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    Sometimes I wish I were the law.

    Posted almost 5 years ago

    I don't know if it's because I live in a fast paced city and the speed of life, and also the impatience of the people around me, gets to me; or if it's just because I'm getting older - but there are many things now that really start to annoy me and which don't (I think) annoy others.

    Number one on the list at the moment are drivers. More specifically, it's actually where they park.

    The nearest mini-market to me is 1 minute away - so close I can see it from my bathroom window (not that I sit in the bath and simply watch the store, mind). They have a small car park that can fit around 12 cars (note to self - count actual parking spaces when I next go there). Out of these spaces, there is one disabled parking space - obviously the one nearest the door.

    When I go there, I can pretty much guarantee that 80% of the time there will be someone parked in the disabled space and to be honest, I haven't seen that many cripples walking around this place to think that the parking space is being used by legitimate disabled people (well, considering they all seem to drive - no wonder I haven't seen them walking around).

    Aren't disabled drivers meant to display a sign in their window stating as such? I've never seen one if they do...even though I do look at every single windshield that I see parked in that spot.

    I watch the drivers too sometimes - to see if I can see any obvious deformities (loss of a limb, or a seeing eye dog or something similar). Nothing! Well, one woman was really fat but she still managed to walk...um...waddle around without too much difficulty - I'm sure an extra four steps to the next nearest parking space would have been fine for her.

    I'm not brave enough to confront them, of course - just in case the one time I do it actually is a cripple and I had failed to notice that they didn't have any toes or something. That would just be embarrassing for me.

    I do wish, though, that I had a badge I could pull out to ask them to show me their disability badge - just to see if they are all liars.

    Or a policeman's outfit - that'll be cool!

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    • hehe, great stuff, my issue is crazy drivers. not how they park, but how they drive.
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      Bokonon.smallalmost 5 years agoby bokonon
    • i must admit that the only parking penalty i have was for parking at disabled parking space. so, the world must be full of me.
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      Nuacco.smallalmost 5 years agoby nuacco
    • I dare say that if I did drive I would probably use every opportunity to park in the disabled spaces...at least until I got caught. I don't drive though, so on one hand I don't know why it annoys me so much, on the other...well, slashing tyres still illegal nowadays is it? Ah well.
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      Murphyz.smallalmost 5 years agoby murphyz
    • my only pet peeve when I'm in the street is when people think they are the only one in the whole f***ing street which is a lounge or a museum in their mind & that they have their little chat or take forever to decide if they want to look at the clothes exposed in a shop or cross the street to look at the other clothes in the other shop. If people were driving like they are walking in the street, the rate of car accidents would be outrageously high.
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      Absatou.smallalmost 5 years agoby absatou
    • That annoys me greatly too. The problem is, I work in (the very lovely) Covent Garden which is a pure tourist trap for people in London. I'm all for them having a lovely holiday, but why must their lovely holiday consist of walking down the middle of the street holding hands, going at a snails pace during MY lunch hour? If I go out of the office at 10am or 3pm they're not there - it's only at lunchtime they decide to come out. Surely tourists should be made to visit museums or galleries and such during conventional lunch times? What are they doing walking the street at those times?
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      Murphyz.smallalmost 5 years agoby murphyz
    • arhg (dreamily remembering beautiful sunny day at Covent Garden, holding hands with some ...er...whoever he was)
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      Nuacco.smallalmost 5 years agoby nuacco
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