needed to park and drop off my kids. She continued to scream at me that this is a Christian daycare. I told her that's why I was there--to drop off my children. My kids were at that point frightened and crying in the back of the van. I just turned off the engine, left the van where it was, and escorted my kids inside. When I came back out, the "Christian" ladies were gone, but my van was keyed. A nice, long, white scratch all along one side. I called the church pastor (who knew me) and complained. His response was, "Well, you shouldn't be parking there if you don't have a permit." I informed him that I did have a permit, and it was always properly displayed. At that point he got real quiet. It was obvious he'd known about this situation all along. Apparently the "Christian" mothers had been complaining to him about my parking in the handicapped space. He flamed the situation by allowing them to continue to complain without ever investigating the situation. If he had ever bothered to just be there once during daycare hours he would have seen that it was me parking there with my valid permit. I told him I had paid for the last two weeks, my kids enjoyed the pre school, and I intended for them to finish out the semester. I told him that for the next two weeks, when I pulled up to the "Christian Daycare" I would call from my cell phone and someone would come out to escort my kids inside. They would also escort my kids out so I wouldn't have to leave my van unattended. For graduation night, we had a friend drive us in her car, so we wouldn't have to leave the van unattended. From that point on, we stopped attending membership classes, stopped attending services, and, what really got the good pastor's attention, we stopped writing $25 checks for every service. We also took our kids out of Sunday School. We are currently attending another church where the pastor bothers to get to know his congregation and makes an appearance on site other than just Sundays. Some example of Christianity for my kids. I told them that we had picked a bad church and would find a good one. It wasn't Christianity, it was that church. BTW, the Christian Daycare church has trouble filling their pews. Wonder why?

 

[cgcw]

Originally posted by MICKEY88
I've read several stories of people being beat up or killed arguing over parking spaces, it's not worth the risk...

Me too. That's why I would have continued on. Although I wouldn't be happy about it, I know I would at least been okay driving away. Life is just too scary.

By the way, we've been to Harbour Town several times. They have a very nice trolley service. People park their cars in a lot and take a bus down to either Harbour Town or South Beach. Much less frustrating than trying to park.

 

[mt2]

Put one of my DS's smelly diapers under his tire. Just kidding.

mt2


Drive away.

 

[Lanshark]

I had this happen to me one time. A corvette buzzed in an took a spot directly in front of a restaurant. I was obviously waiting for the spot with a turn signal on and he kinda of smiled at me as he took it.

Well, at the time I was 9 months pregnant. I am not particularly tall and it looked literally like I had swallowed a watermelon when I got out of the car. I parked and went into the same restaurant he was. His jaw dropped when he saw me coming to his table. I simply looked at him and told him good thing he got that close spot for that beautiful corvette since he obviously needed the spot much more than I did. He turned crimson and didn't say a word.

 

[liznboys]

Originally posted by mt2
Put one of my DS's smelly diaper under his tire. Just kidding.

mt2


Drive away.

LOL I like that one.

I would be po'd, but I'd just drive away (while calling the person a nasty name in my head) for fear of him/her being a lunatic.

 

[Disney Doll]

If it was a space in front of the store, I would probably have tried to run into the person in the store, and said something to the effect of "Bad deeds never go unpunished. Next time something bad happens to you,remember how you behaved today". Most people bank on the fact that the person from whom they steal the space is never going to confront them.