I hope you ladies don't mind if I just jump in and vent a little.
My son started school in a new building a couple of weeks ago, a much bigger school with a huge parking lot. I'm guessing you could get a minimum of a 100 cars in that lot, all parked comfy. I guess since it's winter, a lot of folks like to pull up close to the door and drop their kids off. The problem with that is that they have no regard for the areas designated for special needs. That means, on the regular ppl were parking in front of the sidewalk wheelchair "ramp", leaving their cars unattended. I spoke to the school about it (my kid's in a wheelchair) and they promptly shoveled off the area and put up orange cones to block parking in that area shortly thereafter.
WELL...
Yesterday I went off on a woman parked in front of a handicap spot I was trying to park in. Initially, I honked and politely pointed to spot I was trying to get into. I smiled, trying not to come off as if I was entitled to something. Well, she held up her finger, as if to say wait a second, and continued chatting to someone on the passenger side. I waited like 30 seconds, but she made no move to go. So I honked again, this time gesturing towards the handicap sign. Again, she gave me the finger, nastier this time, and turned away. I honked a third time and mouthed YOU CANNOT PARK HERE! She mouthed something, shook her finger, and turned away. By now, I'm almost 10 minutes late picking up my kid as this woman has no intention of moving.
So, I think frukk it. I maneuver my vehicle to an angle, pull into the spot just barely missing her car and the car to my right, and park. Then I jump out the car and let her have it. Come to find out she's chit chatting wth her daughter. I scream at her about parking in front of handicap parking and bang a couple of times on her hood of her SUV with my hand.
She jumps out the car screaming at me not to touch her car again or else! "Or else what?" I said and promptly hit her SUV with my hand again. Her daughter starts yelling at me not hit to the car again or else. So I bang on the car like it's a bongo drum all the while telling the woman she does not have the right to obstruct parking in a handicap area. She claims she was there for only 10 seconds, but I know for a fact she was there for several minutes because when I showed up, another car was waiting for her to move.
Anyway, she got so mad at me slapping her car, she said, "I'm going to hit yours, too!" I told her to go ahead and followed her over to my car where she just stood looking all mad. Then she threatened to call the police, and I said, "Good. Then you can pay the $200 fine!" At this point I'm having visions of hitting her in the head with the hammer in my trunk, so I abruptly turn and walk towards the school to get my son. When I return, this idiot has now parked her car elsewhere (which she should've done in the first place) and her daughter is giving 911 my license plate. I told her to tell the police to hurry cuz I was going to be gone in five minutes. Since I never assaulted the woman, I knew the police were not going to show, but I was kinda of hoping they would so the mother would have to admit she was blocking handicap parking.
Since they didn't show, I left and came home.
I know some ppl are going to think I overreacted, certainly ppl who don't have handicap children, but I really hope I scared that chick enough to think twice about doing some mess like that again. Being a single mom and having to assemble and disassemble a wheelchair every single time you get in and out of your car is no day at the park. I spend a minimum of 25 minutes a week loading and unloading that chair into my little Saturn. In the cold, in the heat, in the rain, in the hail and sleet. I don't ask anyone for anything special, just don't obstruct an areas designated for those less capable.
I told my son's teacher what happened and she went out into the parking lot today and directed traffic before and after school making sure ppl were not parking in these special areas. From what I was told, she had to chase off several ppl. Unreal. I guess we will see what kind of action the school takes in the upcoming weeks. I don't want to be know as the crazy black mother terrorizing white ppl and their cars...but this is one subject I will not be passive about.
He was walking to my MIL house and 4 boys were walking ahead of him. He said they were looking back at him so he slowed down so he wouldn't come up to them. Three boys stopped and one kept walking. He caught up to the boys and one grabbed him asking him for "something" My son told him/them that he didn't have anything. The boy showed him the gun and my son told them he didn't have anything. Another one went behind him, hit him on his head and took his cell that was in his back pocket. My son proceeds to run after them as they ran away
My friend told me and my son he was lucky the police didn't get out shoot at all of them
