'My mum got in his face': Parent stands up for her wheelchair-bound son, flexing the full power of their car's handicapped sticker as petty revenge on a stickler doorman

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    Font - r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/saint_aura 10 hours ago The luxury hotel doorman wouldn't share the public 5 minute parking zone with a wheelchair van
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    Font - This happened a long time ago, when my brother and I were both teenagers, but I have never forgotten what a d this doorman was. My brother and I were out in the city, and our mum was coming to pick us up. My
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    Font - brother was a wheelchair user, so we couldn't just jump into the car and buckle up; mum needed a large space to be able to stop the van, lower the lift ramp, load him in, secure the straps to hold his wheelchair in place, and put the ramp back up. We could
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    Font - get this done in about two minutes in a rush, or a leisurely five or so. The longest part was waiting for the hydraulic lift to go down and up. We got the pickup address muddled up, and ended up
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    Font - way further down the road than we were meant to meet up. This was a busy and narrow street with cars parked all along both sides, and nowhere to stop. If mum stopped in the road and got out the ramp, the van would've been blocking traffic.
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    Font - As we were waiting, it started raining, and I ended up running down the road trying to find a shop awning to wait under. We saw mum's van coming down the road, and she kept driving, and we kept running until we found an empty space. We ended up
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    Font - out of the front of a luxury hotel, which had a 5 minute parking zone at the entrance. Mum pulled into the 5 minute zone, and I ran over drenched and pushing my brother's wheelchair. He was crying because he absolutely hated getting wet.
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    Font - Before mum was out of the van, the doorman of the hotel ran over and shouted at her that she wasn't allowed to park there, it was a hotel drop off zone only, she had to move her van now, what did she think she was doing blocking their entry like that?!
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    Font - It wasn't a hotel drop off zone only, it was and still is a public road, and the intent of the 5 minute parking spot is to allow for drop off and pick up in a high traffic, low parking availability area. My mum got in his face and shouted back
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    Font - that she had a disabled parking permit on her vehicle, and she was allowed by law to park for 10 minutes in the 5 minute zone. Back then I remember the rules of the disabled parking permit as any signposted
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    Font - parking limits were doubled, so a 5 minute zone would allow us to be there 10 minutes. I've just checked now and the rules are that anything signposted under 30 minutes allows up to 30 minutes of parking. Either
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    Font - way, we were legally allowed to stop in the 5 minute parking zone, and for longer than the time limit. We got the lift down, got my brother in and secured in the back of the van, got ourselves in, and sat there until ten minutes was up. The
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    Font - doorman stood by the car staring at us the whole time. We could've been in and gone in two minutes mate, this was your fault for shouting at a mum trying to get her crying child into the car.
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    Font - kevin_k 5 hr. ago . it was a hotel drop off zone only "Ok, call the police"
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    Font - techieguyjames. 4 hr. ago This is what I was thinking. This puts the onus on him to either call the police or go back to his post under the awning. He didn't want to have to explain their presence to his management.
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    Rectangle - TheRealTinfoil666 - 5 hr. ago When you only have one teensy tiny bit of power in your otherwise powerless life, you try to exert that bit as hard as you can...
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    Font - TheRealTinfoil666. 4 hr. ago I realized that he has perceived power rather than actual power here, but when it is all you got...
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    Font - CoderJoel 9 hr. ago That ramped up quickly 275 Reply Share Phatboybeware. 6 hr. ago OPs mum sounds like a wheelie cool person 87 Reply Share Takssista 4 hr. ago This surely lifted my spirits
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    Font - LyricalPolygon. 3 hr. ago Nice job. I would have spent the extra 5 minutes talking to the guy's boss.
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