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does anyone watch DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES? There is a funny scene where Gabrielle fights over a handicapped parking space where she argues w/a man in a wheel chair. She says "I have to walk in these HIGH HEELS and you get to roll around!" (something to that effect. ) Its hysterical.

She insisted on parking as close to the *big box* store as possible....she had just 'downsized' her life and wasn't used to shopping @ places like that.

QUOTE (littledutchboy @ Feb 2 2009, 09:22 AM)

I never see non HC cars in HC spaces, what I do see disgusts me and that is HC drivers parking in a HC space and letting their kids go shopping, or all the fat old smokers using HC spaces who should not get a HC space just because they are fat and smoke. Getting a HC placard must be the easiest thing in the world to get.

I just saw something like this yesterday at the pharmacy. As I was walking in a lady came walking out (younger lady, no disabilities that I could see) got into the passenger side of the car in the HC spot. Driver of said car was waiting outside for her, couldn't see a HC sign in the rearview mirror either.

Maybe it was too cold for her to walk. Sad thing is, if she was just picking up a prescription or dropping one off, there is a drive-thru for the pharmacy.

QUOTE (LicenseForMayhem @ Feb 3 2009, 01:15 PM)

You have to admit, though, there are some people who drive the electric carts who appear to have that attitude, too. One grouchy old bag ran into the back of my older son's legs when we were standing off to the side at the end of an aisle and then told me to "get that &*^*^(*^ kid out of my way". Nice.

Which leads me to another pet peeve:
People who cuss a blue streak in front of kids. I am NOT a parent, but it makes me sick when I hear someone cussing at their own child, or cussing in front of someone else's child. And the ones who start cussing out the parent or bystander who requests they stop is even a bigger jerk. Not everyone nowadays raises their children to "make sailors blush", so to speak. It amazes me the total lack of respect people have for themselves and especially for anyone else around them. 75% of the world needs a good ole fashioned whuppin' and a bar of soap.
Oy

QUOTE (Scout @ Feb 3 2009, 11:28 AM)

Which leads me to another pet peeve:
People who cuss a blue streak in front of kids. I am NOT a parent, but it makes me sick when I hear someone cussing at their own child, or cussing in front of someone else's child. And the ones who start cussing out the parent or bystander who requests they stop is even a bigger jerk. Not everyone nowadays raises their children to "make sailor's blush", so to speak

There seems to be a general lack of manners anymore, even to the point that some people appear not to have any sense that some behavior just isn't appropriate.

QUOTE (Scout @ Feb 3 2009, 12:28 PM)

Which leads me to another pet peeve:
People who cuss a blue streak in front of kids. I am NOT a parent, but it makes me sick when I hear someone cussing at their own child, or cussing in front of someone else's child. And the ones who start cussing out the parent or bystander who requests they stop is even a bigger jerk. Not everyone nowadays raises their children to "make sailors blush", so to speak. It amazes me the total lack of respect people have for themselves and especially for anyone else around them. 75% of the world needs a good ole fashioned whuppin' and a bar of soap.
Oy

I agree. And Walmart for some reason tends to be a magnet for this kind of parent/kid JERRY SPRINGER parenting. I cannot believe the times I have been witness/heard parents expelling the 'F' word to their kids and in front of other kids. I've been upset enough to want to say something but if they are rattled enough to use this language on a daily basis I couldn't imagine ruffling their feathers even more.

I have never seen this behavior in Target. Why is this? Just lucky?

I will also never forget one upsetting moment at Rt 30 Walmart yrs ago. I was in the electronic dept looking at DVDs and this family came along. The girl (who looked about 6 yrs old) walked a few steps away from the guy to look at a movie & he came along and grabbed her hand and she squealed "you're hurting me!" He was squeezing her hand hard. I saw her eyes tearing up...and I knew he was using excessive force holding her hand , hurting her thinking no one noticed. They were near me enough for me to find out she WASN'T his daughter...cuz she called him by a lst name and her mom was calling him 'honey'. The kids looked so stressed and unhappy. The mom and the large gruff guy looked miserable and classless.

And what is so unbearable is the fact I cannot do anything about it.