What’s Wrong With People?
When parking my car today at the supermarket to take care of the weekend grocery shopping, I noticed this guy returning to his car that was parked in a spot reserved for disabled people. He was obviously not disabled, and his car did not sport the sticker required in Sweden to use handicap parking spots.
It really gets to me when people think that rules applies to everybody but themselves and handicapped people be damned, so I walk up to him and tells him that he seems to have lost his handicapped parking permit. This guy, in his fifties, loses it and basically tells me to go to hell, get a life and drop dead.
What the hell? How come people become so narcissistic that not only do they act totally immorally, but when told about it they have the balls to say that I am wrong?
Does this happen elsewhere, or is this a Swedish phenomena?
December 4th, 2005 at 22:58
i saw the same thing in istanbul Turkey. But cannot generalize.
December 5th, 2005 at 0:49
Sadly, the problem is called the human race. It’s a disease spread all over the planet. There’s good and bad throughout.
December 5th, 2005 at 4:45
Freedom. To be smart or dumb, and to be responsible or irresponsible are choices one can make a free world.
December 5th, 2005 at 16:00
which brings to mind the fact that horrible war criminals in time of peace are just regular joe’s who use the handicapped slots for fun. What would this guy be like in a position of power over other people?
December 5th, 2005 at 17:09
Yep, I’ve seen it happen here in Mexico a lot. Until 6 or 7 years ago, we didn’t had any handicap culture at all, and it’s only been recently that people are starting to respect the parking spots. I’ve seen that it works better when the spots are actually enforced (meaning police officers will impound your car if found at a handicap place without a sticker).
I always remind myself every time I see this situation that the person must really be handicapped… mentally challenged, that is
January 8th, 2006 at 7:19
well here in illinois the police puy bags on the handicapped signs so they can park there police cars . disabled AMERICAN AND NO WHERE TO PARK