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Parking Spot
FOUND by Julie De Vries
in Houston, Texas
My friend found this note in the parking lot at the University of Houston. Ho! Ho! Ho!
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
NICE! I completely agree with the note writer. Great find!
This is amazing. I can't wait until I can use this.
This find is so fitting for the Lenten season--a time of introspection, selflessness, and reconciliation.
Oh, shoot. I was trying to give up sarcasm for Lent.
This is hilarous!!! What a great find, probably the best one. I probably would write something like this! Awesome!
DAMN! Well played.
Note-writer = Federer of the parking lot.
I absolutely adore how the underlined IS looks almost like a sad face with one demented eye.
EXCELLENT! I'm planning to plagerize this in the future.
OOH BURN!
NICE!!
Very nice! I don't think there is anyone who deserves a passive aggressive note more than someone who wrongfully takes a handicapped parking space.
whoever wrote this wins the gold medal for awesomeness. way to take initiative!
also, where exactly did the "& a ho" part come from? obviously the "lazy" is a reference to their desire for a sweet parking spot, but "a ho"? did the note-writer see this person and make this assessment based on their appearance? could it be related to the sort of business the parking spot served? do these people know each other personally? i can't help but wonder.
SPOT ON, Author!!!!
Yes!! I'm thinking of taking a walk down my street with a pad and a pencil and give tickets to all those idiots who park across the length of the sidewalk... after all, nobody else does.
Reminds me of a friend in my past (a psychotherapist by profession) who used to put cards on the windshields of those badly parked (or in the handicapped spaces without credentials). The cards, pale blue and adorned with little leaves and curliqueues, read, "Were you forced to park like this--or are you an SOB by nature?"
(Impressed at being one of the first 15 posters today !)
Well, I love this find. I work for an independent living center and we are sticklers for promoting the non-use of disabled parking unless you are disabled.
I bet the note didn't change the parkers' mind about doing it again, though. The writer sure sounds angry enough, though, and we should all be more aware of the parking rules. People are just selfish, but one day that person will need a disabled parking spot and than they'll be angry that someone took a spot they needed. This parker just "wanted" the spot.
I guess a note's *one* way to go. My friend Elmo woulda just smashed the windshield & let the driver figure it our for herself.
...figure it OUT
Very cool! Reminds me of the time a girl was racing down the breakdown lane trying to get to work on time, and I started to drift into that lane to block her off. Eventually she got around me, but I found her car in the industrial park.... with her headlights on. So, being a mean SOB, I left a note on her car that said something like "I know where you park, and your battery's dead! Ha ha!"
http://www.juliedevries.com/bio.htm
Baby Basil, LOL @ your friend. That's the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
BTW...28*15 = 420?!?! Hidden message there? (I'm not a stoner I just happen to know this)
I bet the person to whom the note was written too was a extremely obese woman. Here they litereally are too lazy to park at the end of the parking lot and walk. They have to have the closest spot possible. I purposefully park at the back of the parking lot so I can walk and so those who park up front with all the dents and dings won't be able to slam their car door into mine. I'm sorry, I don't feel that because you are overweight you should be allowed to have a handicapped sign (see that ALOT here) so it takes you less steps to get to the store. The more steps, the more calories you burn, the more weight you'd likely lose. AGGGHHH!!!!!!
LOVE the find.
I have a confession to make in regards to this topic...My husband and I were parking at a Chic-fil-let and the parking there is relatively the same in distance because it is all along the side of the building which has two entrances. My husband didn't realize however, that he had parked in the expectant mothers parking space because the sign was actually lower than the car. What made it so bad was that we parked the car at the same time that a van was parking right beside us and the lady that got out (of the van) looked at us and asked my husband if he was expecting...he lied and said it wasn't him but that I was. I guess he thought it wasn't entirely a lie....I could have been pregnant at the time..course I wasn't. We got a good laugh at it though...the lady that asked wasn't pregnant either, she just thought it would be funny to ask my husband!?
If you're lazy - not a handicap.
If you're a ho - not a handicap.
Being lazy AND a ho? Handicap.
Mr. K - please don't take offense, but searching for an asshole's car in the parking lot to leave them a threatening note is a little tiny bit creepy, don't you think?
Tired - I get irritated with the overweight individuals who take the elevator to avoid walking up one flight of stairs, but the truth of the matter is, some people have medical condidtions that render them obese and often, they have become handicapped/disabled due to the obesity. Just a thought. Hopefully, they can get help and get healthy.
Ooo this will be fun! You can ad lib. Being a selfish bitch IS a handicap. Your car is handicapped. Dragging that fat ass across the parking lot IS a handicap. I'd want to get in the store fast too if I had that handicapped hair.
The author should get a job writing for a TV sitcom.
This is freakin' AWESOME! I want to have this printed on sticky notes, so I can spread the love.
I never noticed it anywhere else I've lived, but down here there are certain people who are too friggin' lazy to park their car in a space and walk to the door, so they park in FRONT of the store in the fire lane. It drives me INSANE!
But what does 'ho' have to do with taking handicap parking spots? Did the person have to sell themselves for the spot? Could it be that some handicapped individual wanted a lil' action and in return gave up their prized parking space? Did the individual who wrote the note catch them in the act and thus being disgusted decided to express his or her opinion of the matter in a letter? We may never know.
I do give the writer props for remembering the three S's.
It's terrible how we all look to see if the people getting out of the handicap spot really ARE handicapped.
As someone who once had those plates on her car (for my brother, who was in a wheelchair) it made me so mad when people who didn't need it took those spots. It's really hard to push a wheelchair half way across a parking lot in the slush.
Perfect! However, I hope the writer of the note was sure this person wasn't handicapped, before they put the note on the car. Sometimes one can have a disability that may not outwardly look debilitating. I love the note though, and I would definitely put on a car of some lazy ho that stole my parking place.
Hey Jason, you know Julie De Vries too? Believe or not I do. My husband and I went to one of her art shows. She’s a friend of a friend.
I have to ask, Winston, what are these three "S"s that the writer remembered?
I used to attend UofH and it is extremely difficult to find a relatively decent parking spot there, especially if you are running late for a class that starts at 8 or 12 or 6.
Just gotta get there about an hour early, then there would be no need to park illegally (like in handicap spaces).
You kno, this note is not really all that awesom. Being lazy and not finishing hoe is more of a handicap than the selfish jerks out there. Why even leav the not? Either do somthing that can set them back, or just leave the jerk alon.
I hate the word "ho". If you mean "whore", just say "whore".
Kira
Not knowing that ho is actually a short form (or slang) for whore, not hoe (a garden implement) is even lazier. I think when something is a slang, such as ho, or bro, or mutha, whatever, there is no correct spelling.(way to drop the e's in all of your post, tho, would have been even funnier if you had any ground to stand on in the first place.)
you're judgenmental. Anyone ever told you that?)
Maybe the NoteLeaver and the so-called "ho" had a run in a while back after the "ho" was caught sleeping w/the note-leaver's boyfriend. The NoteLeaver had to give her the smackdown and the "ho" now has a broken nose and pinky toe and so she decides that she should get to park in the handicap spaces and the NL recognized her car and decided to leave a nasty note, just to top things off.
I've written way better parking correction notes than this.
OHHH, now it makes so much more sense... Cause parking in the handicap spot makes one a slut, apperently...
The office where I used to work had no handicapped employees, so one of the guys thought it was ok to park his brand-new Audi diagonally across the three handicapped spaces. His justification was that the office was in a rather shady section of town and so he wanted to be able to watch it from the window. Everyone thought it was wrong but no one said anything… Until one morning our boss put a note on his computer monitor which read: “Eric, you appear to be suffering from some sort of major malfunction, so let me spell it out for you: Move your car. This is completely inappropriate, and while it is still up for debate whether or not you actually do have a disability I can assure you that we are all clear it is not a physical one.”
The next thing that pisses me off and I using this line (Being lazy and a ho IS a handicap). I love its crude simplicity. It's bitch slap in words. It's perfect for the &*%!# that drank the last drop of coffee and left the empty pot on the burner AGAIN.
Oh my god. I got the Math spam question wrong.
There are some interesting assumptions here today.
1. Does it say somewhere in the find that the offender was fat?
2. How does the note-writer know the offender was a woman?
3. Are hoes always female? Or could it be a man-ho?
-Just because someone is lazy doesn't mean they are fat. Just because they are fat doesn't mean they are lazy.
-Just because a non-handicapped person parks in a handicapped place doesn't mean it's a woman.
-I don't know the answer to the third question. I have heard guys called bitch though.
In response to people who get upset at others who don't LOOK handicapped and get upset that they are stealing these privileges from those who deserve it -- my husband is legally blind (which is having worse 20/400 vision (or worse) in one or both eyes -- my husband is 20/400 in his left and 20/200 in right, so he's pretty blind.) He was given a handicapped sticker for us to hang in the car. He is not allowed to drive, of course, so he really does not need it, but its more for his protection when walking to and from the parking space.
The less he has to walk around a busy parking lot, the less likely he is to get run over or something.
So yes, I am driving, but we do park in Handicap spots (legally, we are allowed to).
We get lots of dirty looks (he can't see them, 'cause he's blind), but I see them and it breaks my heart.
Just because he is not in a wheelchair, doesn't mean we are breaking the law.
A guy I used to work with a guy who came out of an Indian restaurant to find a note on his car that said "May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch". It was about the funniest thing I'd ever heard. I've even used it a few times myself.
For some preprinted "your parking sucks" goodness, check out this site:
http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/
Here is one of my parking peeves: People who back into a parking space instead of pulling in head-on. I guess they want to make a quick get away when they return. But, they are total obstruction to everyone else while they are backing in. Especially egregious when it is in a parking garage.
@ShiningStar: I think the general assumption is that the offender did not have a handicapped sticker, although I could be wrong. There does seem to be a popular misconception that unless you are in a wheelchair or have a pronounced limp, you are somehow cheating the system. My mother had a brain tumor, and the surgery to get rid of it left her with “diminished awareness.” (Basically she can get very confused and doesn’t always notice if there is a car coming towards her.) She can not drive but we do have a handicapped permit for my car because, in the words of her doctor, “traversing the shortest distance between two points is definitely safer for her.” I’ve had the dirty looks and even some comments… I’ve told people that I hope they live a life of 100% perfect health, so that they never find themselves in a position of having to deal with individuals like themselves.
Ha. There is a guy that lives in my building that always parks in the handicapped spot, we called the cops and they said because it's a private lot there is nothing they can do. So one day my friend and i were standing outside when he pulled in the spot and my friend said to him "so it must be mental right?" The guys face was priceless
Nadine, wanna know my parking pet peeve? people who don't look, when they're backing out of a parking spot. I'd rather give someone a moment or two to back into a space, they are usually more careful drivers, and care more about their vehicle and those around them.
I try not to make judgements about people who use handicapped spots, as i realize there are invisible disabilities. Yipinee, i'm assuming that you'd be walking close to your mother, maybe even holding her arm, while she walked, same as the wife of the nearly blind guy, who posted earlier.
I wish we could all just be more tolerant of each other, and use discretion when we're parking, don't park where we're not supposed to, and believe that people who do park in special spots deserve it. I guess i'm living in a dream world. And then we wouldnt get hilarious notes like this.
Go Coogs!
I just found out I can see the spam questions without actually typing a post!!
Mona, most people are too concerned with themselves to live in your dreamworld with you... I am judgenmental and juvinile mainly because I am sick of all the blatant disregard of others and need some way to take it out...
Seriously, posting to say that you can see spam questions before typing? Why does that matter, are they really that hard for you? And how could you not notice? Damn, college grad students are just as idiotic as the rest of us... For future reference, dont mention which college you went to and show pride in it if you are going to be stupid. I know I get off topic, but damn...
Yeah, that'll work, Kira. It's mostly because I'm concerned for myself that I'm nice to people. For the most part, people are nice right back to me. The real asswholes get really mad when you're extremely nice to them, and that's kind of fun.
Have a really, really good day, Kira.
Hey Jena,
"Keep it short and simple stupid" - they always stressed this in school.
Speaking of handicap...I wish I had a sticker on my car after every physical therapy session I go to.
Cool find.That oughtta tell the driver what's what.
I have a handicapped hang tag for my car or whatever car I might have to take my mother around in. She's 81, blind and uses a walker. Lots of times she never gets out of the car. If she's not going to get out I won't park in the handicapped stall. I am pleased to say I have never abused it even in the million inches of snow and sub zero temps of this winter. But I can tell you the temptation has been there plenty. Also I won't use the handicapped stall in a restroom.
Amen, Mona. You catch more flies with honey.
Lost in Translation: no offense taken.
Nadine (in no mood): if someone pulls front end in in a parking spot (as you suggest people do), don't you still have to wait for them to back out of the spot when they leave?
I already posted this on a previous parking-note find, but here it is again:
I recently left the following note on a car, which turned out to belong to a friend helping another friend move into my building:
"When you parked your car, to your left you may have noticed a large paved area with cars in it – that’s a parking lot.
You may have also noticed (again, to your left) a large opening in the chain link fence. That would be the entrance to the parking lot, which your car is now blocking."
While I agree that parking for any length of time in a handicapped spot when you aren't supposed to is bad, what about all the places that have 50 spots reserved for hanicapped users? That drives me nuts. Seriously, have you ever gone to Olive Garden and seen an Amputees Convention going on? Usually there's no more than 2 cars parked there, and the rest of us are spilling over. I live in an apartment with 8 units. There are 3 handicapped spots in front of my building. I have ONE person living here with a sticker. I'm sorry, lazy or not, this is my home. I should be able to park in front of my building.
I have a ticket I've made copies of and I put them on cars that do crappy parking jobs. It has a picture of Micky Mouse flipping the bird and it reads....
"nice parking job dickweed. next time, leave a can opener so I can get my car out. Assholes like you need to take the bus."
and at the end, it says real small
"I hope you don't f**k like you park, you'll never get it in."
:-)
1) I admit, I hate people who dont have a little handicap sticker in their windshield and park in handicapped place.
My grandmother had one of those little sticker (she have a bone degeneration in her hips, hard for her to walk long distance... she refuse the wheelchair *sigh* anyway...) and i often use her car to do grocery for her and such...
And you know what? Even tho I have the sticker, when she is not sitting with me in the car, i dont use the spot. I go park allllll the wayyyy at the extremity of the parking alot, like everyone else.
Because even if it never happenned to us that often, i found it very frustrating to let her at the front door of the store and make her wait... because some A**HOLE couldnt read the sign.
2) Being angry at obeses people dont make any sense. Alot of them have a condition that make them that way. And if they dont, well it still suck to be them. I dont care if its educationnel, sociologic or cultural. Being overweight WILL lead to physical handicap and difficulty. They deserve the handicapped sticker just as much as everyone else. If a doctor tell you that you cant walk, then you cant.
3) Love the passive agressive of the note. I guess "ho" was the worst insult the writer could think of her/his head (i think its a woman writing somehow... does man call others people "ho" or, like i feel, its strictly a female insult?) ... Is this because she got called a ho before and hated it ? Its maybe because of the platinum blonde she saw out of the porshe while she was trying to get to the parking spot? Maybe they had a little argument and the writer did feel like just talking wasnt engouh and added this writen reminder?
who know... but it make a great FOUND!
When I was 17 I tore a ligament in my knee and had a temporary handicapped parking pass. When my friends and I used it at the mall a random guy yelled at us from across the parking lot because all he saw was a bunch of young girls. What he didn't see was the crutches, the brace covering the entirety of my leg, and my friends pushing me around the mall in one of their wheelchairs.
Nice one flargy. Way to spell it out for them!
I just got this emailed to me:
http://www.stservicemovie.com/
I doesn't have anything to do with the find but may help some of you feel better as it seems that a few of us are not having that great of a day.
that makes people so angry, when there's too many. Are you jealous of their right to park close to things? Should someone whack you in the knees or poke you in the eyes so you can get a spot too?
Angie, take your concersn to the superintendent. Or are you afraid of sounding like a whiny bitch? Get off your ass and walk to the building. 3 spots outside your building does not sound excessive. Maybe some people have handicapped visitors? Or is that not allowed in your world?
Mr. K: It takes them way longer to back in, and usually everyone is lined up unable to pass them, waiting for them to finish backing in. This would happen a lot in D.C. in the Metro parking garage, and the folks that do this would back up all the traffic in garage. This is why many parking garages in D.C. have signs that say "Head-in Parking Only".
Alright - here's another peeve. When people pull too far up in front of the gas pump so that they actually block two pumps. They do this because their gas nozzle in located in the back of the car, but it is very rude.
What pisses most people off is when others park in the handicap spots that do not have the handicap tag. Then there are the easily pissed off people who get angry if the person doesnt appear to have a handicap, yet have the tag. Then there are jerks who ignore park in handicap spots without a handicap. I think most of the people here are the first, but it seems like there are some of the third...
@Winston:
The "expectant mother" parking sports that some stores have are great! I don't care how close they are to the store - walking is good for most pregnant ladies - but what is important is that the spots have more room on either side of the car for wider opening of the doors.
I remember having to wait for 20 minutes standing next to my car at the post office because I simply could not get in with my giant baby belly when some lady squeezed her car too close. =(
Almost,
Congrats, I hope it comes soon! Yeah, I felt bad we had parked there. I didn't realize it was different in width from other spots. They really should put a symbol or something on the pavement as well.
In our defense, we only stopped in to pick food up rather than eat in.
Flargy makes me laugh!
While all of this mostly makes me feel relief because of not driving myself, it also makes me even more than usually pissed off at the people who park their cars aaaaaall the way up on top of the narrow sidewalk in my narrow, one-way street, where parking is only allowed up against the opposite sidewalk. Because everyone *must* get out of their car right in front of their own doorstep. Sure, the weather is crappy right now and sure, there are a lot of people living in these houses. However, in my building there are four flats but not one carowner, while in this car-crazed city there could as well be ten cars. There are no handicapped spaces here, but I keep wondering how it must be for people in wheelchairs or parents with strollers to get by. They would have to get out on the street to pass those morons.
@Young: Something similar happened to my best friend. She only has one leg (cancer when she was younger) and normally she doesn’t park in the handicapped spots because she feels like she doesn’t have mobility issues. When we went to the grocery store recently her back was really hurting and so she decided to, and I guess the woman yelling at us couldn't see her properly/didn’t notice the crutches. All of a sudden my friend sat down, took off her “leg” and handed it to the woman saying “here. Now am I handicapped enough for you??” The woman looked utterly horrified. What made it an even grander gesture (possibly) is that the prosthesis goes all the way to the hip, so what she handed the woman was an entire rig complete with lime-green fiberglass underpants. (She was wearing a skirt, and the removal of the leg is a party trick so she has learned to do it without flashing anyone, for those of you wondering.)
@Alice...I wish I was there. I could just see the horrified look and then the aftermath of remorse...how sweet!
Baby Basil in teh Herb Garden and anyone else who feels strongly about parking issues: Check out one of my favorite sites, www.youparklikeanasshole.com
Additionally, I freaking LOVE this find SO much!
I've often wondered if wealth was a handicap, since most of the cars I see in the spots around here (with or without permits) are Caddys, Hummers, 'vettes, etc. Maybe they all got big settlements in whatever accident left them handicapped?
@ MY handicap - cool bosses rule. How graet that he took that guy on.
PS - wouldn't you think "palindrome" would be one?
Does anyone else on here know any deaf people who can drive? There is a kid at my school who is 100% deaf and has a car... He has a handicapped sticker, and then a typed note taped to his back window which reads "Why yes, I AM deafer than a post. Thank you for noticing."
Hmmmm, I am rather suspicious about claiming deaf as a handicap... unless you are trying to make it in the the music industry, or construction.
Kira, do you come here for a daily reminder of what a jerk you are? Because the rest of us get it already.
Zing!
Trouble in Mind: thank you for pointing that out; I didn't know that. What I understand from Kira's post is that maybe though deafness is a 100% a handicap, maybe for the purposes of handicap parking there are other handicaps that merit parking priority (such as wheelchairs). Just my $.2.
Oh and PS: KC in the sunshine van: I thought the exact same thing when I got that "palindrome" Spam protection question!!
What the hell? Am I really that rude? Deaf is not a handicap to many deaf people I have communicated with. What have I said that truly offends you? Instead of attacking the person, attack the problem. You truly know nothing of conflict resolution or being kind yourself. If you ask me, you are the jerk. We find prevalent in others what we see in ourselves
I have a fat and lazy *ahem* relative who my grandma lived with until she passed away. This large relative horded the handicap signs (that hang on the rearview) for her and her husband's own lazy use. When I took grandma out shopping or to lunch, this relative refused to leave us the handicap sign, so grandma and I had to navigate parking lots VERY inconveniently. When grandma died, these same relatives actually COMPLAINED that they only had so long to park illegally before the tags expired.
I agree. I think he only had it for especially busy parking lots, where he would have had to be constantly looking around to make sure he wasn't going to be squished.
I used to work at Blockbuster and our return box was right in front of the handicapped slots. It always bugged me when people would park across al three to return their films. It was even worse when people would do it "just to run in for a minute". One of them got a note like this from a fellow customer one day-she came in and accused us of doing it and tried to get us all in trouble. It was great! Then at my last job (Toys R Us) my manager even called the cops on someone for doing this! Someone was out retrieving cars and noticed a woman with no sticker and no noticeable handicap parking in a h-cap spot. He asked her if she needed any help getting into the store (assuming she was blind or something not noticeable) she screamed at him that she wasn't a f*ing cripple and if our parking lot was bigger whe wouldn't have to park there! He told my manager and she called the cops! When they got there it turned out that not only was she illegally parked but she had left her 2 year old daughter in the car! Her excuse was that she was getting her x-mas present! seeing her handcuffed was great!
Actually, I was contemplating as to why a deaf person would need a handicap parking sticker. I think I have an answer: it is so that they have less of a chance being hit because they cannot hear a car screeching it's break, or honking the horn, etc. I know this isn't the greatest explanation...it's just the only one that I could come up with.
N E one else care to comment?
Having a very 'militant' deaf person in my extended family, i'm afraid that i have to agree with Kira (and it hurts my soul to do so), but this relative does not consider her deafness a handicap. She has a university education, and is a minister in her local parish. To her, ASL is her language that she uses to communicate. If you referred to her as handicapped, she would be insulted.
In answer to your question Kira, which may have been a rhetorical one, yes, you are that rude. Or at least you appear to be so. You have admitted to being "judgenmental and juvinile" (sic). I just call 'em as i see 'em. But i will agree when you're right.
#1--Winston in Durham--thank you for finally explaining the logic of the expectant mother spots--more door space--some aren't that close to the store, which led me to wonder--what's the point? Now I get it.
#2--yep, I am somewhat overweight, and yep, I sometimes take the elevator up instead of taking the stairs, but no, it isn't because I'm lazy. I have knee problems and some days 1 flight of stairs might as well be 30.
Don't thank me...thank almost in labor...she helped me to see the light.LOL
flargy- you made me laugh out loud, which made my kids look at me as though maybe I were handicapped in some way, laughing at my computer. :)
nadine- when I drive my hubby's gigantic truck I am terrified to back out of a parking spot- surely the first time I do I will run over someone. So I go to the VERY end of the parking lot, find two spots in front of each other that are empty and pull in so that I am facing out of the second spot. (ok- that doesn't make sense- I hope you know what I mean though)... more people should do that if they need to drive out rather than back out.
kc- I have thought that about palindrome MANY times before!!!
as for the find, great one. I, too, love youparklikanasshole.com but I agree with Mona about being sweet to those who piss you off... its a toss up, I suppose. Lol, makes me think of my aunt. When she did something stupid while driving once (and really, who hasn't made at least one mistake while driving?), a guy laid on his horn while flipping her off. She put on a huge smile and waved at him like they knew each other. :)
You know what I used to do (not anymore b/c the supermarket near me doesn't have them).... Park in the 'customer with child' parking space right in front of the store. I was always ready to offer a defense if someone called me on it (like, yes, I have a child... at home; or: call the police and see what they say).
Sadly... no one took the bait, so I just kept using the spot!
I know several deaf individuals through a swim team, and none of them consider themselves handicapped (although one guy jokingly refers to himself as "differently abled").
That being said, I don't think Trouble was calling the guy handicapped: He/She was pointing out that he had a handicapped sticker on his car. Perhaps there was something else going on with him that Trouble was not aware of? Or maybe a member of his family was physically disabled? Who knows…
I was recently in the car with a friend who has Cerebral Palsy and her mother, when the last handicapped parking-space was swiped by a guy in an SUV. The guy got out of the car and started towards the store, and since he didn’t appear to be having any problems walking my friend’s mom called out and asked (very very sweetly) if he wouldn’t mind trading parking-spaces with us since her daughter has severe mobility problems. The guy stopped, eyed her, and then said “maybe she should be in a wheelchair.”
She ended up dropping us off at the entrance and as she passed his truck she checked the tag and saw that it was only a temporary sticker and would expire at the end of the week. We were very, very tempted to leave a note. Fortunately my friend is more forgiving and talked us out of it!
This is fantastic! I go to UH too and I've left my share of nasty notes on people's windshields. The parking situation is atrocious and people are definitely rude when it comes to hunting for a spot. I'm disappointed none of my notes have surfaced on Found. Maybe the next time someone steals my spot in the Fine Arts lot, I'll leave the suggestion to send it in to Found on the bottom of the note.
Oh Emily, you're stirring up a can of worms, about the eligibility of a find that would show up here, with (please send this to foundmagazine.com) written on the bottom... i can hear it now...
My son is in a wheelchair, and we need a space that allows for the ramp to lower from our van. It's bad enough when people park in the spaces without a permit, but when they park next to me in that non-parking space with yellow diagonal lines it drives me batty. I cannot tell you how many times I have been forced to leave my son unattended in the lot while I back up so I can deploy the ramp. I have yet to find a store or restaurant with "too many" handicapped spaces. (An Olive Garden with 50 spaces!!?? Give me a break!) For those times I am traveling without my son and have to walk an extra 20 feet to get myself to the door, I thank God that I have two working legs to get me there. Angie in Ohio, count your blessings. May you and your family always remain healthy and well-abled.
Kira, in a word, Yes. You are that rude.
Purely, do you think the two year old girl enjoyed seeing her mother in handcuffs?
Or you could just skip the middle man, write a note, and send it in yourself. Oh, wait, been done... www.postsecret.com
Really, I believe that no one should underestimate those who have no stickers but park in handicap spots...my grandmother, who had an artery replaced in her heart, did not have a handicap sticker for at least the first three months after the surgery because her doctor forgot to issue her one and then was slow to get it to her. During that time, my grandmother parked in the handicap spots though because it took quite a toll on her to get around.
Winston: that is true, but I'm sure in this person's case someone just decided to park there because they didn't feel like driving around looking for another parking spot because the lot was full. College parking is always horrible.
Kate, the two year old probably enjoyed that more than she might have enjoyed her abduction and rape by a pedophile on the lookout for unattended children with careless parents.
sorry about that last comment, but i get so tired of seeing people who leave their children unattended. And i get tired of people who defend them, or who turn on people who turn them in. Yes, the child was probably scared when her mother was arrested. But maybe..just maybe her mother learned an important lesson. Not likely tho. People who wouldnt dream of leaving their open wallet on the seat of a car think nothing of leaving a child in a car. It just takes a moment to lose your child. Predators are out there, they are more aware of opportunities than you are. And now i'm done. off my soapbox.
I agree with you Millie when it comes to college parking and people being inconsiderate. And not to say that there aren't inconsiderate people in the world that park in handicap parking spots because they are lazy and a "ho" but I just won't don't pass judgement on that kind of stuff, it might bite me in the butt one day.
By the way, is there really such a thing as parking on a college campus? It's more like temporarily depositing your car in the middle of nowhere so you can hike for the next three days to the nearest dorm so you can give your roommate a call to let them know your ok, you just had to "park" your car. (At least that's how it felt when I was in college).
Oops...meant don't
Don't apologize Mona... I think you where totally right. However, to enjoy seeing someone (as the former Blockbuster worker admitted) you dont know and who did very little to bother you arrested is rather sadistic... Even if that person deserved it. Turn them in, that is your civic duty, but enjoying of thier punishment is on the whole rather cruel.
U of H is a commuter school and as such, you have to get to school at 7:00 am to get a parking spot. That being said, I always hated those ass holes who parked their huge trucks in the aisles because they couldn't find a spot. Do what the rest of us did - stalk someone walking out to their car, roll down the window and ask if you can take them to their car (hey, it’s HOT in Houston). When the stranger gets in, avoid eye contact or conversation, deposit them at their vehicle and play chicken with another car who thought that they might challenge you to the spot, and roll victoriously into the space. Now walk the 7 miles to your class over black asphalt in the sweltering summer sun. Enjoy.
At my old school we had what we referred to as the 'Jersey Lot': So far away it might as well be in New Jersey. The worst was getting to class, having to park in ‘Jersey, and then getting out of rehearsal (I was a theater major) late at night and needing to trek across miles of poorly lit Main Lot. Sometimes people would be kind and give you a lift, but mostly they would just stand and watch you recede into the distance.
Ironically the ‘Jersey lot had a handicapped space, although I think someone did it as a joke since the sign was all falling over and the lines weren’t blue.
At my old school we had what we referred to as the 'Jersey Lot': So far away it might as well be in New Jersey. The worst was getting to class, having to park in ‘Jersey, and then getting out of rehearsal (I was a theater major) late at night and needing to trek across miles of poorly lit Main Lot. Sometimes people would be kind and give you a lift, but mostly they would just stand and watch you recede into the distance.
Ironically the ‘Jersey lot had a handicapped space, although I think someone did it as a joke since the sign was all falling over and the lines weren’t blue.
Sorry that posted twice! My computer is being a royal pain in the patootie.
Yip in eeee, thanks for pointing that out, some need to be educated.
mona lisa in the louvre
Kate, the two year old probably enjoyed that more than she might have enjoyed her abduction and rape by a pedophile on the lookout for unattended children with careless parents?
Oh snap mona that's bad, too bad you couldn't take that back. Maybe Found will have mercy on you and delete it. By the way, stranger child abduction is very rare, usually it's a relative. However, I rarely leave even my 14 year old alone at home.
Kira, you rock! You’ve made today interesting. Are you rude? Maybe, but you brought some issue to light and even uptight “Rogerian” Mona, succumbed to agreeing with you. For instance “Having a very 'militant' deaf person in my extended family, I’m afraid that I have to agree with Kira (and it hurts my soul to do so)”
Bitch.
emily in Houston, none of you finds are posted because you don't personally know Jason, Davy, James, or Peter. It's like the movie business. You have to know someone. If you notice most of the posts are from artist or musicians. Go figure.
Who do you gotta blow to get a find posted on here?
I went to a school with an urban campus, and I always felt sorry the folks that had to drive in. I was in an apartment near campus and I rode my bike around or took mass transit.
I love mass transit. It's hard to do, though, when you have kids that have to be picked up and dropped off.
Wow...ok then.
On another note, looking back at the find, I rather find the underlined "is" sort of looks like a frowny face.
Y'all is paranoid! I've been to Houston a few times in the past few years, but as far as I remember, never met Julie. Me and Davy have met a ton of people who've submitted, mainly because of all the touring we do. And we've even had a chance to meet some of YOU, our finest commenters...
With that, I'll issue a couple tips on how to get your finds posted here:
#1. A GOOD SCAN: A good scan goes a long way. We get lots of janky, wonky digital photos of finds which are totally unreadable. Or sometimes the paper is so crinkly as to render it unusable. Or the file size is so tiny that the find is far too pixelated... So open up your scanner, put your find down, cover with a stack of white paper and press it down with a heavy book. Scan at 300 dpi, save as a jpg, write a compelling story about where you found it and upload!
#2. Make it a real "find." The best finds tend to be mysteries. We get lots of submissions saying "I found this in my daughter's room" or "I found this in my grandma's attic..." Without getting into a semantic discussion about what constitutes a "find," we tend to share ones that come from sources unknown. Mysterious contexts. Not something your sister wrote when she was drunk at your party, but something that appeared stuck to your bike tire. Those stories tend to be infinitely more interesting.
Hope this helps. But Pepper, you're right about one part: if finders send nude pictures along with your find, you're almost guaranteed to have your find published! GOOD TIMES!!!
what happened to challenged? and disabled? or differntly abled? vs handicapped?????
geez, everyone here is so "feisty" today!
What's wrong with saying handicapped?
1.)Disabled sounds worse (to me)
2.)Differently abled is too wordy
3.)Some people may not view themselves as being challenged just different
Being in a wheelchair is a handicap too, that's why I leave notes just like this one when I see them in using those close blue signed parking spots. I don't call them "lazy" or a "ho" because that's not nice and I don't think that technically they're considered disabilities. Usually you can get a special sign to hang in your car. It takes all the guess work out for us note writers. God bless.
Another interesting and educational day at Found.
Good to get some clarification about 'ho'. I was never sure if it was short for 'hole' or 'whore'. Thanks for that, friends.
ooops...
Looking back in retrospect I realized that I was aware that I was redundantly repeating myself... Again.
who would we have to blow to get pepper banned?
Kira, your ignorance IS a handicap.
Winston, it's heere!
( On the Hill. Go Heels! )
What does being rude achieve?
People always assume that if someone does not look sick, they are not. There are disabilities/handicaps that people cannot see. For example, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Is it really that important to feel justified based on limited judgements...
I been trying to get this HO business down for years...come to find out I just have to park in the handicapp space...
I've been doing it all wrong!
Oh...just to screw up everyone...
I'm crippled and so are you. That is so not PC! LOVE IT!
What surprises me is how many people here say they leave notes on peoples' cars. If the owner of the car is being blatantly rude or inconsiderate, they probably don't give a shit about your note. Why do you leave them? To feel as if you've "done something" about those people? I'm not trying to be judgenmental, just sayin' people like that aren't worth the time it takes to write the note.
This is a great find. I hope the driver was cowed when she saw the note, but I think that if they went ahead and parked in the handicapped spot, they won't be bothered by a note. I see people parked illegally all the time, and I wish they got towed more often. Usually nothing happens.
Um, I just read the rest of these comments, and I just want it known that I am a different Kira than the rude one that was posting earlier.
usually don't come back to read what comments come after I post, but today was too interesting to let go... and the rest of the reading was just as fun as the first half.
@standing on the sidelines- amen. but we'll let you do the blowing. I'm married. With kids. BUT, if you did manage to get pepper banned by some miraculous act, I'd make you a killer batch of homemade chicken noodle soup and follow it up with a sweet apple crisp! :) (mom bribes- sometimes they work)
Alright, I'll be a sport. The fellatio line forms right here.
(And thanks, Trishia honey. We'll send your soup and apple crisp on to the boys in NY. I heard they're really into FOOD.)
Second! (but I'm not banning anyone)
Deal Puckhog. (You ARE talking about a second line, right?)
Kira (the dumb one) is Pepper's imaginary friend.
@Winston, I have to agree with you on "differently abled." It sounds like that person with only one leg might possibly be able to fly?? Or be invisible at will? The X-Men are "differently abled." If you are unable to do things that are SOP to 99% of the world's population, you are DisAbled.
I have "a weight problem". Not massive, but uncomfortable. I also have thyroid disease. They are indeed directly linked. Want to get depressed? Do everything in your power to lose weight and gain anyway, and then have a new endocrinologist who's never seen you before, hasn't read your case notes yet and is having a pissy day, take one look at you and snap, "Lose some weight!" Like I don't want to. Like I'm just lazy. You ought to be in here with it; see how pleasant it is for you.
My favorite was leaving a like sounding note on the window and still being a few spots away when said "cheaters" came out. The look around and surprise when they realized they were being watched AND held accountable was priceless!
There was an advertising campaign in the UK a few years back which showed a car parked in a Disabled space. The caption said 'Is this the only time you put yourselves in our place?'
Lost in translation - no.
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This is priceless. 'Nuff said.
Love this. I hope the ho got to see this before it was lost.
i love people!
Are you sure this was found on a college campus. They should know better that to start a sentence with because.
ahahah. thats something i would do :]
BWHAHAHA, awesome...too bad it was just tossed aside instead of being taken to heart.
I think this is covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act: "No persons shall be discriminated against on the basis of religion, nation of origin, sex, employment, sex employment, ..." :)
Hindsight is 20/20.