Re: OT - LA Bans Fast Food

"Sherry" <sriddles@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Aug 2, 8:43?am, "Granby" <s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My husband was in a wheel chair for 30 years and we heard all the
reasons
for using a handicapped parking space. ?There was a period of time
where
anyone who asked their Doctor could park in one. ?Except for the
occasional
teenager or ladies shopping in a gaggle, well it sounded like that,
we found
that sort of sorted itself out.

Heart, emphysema (?), back surgery and such are the many that don't
snow but
make walking difficult.

One of the Doctors here in town wrote an extensive article about
"Mothers to
be" using spaces marked for them. ?Said most could use the exercise
unless
there really was a medical problem."CatNipped"
<CatNip...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

On the other hand, I think moms with babies and a gaggle of very small
children could use their
own preferred parking place. Ever see them trying to herd little ones,
while lugging an infant in
one of those huge car-seat things, PLUS their groceries. Sometimes
it's not possible to "leave the
kids at home."
Oh well. I guess that's why babies are for the young and energetic!

When in the last term of pregnancy, I dearly wished for a temporary
handicapped sticker so I could park there. I thought it would good, if at 5
months pregant, you got a handicapped parking sticker that was vaid for 6
months. Would cover the last bit of pregnancy, and the first 3 months of
doing the stroller, giant baby bag and crying infant shuffle.

It still p*sses me off to this day that it always seems someone parks to
close to me when I'm trying to get Cary back into his safety seat. These are
the times I really need to open the doors wide, and I can't just leave Cary
in the carpark unsupervised whilst I back out the car a bit to make more
room to open the doors.

Changing the subject a little (and I may have told this story before), long
before Cary came along, I came out of the supermarket to find a whole bunch
of "youfs" waiting around a 'highly modified' car that was parked next to
mine. I found it a bit intimidating, but decided just not to make eye
contact and get into the car.

As I did so, one said that I had dinged his car with my door when I had got
out.

You can imagine what i was thinking.

So I dutifully had a look at the scratch.

I had clearly been set up. I had a white car. The scrape of paint was
distinctly yellow. It wasn't in the right place for my door to have made it.
And I was damn sure I hadn't made any contact with my door because I was
fairly certain I had parked in that spot because the spot next to me (where
they had parked) was empty when I pulled up.

So I looked at it for a bit, got up some inner courage, and said "Nope, that
wasn't me"

Of course, all 5 said "youfs" had seen me do it. "We got witnesses, see?"

I am still amazed I did this. But I said "No, it wasn't me. I am a paint
chemist, this is what I do for a living. For a start, this is yellow paint,
I have a white car. Secondly, it couldn't have been my door, my door would
have made a ding here - and demonstrated it. Thirdly, you weren't here when
I pulled up, it was empty, thats why I parked here."

"But we got witnesses"

"I am a paint chemist[1]. I could analyse the paint and tell you which type
of car it came from [2], but I can tell you now it came from a yellow car,
not a white one. From the colour, it looks like a late model honda [3], but
I'd have to check with my FTIR and mass-spec to be sure. But I can tell you
now, it wasn't me"

I got into my car again.

"But we saw you do it!"

Well, you can read my licence plate, take it down and report me to the
police. Then I will get to analyse the paint properly [4]", I said.

I drove away.

I never heard from the police.

I don't know whether its a common scam, or said youfs were being
particularly creative, but don't fall for it- you know when your door smacks
another car, no-one can miss that sound.

Yowie
[1] Absolutely 100% true
[2] it would, in truth, be very difficult for me to do, as I don't have a
library of car paint manufracturers. But I can identify the different types
of paint used on pre-painted steel sheets, and hte techniques are the same.
[3] Total BS, I had no idea what colour yellow it was, but it went along
with my story of being able to analyse car paint
[4] If it did go to court, I would have asked for a sample and compared the
two paints with the FTIR and the mass-spec. I may not be able to identify
the particular manufacturer, but I could easily show that my ca'rs paint and
the scratch didn't match.


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