re: #101 Targetpractice

Basically, yeah. “When you’re rich and/or connected, you can do whatever you like because you’ve the power to push ‘lesser’ people around.”

Funny thing is, we see this shit all the time from people who aren’t rich or connected. They just think if they put their flashers on, then the cops will give them a pass because “They’re not parking, they’re just there for a sec.”

My wife has a handicap parking hanger due to her difficulty walking. We almost never park in handicap spaces, but on rare occasion she wants to because she is in pain.

Outside the local area where people don’t know us, I can’t remember how many times people bitched because a Smart car is parked in a handicap space. (There is more room in the passenger compartment than our last car, and the doors are bigger.) It gets especially bad if I walk out to the car alone to retrieve something.