If I Owned a Tank

This story might have ended differently. 

I ran a quick errand to the Hallmark store in my little town and parked on a handicapped spot, tossed my little temporary handicapped sticker in the front dash and hobbled with my crutches into the store. 

The store is in a local strip mall so there are very few parking spaces that are that far from the store, but it was nice to get one that didn't take me five minutes to get to the store. 

It's a great hallmark store, especially for my little town. When I was buying my great niece a birthday present, the clerk asked me if I had a fortune cookie. I had no idea what she was talking about. Then she offers me a basket full of cookies and said that whatever discount was in the cookie was my discount for my entire purchase. 

Ok, I thought that was a nice touch. I opened the cookie and the darned thing had a 40% discount!!!!  If I had known that I would have bought quite a bit more.  Dang, that was a nice surprise. 

So I happily waltzed, well as much as you can waltz with crutches, out to my handy parked car. 

That was when I nearly blew a gasket. 

Some freaking idiot, sans any type of handicapped plate, sticker, or other identifying result, not only parked in a handicapped space, but so close, I could barely manage to get in my car on the driver's side. 

He literally parked about 12 inches from my driver's side door. 

I should have taken a picture. I got this one from google which, I'll admit is actually closer than my idiot, I might have had an extra five inches over this one, but still not enough to easily get in my car. 

I stood outside debating between calling the local cops to ticket the SOB illegally parked in a handicapped space or waiting until the creep came out to their car so I could ask them just how I was supposed to get in my car without climbing in the passenger door or slamming my car door to leave a horrible nasty dent in their passenger door. 

If I had been driving some piece for crap car, I would have done the latter. Surprisingly the knucklehead had a fairly nice car. 

Instead I left a nasty note about their illegally parking in a handicapped spot and parking so close that made someone else barely able to get in their car. He had plenty of space of the driver's side, so he had no excuse. 

I wish I had a copy of the pic below to leave under the windshield wiper.