Story - Driving Test Follies

"Kathy N-V" wrote in message
.com...
.. We drove to her mother's
office, and then circled the parking lot for twenty minutes looking for a
vacant spot. We finally found one in the handicapped area, and I pulled
in.

Immediately, some old hag pulled up behind me, screaming for me to get out
of
the spot, "since you don't look handicapped."

Apparently, the pressure had gotten to me as well. I pulled the pass from
the glove compartment, waved it at the other driver and got a whole
attitude:
"Is this freaking good enough for you? You got a problem with my
handicapped pass? Find your own freakin' spot!"

Reminds me of when my hubby (then fiance) and his roommate were out in
roomie's car. (Roomie had Cerebal Palsey and had broken a hip the previous
year so had a handicap 'hanger' (vs plates)). Roomie had asked hubby to
drive since he was gonna need to walk a fair distance in the mall to get to
the store he needed. Hubby pulled into a handicap spot and got out. Almost
immediately some old guy started chewing hubby out and calling him several
nasty names for using a handicap spot when he was so obviously not in need
of it. At this point Roomie comes hobbling around from the passanger side
and oh so politely asks the guy if there is a problem. Guy immediately
turns beet red, mumbles something that sounded like an apology and took off.
Plus, we know first hand that not all people that need handicap tags/hangers
look like they do. My brother-in-law has had to have a bone removed from
his ankle (eventually will need to either have it fused or replaced...he's
hoping to hold out for the ankle replacement that's being tested to be
approved) and needs a tag. Came in handy when I had my foot surgery...got
him to drive me to my appointments so I could park near the clinic entrance
instead of the patient parking 'field' across the road.

Siptah
Columbus, OH

Ok so this is a late reply (yes it's that time- time for me to catch up on
posting ) - but as I parallel parked the other day I thought of this
thread.

1) My parallel parking the other day was beautiful! I think it was the best
I've done- in front of people even!!

2)When I took my driving test we were out on some small highway (North Ga)
and the trooper told me to turn around and head back. We were approaching a
driveway on the right so I turned in (signals and all), looked for oncoming
traffic, and backed out and headed back to the State Patrol headquarters.

When we got back I asked how I had done- and the trooper told me that
technically I should fail because I broke a driving law- it's illegal to
back onto a highway (and it would be better to pass the driveway and back
into it???). But he let it go and passed me. Shew.

Kathy K

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:20:09 -0400, "KDK"
wrote:

2)When I took my driving test we were out on some small highway (North Ga)
and the trooper told me to turn around and head back. We were approaching a
driveway on the right so I turned in (signals and all), looked for oncoming
traffic, and backed out and headed back to the State Patrol headquarters.

When we got back I asked how I had done- and the trooper told me that
technically I should fail because I broke a driving law- it's illegal to
back onto a highway (and it would be better to pass the driveway and back
into it???). But he let it go and passed me.

Yeah. And I bet the people who lived in the house
back out of their driveway several times a day. Nobody
backs into their driveway! (OK maybe a few who live
on really busy streets.....)
Barbara
Dream Master
www.dreamweaverstudio.com

"We've got two lives, one we're given,
the other one we make."
Mary Chapin Carpenter

In article ,
(Barbara Otterson) writes:

Nobody
backs into their driveway! (OK maybe a few who live
on really busy streets.....)

I back into mine... easier, and safer than backing out onto a steep, downhill
street where most cars whizzing past are going at least 60mph (speed limit is
35mph). It's not that "busy", but what traffic there is tends to be speeding
and hard to see coming unless you are at the edge of the driveway.
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/simplexities

Barbara Otterson wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:20:09 -0400, "KDK"
wrote:

2)When I took my driving test we were out on some small highway (North Ga)
and the trooper told me to turn around and head back. We were approaching a
driveway on the right so I turned in (signals and all), looked for oncoming
traffic, and backed out and headed back to the State Patrol headquarters.

When we got back I asked how I had done- and the trooper told me that
technically I should fail because I broke a driving law- it's illegal to
back onto a highway (and it would be better to pass the driveway and back
into it???). But he let it go and passed me.

Yeah. And I bet the people who lived in the house
back out of their driveway several times a day. Nobody
backs into their driveway! (OK maybe a few who live
on really busy streets.....)

We live on a relatively busy street but we don't back into the
driveway, thankfully (ATM at least) we can turn around in the
backyard. We've had trucks back into the driveway (DH work
purposes), and busses, without any problems - probably because we
have a 10m wide driveway.

--
Melinda
http://cust.idl.com.au/athol