Today, I told a guy he should be ashamed of himself for parking in a handicapped space. He hit me with his prosthetic leg. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after parking in the handicapped spot of a lot with my placard, an older couple with their 7-year-old grandchild came up and yelled at me for being a lying asshole and taking the parking spot. When I showed them my prosthetic leg, the kid started crying and guess who got yelled at again. FML
Today, I noticed a flashy car badly parking itself in a handicapped space. I hate the asshats who do this, so I went up to berate the driver. After an opening salvo of coarse language, a glint of light on his wheelchair in the back caught my eye. I then had to apologise for being a shitehawk. FML
Today, I parked in a "Disabled" space. A woman and her kids comes yelling at me about how I don't look disabled and I was just being selfish. I roll my pants up to reveal two prosthetic legs. She then yells at me that I should have warned her before showing my legs since it could scare her kids. FML
Today, a co-worker and I walked out of our office at the same time. He got in his car, which was parked right out front. I asked him what I had to do to get a sweet parking spot like that. He rolled up his pant leg and show me his prosthesis. He was in the handicapped spot. FML
Today, while shopping, an old man came up to me and told me I should be ashamed for walking around fake limping, and that it's horrible to mock people who actually limp from serious injuries. I wasn't faking, I was born without my right leg and I was getting used to my new prosthetic one. FML
Today, a driver stole the parking space I was about to pull into. I politely asked him to move. He had a go at me, so I kick his car twice, in front of a few witnesses. The car is fine. I ripped two ligaments in my foot and I'll have a cast for a month. FML
Today, I was at Walmart. A guy in a mobility scooter bumped into me, then told me to "get the fuck out of the way." When I told him to watch his mouth, he got up and shoved me into a shelf. Just a few minutes prior, he'd yelled that he was paralyzed from the waist down. FML
Today, I was so happy to finally get my disabled parking badge but I was not prepared for the abuse from members of the public because I don’t "look disabled." Just this morning a woman refused to believe I have a prosthetic foot, and tried to make me pull up my pant leg to show her. FML
Today, I was brutally run over by a man in a wheelchair. FML
Today, at my job as a supermarket manager, I had to break up a fight over a handicapped parking spot, in which an elderly man nearly got beaten over the head with a prosthetic leg. This wasn't what I expected when I was told I'd been promoted. FML
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Top comments
pataplop 23
You two clearly started off on the wrong foot.
majnin 4
Seriously? Why would you judge someone like that?
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Comments (225)
worldclassrager 41
Prosthetic legs you can never tell if they are there or not...jeans cover that...
Became_fml 10
I'm sorry OP but you deserve that.
darryaz 9
You deserved it. Why do so many people think they have the right to tell other people what to do?
flashback_fml 14
Well you were clearly in a position to judge him, although i think you should get help because i can tell you have issues
Sweetpea22 14
Ok, I can tell you are an idiot with a low IQ. According to your logic, I am in a position to judge. *Rolls eyes*
Rianokami 22
You deserved it for being a judgmental asshole.
myind_yabiness 13
Learn to mind your business. Unless its your job to stand in parking lots & watch where people park.
martin8337 36
OP, at least you weren't hit with his prostectic middle leg:-X
sunnyray812 42
Look before you speak.
Dynosaur_dollie 38
what does this have to do with anything? if the individual was wearing pants you wouldn't see the prosthetic leg, plus a lot of people have disabilities that are 'hidden' and cannot be seen just by looking at them. How about op just keeps their mouth shut instead of making assumptions.
NotoriousLES 14
How about, she should mind her own damn business. In her own words, she was "shaming" him... Shaming strangers is appropriate if they're pushing down old ladies, stealing candy from babies, or kicking puppies not for their choice of parking spots!
Rainbow35 6
Well, OP could have looked and saw that the person had a permit.
Sweetpea22 14
Wow OP, way to be a huge douchenozzle. Not every handicap is psychical just to let you know. It's not your position to judge any one and you deserved getting hit for being a nosy twit
Dynosaur_dollie 38
People like you can go **** yourselves. Sincerely, an individual with a hidden challenge. Just because you cannot immediately see the challenge that person has doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
thelittlepakeha 6
Agree. I use a walking stick... sometimes. It's impossible to tell by looking at me what's wrong but I have a long list of sports injuries that can flare up at any time. I can literally be walking fine one moment and then feel something suddenly decide it doesn't want to work properly anymore today. I get evil looks all the time when I stop and get my stick out, it doesn't help that I look really young. I get so pissed off at everyone assuming there is no middle ground between being able to walk fine and needing a wheelchair all the time. Plenty of people can walk only a little way, or for a little time, or when it's not too cold (I've had mornings where every step felt like my shin bones were bending backwards and about to snap in half and it only happens in the cold), or when they're not loaded down with shopping, or only downhill. Or, hell, the driver could be picking up the person the placard is for. In the UK where politicians and the media have been harping on disability beneficiaries a lot the rate of physical and verbal assaults on people with disabilities has skyrocketed and there are people who just don't go out anymore unless they absolutely have to. That's just screwed up. How the hell are we meant to participate in society when we have to constantly worry about self-appointed disability police not just questioning our medical history but abusing us, grabbing mobility aids to see what happens or getting violent because they're angry about "fakers" "stealing" taxpayer money? Just leave us the hell alone.
Dynosaur_dollie 38
I am quite young (22) I am permanently injured from a collision caused by a drunk driver when I was 14. My leg for lack of a better word is ******, I have zero feeling in my foot as well as the back of my leg and very limited feeling across my pelvic region. I also have severe muscle damage, 2 steel pins and chronic kidney problems. I don't leave my house when winter comes, because the cold literally makes every step feeling like I am being stabbed in the joints. I've broken down more than once from pain, I just physically can't do it. people like op really piss me off as I am still sensitive about a disability I did nothing to receive. Chronic pain, lack of feeling and the knowledge that I am very young for such injuries is challenging enough to deal with without the 'help' of ignorant fools. That said anybody tries to 'shame' me for using a parking spot designated to help make my life a little less complicated you can bet I'd be tearing a strip off them.