‘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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  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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-
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • entitlement people have against young people with disabilities.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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