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  1. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    You can't fault IKEA for trying.

    My wife and I were at IKEA today and there were two "Hybrid Only" parking spots that we saw. Below is what were parked in them.
     

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    That's nothing. I routinely see people park their sports cars in a disabled parking spot and walk/stride without assistance into the malls.

    Privately I thought, "Ah, these people must be mentally disabled."
     
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  3. hill

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    maybe it was a PHEV conversion ... hey ... ya never know ... or maybe with that gloomy weather, he couldn't read the sign. Wait ... I got it . . . French Canadian ... can't read ... oh, I mean can't read English.
    no?
    :p
     
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    That's in Schaumburg right? I was there a month ago and saw the same thing but that time it was a couple full size trucks parked in it.
     
    #4 Kimoy, Sep 20, 2010
  5. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    Yeah, Kimoy.

    I was wondering:
    1) Who would I raise complaints to?
    2) Just how smug and whiny would it make me sound if I complained?

    I wonder what would happen if I parked in one of those "expecting mother" spots?
     
    #5 TonyPSchaefer, Sep 20, 2010
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    if anyone complains, just remind them of [ame="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110216/"]Junior (1994)@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYwNjA3MTUxMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDk2MjAyMQ@@._V1._SX99_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTYwNjA3MTUxMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDk2MjAyMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX99@@AMEPARAM@@SY140[/ame] and call yourself Arnold :p
     
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    I don't care for any of the spots that set us up for class warfare.
     
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    They have the same "Hybrid Only" parking at my Best Buy.
     
    #8 That_Prius_Car, Sep 20, 2010
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    Did you ever think they might be picking up someone who is handicapped? I had some douchebag read me the riot act when I parked in a handicap spot. I bet he felt like a real nice person when I came back out of the building with my wife in her wheelchair.
     
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    hey cheesy, did you have some kind of mark on your car, like a handicap license plate or hanging tag? if so, then the douchebag was a douchebag. but if you don't have your car marked, then he was maybe just trying to stick up for the people who need the spot. i don't know if your wife's condition is permanent or temporary, so these are just my thoughts.
     
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    I had one of those hanging tags on the rearview mirror. Luckily my wife's condition was temporary. She broke her foot in a motorcycle mishap and then sprained her shoulder so she needed a wheelchair for awhile.

    Luckily nothing like this ever happened to our car:
    Indyarocks Videos - Handicap
     
    #11 CheesyRider, Sep 21, 2010
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    When I was in college, I rode the elevator with a wheelchaired friend from the first floor to the second. He asked, "what are you doing?" I said, "I'm riding the elevator." He said, "I used to use elevators every chance I get. Now every time I ride in an elevator I wish I could walk up the steps."

    Group dynamics permitting, anything under about four floors gets the stairwell.

    Getting back to the post, I didn't mention in my original post that there were vacant handicapped spots in better locations. There were.
     
    #12 TonyPSchaefer, Sep 21, 2010
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    I don't think wheelchairs fit into any of those 2 seater convertables?
    Anyways, even if the driver is not handicaped but he's driving a handicaped person, he still have to have a handicap sticker on the car's windshield, or the traffic cops can give him a ticket.
     
    #13 teeasal, Sep 21, 2010
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    My thought is that they wouldn't do anything to enforce it anyway, for fear of alienating customers, and that it's meant as more of a "suggestion."

    Probably more effective to put irritating notes on the windshields of the "offenders."
     
    #14 hekaterine, Sep 25, 2010
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    Next time, just park directly behind both vehicles. They'll soon ask you to come move your car into the spot when they can't leave...

    I can already see this happening with EV charging spaces. Just hope they'll have long cords....... ;)
     
    #15 Flaninacupboard, Sep 25, 2010
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    those spaces are marked only to gain a point for a LEED (green) certified building
     
    #16 SlowTurd, Sep 26, 2010
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    including SUV's MPV's and pickuptrucks?:D
     
    #17 Flying White Dutchman, Sep 26, 2010
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