‘I laughed, told her to go away’: 50-year-old woman losses it over young woman parked in handicapped spot, gets put in her place by security and nurses

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 12, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

There are certain accommodations that societies provide for their citizens with disabilities. Things like ramps, brail signage, and, of course, handicap parking spots. However, there are always those few individuals who try to take advantage of things that do not belong to them. Not so much the ramps or brail, but definitely the handicap parking spots. These spots are important for people with disabilities because it gives them enough space to do what they gotta do to get out of the car and gets them close to the establishment they're trying to reach. It's usually a large fine for parking in one of these spots when you do not carry the proper credentials for it. 

 

However, sometimes people who really do need the spot and have the credentials still get scruff because they aren't the poster child for "disabilities." Take, for instance, young people with a non-physical disabilities. Young people with disabilities are always getting flak because they don't "look like" they have anything "wrong" with them. 

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  • Take, for instance, this woman who had just gone through a nightmare of a week as her partner with disabilities had a medical emergency that had him in the hospital for a week. Finally, when he was ready to return home, his partner came to pick him up and the staff told her to park in the handicap spot as they go to bring him out. She has the handicap credentials for her partner, so she puts them on the car. And yet, a 50-something-year-old Karen still pulled up and started yelling at her for parking there… Luckily, everyone was on the side of the young woman and quickly put and end to this tantrum. 

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  • This was wild. I was picking my disabled partner up from the hospital, where he had been for the last 2 weeks from a life threatening incident.
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  • His team told me not to worry about traveling up to the ward, that they would escort him down to the car with his stuff if I grabbed a disabled spot. Great. I grabbed
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  • a disabled spot as close to the ward as possible, put his disabled badge on display, and waited. Then I hear a "excuse me". I pop my head
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  • out the window. A lady (50s) has pulled up behind me. She asks me to move as she has her disabled mother with her and needs the space. I explained that I was
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  • waiting for my disabled partner and that I needed the space. She said, "well go wait somewhere else, I need this space. My mother is disabled, and you're
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  • not." I could have handled this more gracefully, but instead I laughed, told her to go away, put my head back in the car and turned the radio up. This set her
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  • OFF. She got out of her car, walked up to my window, called me r_de and unsympathetic, accused me of abusing a disabled badge, and demanded
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  • I move. I did not feel any need to explain my situation to this entitled lady. I had had a truly awful 2 weeks thinking I was going to lose my partner. I don't know
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  • why I did it, I knew it would set her off more, but I was over it. I said "smile" and took her picture. Oh boy... She was absolutely flabbergasted. She
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  • whipped out a card that said "press" on it, and told me that she worked for the press and if I didn't delete the picture there would be legal action.
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  • By this point, I was locked in. I told her "nah imma keep it", and took another picture. She then started SCREAMING for security. Everyone was looking. She gave
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  • me a sh eating grin when security started walking over, like a "you're in real trouble now" grin. Security came over.
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  • All they see is this very angry and rather large lady at my window and me in my car. She demanded they take my phone and delete the photos, and
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  • demanded that they tell me to move my car. She was waving her press card around like it was a police badge. The security literally had this face-
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  • They look at me, look at the disabled badge, look at her. They told her to leave as she was very clearly harassing me, that I was doing nothing wrong by parking in a
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  • disabled bay, and that I was allowed to take photos of someone harassing me. Her sh eating grin turned into a shocked pikachu face. She called us all
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  • c***ts, got back in her car and left. Partner then arrived, being escorted by his nurse. We all (partner and I, security and nurse) had a good chuckle at the
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  • entitlement people have against young people with disabilities.
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  • Edit: I think it's important to mention that to access the disabled carpark, I had to go through a barrier with security who verified the badge and my use of it.
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  • De-railled Did you take a photo of her ID by any chance? I'm sure her work would love an excuse to get rid of her. pippagator OP I didn't, annoyingly. I never had any intention of using the photos. I just had this overwhelming urge to annoy her more.
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  • elevenohnoes Unless you live in a major city, there's only going to be so many news outlets around. Just email the photo you do have around to any you can find asking if this woman works there and explain what she did and how she tried to ab e her employers name to get her way.
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  • pippagator OP I did debate doing this. But ultimately, she was there with her disabled Mum. And the disabled parking at our hospital is a sh show and stressful for everyone. Whilst she acted like an entitled bu y trying to intimidate me out of my spot, I can recognise that she's probably going through a tough time too and I hope the humble pie security served her was enough of a lesson.
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