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Last minute shopping before a trip; where do I head? Walmart, of course, because of the Curbside Classics in the parking lot. No time for a full-on Walmart Concours today, but I do need a cart. Oh here’s a nice one that should do the job. And there’s another…
Two, actually. OK, must not get distracted. But then one has to walk by the handicapped parking on the way in…
I had seen it before, as it drove into the parking lot. The driver looked distinctly unhandicapped, physically anyway. Who am I to judge?
One the way out, I encounter someone who certainly doesn’t want to be judged.
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Good definition of a Toyota: motorized shopping cart for people.
I wish riding in a toyota was as fun as riding the shopping cart!
I find that the Christmas holidays are a great time for car-spotting at parking lots like this. Older folks and those who just don’t get out much are out doing their Christmas shopping in their funky old cars that seldom get out.
RE: picture #3, it’s not the driver that’s handicapped, you see, it’s the car that’s physically handicapped!
The real treasure here is in the background of the Bug pic – a Toyota Corona (not Corolla) wagon! My family owned 2 Coronas in the late ’70s. They were indestructible, even for drunk/stoned teenagers with a death wish. Haven’t seen one for 15 years; I assume rust eventually killed them, because I know nothing else could.
+1!!
first car was an ’82 Corona hatch…2.2L RWD classic…robin’s egg blue…hot…tried as I might, I could not kill it…and we tried
Yup, my dad had a ’75 Corona station wagon (in lovely turd brown) for many, many years. I spent most of my childhood being driven to school and sports in that car. Rust killed it eventually; it was actually still running in ’89 when he was going to give it to me to drive, but rust had rotted the anchor points of the springs right off the car and it was unsafe to drive so he had to junk it. Sad, really.
Lots of old Coronas still here. Will do a CC before long.
You don’t think driving a 40+ year old Plymouth Valiant is a handicap?
Maybe it’s just me, for I never cared for them, but old VW bugs look classier the older they get, especially the two-toned ones. Must be the chrome/bright trim. Modern cars look nice in shape, but they lack character and class without some sort of bright trim that instills pride of ownership.
Parking in handicapped spots,when your not really handicapped? Hmmm seems to me that the “big guy/girl” whatever you percieve him/her to be,may just frown on such behavour.
Like if your so inclined to park in handicapped,maybe he or she could arange it that you could park there all the time.
On another note. How obese to you have to be to qualify for a permit? One would think,that if wieght was a problem,why not walk a little further?
I better shut up before I get into s–t.
Wow…an oregon plate on a prius. Wouldn’t that SOOOOOOO be the state to have a dual sport? Probably get 50mpg and take the short cuts through the woods.
A lot of people do have dual-sports, although the dunes require more specialized kit.
The bigger surprise is another Walmart, for a variety or reasons they are pretty thin on the ground in Oregon. I only knew of 5, East Portland, Woodburn, Newport, Bend, and the new one in Cornelius.
I must defend the handicapped tag picture a little bit. I blew out my knee a couple of years ago and had ACL surgery, and was given a handicapped tag to cover me during the time I was rehabbing it. After rehabbing for a few months I could walk normally from all outward appearance, but couldn’t walk very far without a lot of pain. Anyone seeing me emerge from my car when I put it in a handicapped spot might have thought I was a scam artist, but I assure you the need was very genuine.
The spelling on “I´m not a hippie… Not smug…” seems wrong to the point of being annoying. Admittedly English is my third language but shouldn´t it be more like “nor am i smug”, or just “or smug”.
The number of disabled tags showing up in car windshields has skyrocketed in Philadelphia, and that isn’t because more people are getting disabled, or more disabled people are getting cars.
Cops are loath to ask suspicious drivers what their disability is, as it isn’t always visually apparent, but it is technically the law that disabled drivers need to carry a separate card confirming their disabled status, and must present it to an officer when he requests it.
Of course, cops are loath to request that, too. It’s a touchy subject; probably why so many non-disabled or relations of the disabled get away with it. But disabled tag fraud is hardly a victimless crime.
NPR did a nice peice on this issue yesterday, transcript and audio here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130162191
Notice, this being Walmart, that the shopping cart corrals are EMPTY. Because the carts are always left in the middle of the parking lot. Because it’s too hard to walk them 20 feet to the nearest corral.
I was once walking through a parking lot between cars and a fat, lazy woman on her cellphone wheeled her cart RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME and left it there, blocking my path, while looking right at me. Directly to her left? A shopping cart corral.
There are 2 Wal-Marts in the Eugene area, Redmond has built one abandoned it and now has a bigger one. Ontario has one to draw sales tax free shoppers from Idaho .. There are more..
This must be TTAC cars my family used to own day. 1st it’s the Isuzu I-Mark diesel, my mom had a automatic and my dad a 5 speed. He also had a Chevette diesel 2dr 5 speed as a commuter car. The automatic eventually blew it’s head gasket and they traded it in for the 1st 91 Saturn SL.
My sister owned that same Corolla though a 77 silver 2dr base model 1200cc 4 speed with of all things; a manual choke. It was quite efficient and reliable. She drove it till the rust got to it and sold it.
Back in the 70’s my dad had that same 68 Valient in yellow w/ 3 on the tree. I learned to drive stick on it.