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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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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militarybrat 21
Now if someone parked in handicapped parking without either a temp or plate tag, i would call the cops, and say something. But there are so many invisible diseases out there and you had no right. YDI
alycion 39
Don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. Not every handicap person looks sick. I hate when people say shit to me when I use my tag because I'm so young. Try living with an unknown illness that mimics ms in symptoms and see if you are in any shape to walk a parking lot on some days. Not everyone who has a sticker is wheel chair bound. There are heart and lung conditions invisible to a stranger that make these necessary. He shouldn't have just hit you with it, he should have beat you to a pulp for everyone who was ever judged for using their tag.
pwnman 33
You should be ashamed of yourself for having a bad assumption. YDI, OP.
Elfkid21 19
Serves you right you ignorant Bitch! people think I shouldn't park in a handicap spot because I am "young strong and healthy ". I have a physical condition in make legs where I am in constant chronic pain and can't walk very well for long distances. and FOR the record; I am NOT over weight AT ALL!!
Dynosaur_dollie 38
I am no where near over weight but live with chronic pain in my legs. I've had to since I was 14, I've heard the you're young line to many times, it's a total piss off.
alycion 39
I had an old women pull that one on me. Apparently since she didn't need it I shouldn't either. I told her to be grateful she didn't and leave me alone. Chronic pain is no joke. The weakness and falling that goes with what I have is even worse. My father served in Vietnam and like many kids of vets from that war, I am sick. No answers, just live with it. The doctors don't know how to treat it because they can't figure out what it is. It's frustrating enough to be sick without answers without people commenting. Sure, days when I am walking like a zombie I get left alone. But most days my flare ups aren't that bad. It just hurts to move. And I'm sure others with chronic pain have days where it is less evident to an outsider as well. I don't think any of us want sympathy. Just a little courtesy and understanding and to be left alone when we are trying to live our lives.
Dynosaur_dollie 38
my injury is rare, I am one of a handful that had had it. The doctors don't have answers and as I get older I am getting worse. It sucks not getting answers, I remember when I was in my teens nothing angered me more than hearing another doctor say the don't know. they don't know what to expect, and hearing people say I am so young, I don't really need the extra help.. it is so damn annoying. Currently I have an iv in for more issues with my kidney. moral of the story, challenges both physical and mental don't discriminate, young, old obvious or hidden they all make life a challenge so **** off and stop harassing us.
HAno97 12
OMFG You asshole! Don't judge people!
baref00tmama 15
YDI for being a presumptuous ass.
Evie_fml 14
It's amazing. People with handicapped parking stickers, that you have to apply for and prove a relevant disability to get, park in the correct space and get harassed because some asshole walking past decides they don't look disabled enough. What, exactly, does "disabled enough" look like? The ignorance blows my mind.
AprylAnn 23
Doh! Ydi!
Imaginationn 6
People are being really harsh on the OP. He got what he deserved so whats the big deal? Im sure 99% of you have judged someone in the wrong way
skatoolaki 24
No matter how able he looked, if he had a visible tag YDI. I get dirty looks sometimes when I get out of my vehicle because I'm fairly young and my limp isn't initially obvious (something I've worked hard to achieve) but after - going back to my vehicle - there's no doubt bc I'm in so much pain I'm limping badly. So just bc someone looks non-handicapped doesn't mean they aren't. OP doesn't say if prosthetic leg-guy had a visible plate or rearview mirror tag - if he didn't, then that sucks because people parking in those spots without them is frustrating to those of us that *need* them & it's good to know some ppl call those selfish jerks out on it. But if he had a tag or plate and OP just called him out bc he appeared normal then that's another story.