That is really cool, @pubultrastar! It’s easy to see why it attracts attention.
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Wow…that’s quite a truck. I was surprised to see that the whole side of the truck opened up. You have quite a ride and I can see why it draws so much attention. I was also quite taken by your video. Very nice. Glad you have a way to get around.
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Do the regular doors on the left still function? Way cool either way.
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The passenger side doors still work as normal, but drivers side is gull wing only.
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That’s so cool! Now as long as when you park in a handicapped spot some idiot doesn’t park next to you where you can’t open your door. I’ve seen that happen where those who are in wheelchairs can’t get in their vehicles because the person parking next to them blocks the ramp.
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Happens all the time. I live near a Sun City in Hilton Head South Carolina, and there are lots of people who think they can park in handicapped whether they have a placard or just because they’re old. I’ve only had to wait three or four times for people to come back, but I’m getting less patient. The older that I get and should probably just start calling the cops on them. People are entitled and feel that they can park anywhere, but now they’re on a handicap. I see it much. Much more. Don’t be that guy
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Don’t worry, I’m not that guy. We always park far out in the parking lot and walk (which helps us get our steps in!). It irritates me when I see someone park in a handicap space, get out of their vehicle, and just walk like nothing’s wrong. I may be judgmental, but to me if they can walk like that, they need to let the people who are unable to freely walk have that space. When we had my husband’s stepmom living with us, she was on oxygen and had to use a walker. We did get a handicapped tag for her, but we never abused it and the only time we ever parked in handicapped was if she was physically with us in the vehicle.
I have a good friend who’s husband became wheelchair bound, and they recently were able to get a wheelchair-ready van. But they have to use a ramp in the side of the van, and they often have someone park so close they can’t get the ramp in or out.
I’ve often thought of leaving a nasty note on vehicles like that, but figure it wouldn’t do any good, as the people who park like that don’t care about others anyway.
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You don’t know what someone else’s situation is and it is not for you to judge.
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Yeah Who knows, they may walk normally at first but have some sort of a fatigue or pain issue that makes it impossible for them to walk very far.
You hear about people taking advantage of handicap tags that they don’t really need, but I figure if 10 people get away with gaming the system and even one person who is not immediately visibly disabled gets a good parking spot then the system is working.
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Yes, you never know what their handicap is as it may not be something that is apparently visible. The people that don’t have handicap tags or placards and park there are the ones that bother me. I had a woman parked me in one time and it took about 15 minutes to track her down, and she was with three kids. Her comment to me was I knew this was going to happen. I just kept my mouth shut but was thinking in my head. What a terrible example to set for her kids because she felt entitled and didn’t want to walk the extra. But obviously I am hyper aware of parking wherever I go, especially if I drive because I don’t want to get parked in. Businesses tend to put the absolute minimum van accessible parking spaces so many times there just isn’t enough.
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I know that. I was chastising myself. Every time I judge someone, I ask forgiveness, for I know I am no better.
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There are so many ways “to be that guy.” I was in someone else’s car, so he pulled in to let me off and a woman ran over to us and started yelling about his not having a sticker. All I did was pull up a pant leg with a dozen centipedes on it (no longer as fluorescent pink as originally, but very large and visible) and she shut up mid-word.
The attitude I suspect to be common in S. Carolina and deeper than grabbing a space was working at a place where the assigned Disabled Parking was at the furthest corner of a very large lot so I had to arrive very early to get a parking space I could manage to get to my desk from. My legs were better than they are now, but all I had was a cane. If I had called the cops on them I would be the one abused as that attitude is common in that part of town.
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I parked in one of two available handicapped spaces (with a permit) to allow my husband (who was disabled) to go into physical therapy. Before I could even get out of the car, a young woman pulled up into the other spot, jumped out of her car to go into a postal connection store. I could see she had no permit and confronted her right then…I told her I was going to call the police. She protested and whined, but I did call the police. They came right away, but didn’t really do anything but tell her she wasn’t supposed to park there. It really pissed me off.
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I had a situation where someone parked me in at a football game and there was a cop literally right there. Although he helped me track down the people parked in the blue lines illegally, he didn’t want to take the time to give them a ticket. Unless there’s consequences, people will still continue to do it. Apparently I’m too kind and too patient to ever say anything while it’s happening, I just come online and b**** about it to my favorite laser forum.
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Yeah. I can’t stand when people who don’t have tags park there. However, I can sometimes understand it. For example, I injured my back a couple of years ago, and it still hurts, every single day. I never park in the handicap spots, since I don’t have tags, but every step I take I feel sharp pain in my back, so taking fewer steps would definitely benefit me. Not every one can just suck it up and bear it, but if not, they should get the tags.
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As noted before, all the break-ins, thefts, etc. I have never had a positive police action to deal with crimes. Traffic issues are a bit more likely, but “giving them a good talking to” sounds like what I would expect.
We used to have stuff that hung on the mirror so if you went from car to car you could use it for the car you were in. Now with the back door chair lift, folk don’t look for more proof.
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Daaaaaamn
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Yeah it’s stuff like this that reinforces my belief that it’s arrogance to think there isn’t intelligent life out there. There are around fourteen million galaxies in that survey.
There are about a hundred million stars in an average galaxy, so that works out to about 1.4 quadrillion stars. 1,400,000,000,000,000. If even a small fraction of them (wild guess, one in ten million?) have planets that could yield intelligent life, that’s still 140 million stars with those types of planets.
And this is a small slice (1%) of the night sky. The numbers are beyond boggling.
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The same human arrogance that says we’re the only truly intelligent life on the planet, also insists we’re alone in the universe. Yet every time we try to test that first theory (only species that use tools? Nope. Only species that mourns? Nope. Only species that does group projects? Nope) we figure out we’re wrong! If we ever get the opportunity to test the second one…
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