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[dad]

I hope this doesn’t push Chris into leaving us.

[spike]

we keep him on retainer

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Chris_H_2]

you guys are jerks

[Ello Sailor]

You're clearly the jerk here, blud.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Let’s be real guys it’s about time Chris was taken down a peg.

[Bi_3]

Give yourself an uppercut, Bi.

Done, but please sub to my OF next time.

And Chris is still right. As a person who is impacted by physical issues this dude should know how important those spaces are to people in that situation and be conscious to make sure others have that access available.

[Ello Sailor]

Oh my god shut the fuck up.

[tree_]

Seems like Chris might be on to something. Hey because you’re a lawyer, what is the California penal code or whatever on this? You can prove your point right there. That being said however, this definitely feels like a Larry David kind of grievance. Some things you might be better off to just let slide.

[B]

Could you try to explain why you have a problem with it?

because the purpose of having a placard is to make it easier to walk to and from the place to where you drove. he wasn't using it for that purpose. he was just using it to park close so his daughter didn't have walk as far. and he was monopolizing the spot so it couldn't be used by someone who could have legitimately needed it.

i think he was abusing his privileges.

I just walked into this thread. I haven't read the whole thing, but clearly, Chris is right. Why is everyone arguing against him?

Accessible parking is to make it easier for people with disabilities to get to their location, not so that their able body kids don't have to walk as far to get picked up. Users of the park with disabilities are suddenly cut off from equal access.

Damned if I'd confront a person for this, but it's clearly the inferior moral choice to take that spot.

[tree_]

Yeah I’m seriously questioning my name change verdict right now because if Chris is wrong it’s not like that obvious or anything.

[Peeps]

im 100% team chris on this. if his friend parked and went and met his daughter it is fine. but to park and wait for his kid is gaming the system.

[Ello Sailor]

The guy is disabled. You want him to do a backflip on child pickup? Weirdos.

[tree_]

The guy is disabled. You want him to do a backflip on child pickup? Weirdos.

Does his disability involve difficulty sitting and waiting in the car?

[Ello Sailor]

As was already covered, he's able to be close should something happen. You guys are fucking idiots lmao.

[tree_]

As was already covered, he's able to be close should something happen. You guys are fucking idiots lmao.

He’s probably not the ideal person to save his daughter from scraping her knee on the sidewalk. Pretty sure someone else can help her up if she falls.

[Bi_3]

[B]

The guy is disabled. You want him to do a backflip on child pickup? Weirdos.

No. I want him to park in line like everyone else.

[Ello Sailor]

His life is objectively harder than yours. Spike nailed it. You're all morons and I am embarrassed to post here.

[tree_]

His life is objectively harder than yours. Spike nailed it. You're all morons and I am embarrassed to post here.

Have you considered someone with an equally hard life might need that spot who intends to, you know, get out of the car?