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From: dlg@riacs.edu (David L. Gehrt)
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Subject: Re: Angy and Handicapped parking Permits
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Date: 16 Nov 90 14:44:14 GMT
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In article <15331@bunker.UUCP>, Aaron.Feldman@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org
(Aaron Feldman) writes:
|> Index Number: 11448
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|> Yes just to end this discussion I handed the guy my permit so he could 
|> not only see it but see my name on the back. I guess this was the 
|> biggest reason behind my anger that I felt I had to go to such lengths 
|> to defend myself and *still* he was not satisifed. Many times I have 
|> been asked and I usually just point to it or show it to the person and 
|> tell them thank you for their concern. Thank you for your interst, aaron
|> 

I don't know about this whole thread, and I may have even missed an
important part of it, but...  I too have MS, and a handicapped
parking placard.  Like many who have MS, I sometimes don't look
impaired even when I am feeling especially lousy.

When I first read about this event, my initial reaction was that it
was an interesting turn of events that a normally disabled person,
would be on the lookout for the parking priviledges of the
handicapped.

This discussion has gone too far in my opinion.  Without intending
any insult to you Aaron, why in blazes to you feel set upon.  My
course of action would have been to tell the person that I was
authorized to park in the handicapped spot and then moved off
smartly (well, as smartly as my condition allows).

Why sign up for the anger and hurt you obviously feel?  You owed
the bozo no further explanation, and the fact that you are now
angry (at him, you?) because you, "...felt [you] had to go to such
lengths to defend [yourself] and *still* he was not satisifed...."
seems to me to be silly.  You owed him absolutely no explanation
(legally, ethically or any other way that I can see), and now you
have made yourself a victim because you volunteered to be a
victim.  Don't do it anymore... take charge of your own li fe, and
don't  let the bastards get you down.  If you don't you are in for
a long and emotionally painful existence.