Years ago, someone we’ll call Bobby worked as a clerk at a retail store. During their duties, they got to know their regular customers, especially one elderly lady who always made time to talk with him. It had been a few weeks since he had last seen her, but one morning, he saw her car parked in an accessible parking space outside his store. Her car had a blue accessible parking placard, and she got out of her vehicle on crutches and with a cast on her leg.
A Disrespectful Encounter
Before he had a chance to talk with her, a construction truck, which did not have a blue-accessible parking placard, pulled into the accessible parking space next to her. The driver and his teenage passenger, both seemingly able-bodied, exited the vehicle. The elderly lady was having none of this and politely informed them that they shouldn’t be parking there because it’s only for disabled people, and their vehicle didn’t have a blue-accessible parking placard.
The construction worker decided to humiliate and insult the elderly lady. He accused her of faking her disability and claimed the cast on her leg was fake. He walked away, exaggerating a phony limp, laughing while the elderly lady stood there, shocked. Bobby didn’t intervene, something that would bother him for the longest time.
Some Outside Help
For years, Bobby worked at this store, always seeing the construction worker park in the accessible parking spaces to the point where he would recognize him by the car he drove. Seven years later, Bobby was still working at the store, and the construction worker still parked in the accessible parking spaces. By this time, Bobby’s store had received a device to combat illegal parkers.
Because of the high number of complaints about illegal parking, the store contracted with an outside company to deal with parking violators. Instead of having a parking enforcement officer write tickets, the store staff was empowered to write them. They had to record any cars that violated the parking rules digitally. The owners would receive the citations in the mail. As soon as Bobby was trained in this new system, he knew what he would do.
Sweet Revenge
It didn’t take Bobby very long to get his revenge on the construction worker. Anyone violating the parking rules would receive a hefty fine for each occurrence. He knew that the construction worker would illegally park in the accessible parking space, and it wasn’t long until he saw him do just that. Bobby ran out of the store with the ticketing machine, and the construction worker’s car parked in one of the accessible parking spaces without the appropriate placard. He issued the ticket and went about his day.
Since it took weeks for the violator to receive the parking ticket, it allowed Bobby to ticket the construction worker’s car dozens of times for various parking violations, such as taking up two spaces instead of parking within the lines of one space. So, years after insulting an innocent elderly lady, Bobby was finally able to take his costly vengeance out on the aggressor. Bobby recounted his story to users on an online forum, and the feedback he received was unanimous.
A Heartfelt Thank You
For people with physical disabilities, those specially designated parking spaces are more than just a convenience; they’re a necessity that makes it easier for them to navigate. A person with disabilities in the discussion offers Bobby a heartfelt thank you.
It’s Always the Quiet Ones
“This is why you watch the quiet ones. They might not yell in your face in public, but they’ll do so much worse,” someone quips. That’s why being nice to everyone is important because you never know when you may reencounter them.
A Dish Best Served Cold
There’s an old saying that revenge is a dish best served cold, but what Bobby did was so cold it was frozen solid, a commenter raves. That construction worker may have been mean to that elderly lady, but his payback came years later.
Been There
Another person with a disability recounts having a similar experience at their place of employment. There were limited accessible parking spaces by their office building, and it was hard for them to park there because somebody else would park there unlawfully. When their employer refused to intervene, they contacted parking enforcement, who issued the illegal parker a ticket in the hundreds of dollars. Those designated spaces became available after someone learned a costly lesson.
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