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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!bberbeni
- From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
- Subject: Oh, Jason! Will you bring the beemer around?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.030225.4572@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 03:02:25 GMT
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- Bigass peeve here: Yestiddy, I wuz out wid me brudder, the cripple. He
- drives a nice, big, powerful Chevy truck, but he is no less the cripple.
- He generally always takes advantage of his handicapped tags and parks in
- those parking spaces with the blue background and the little stickman
- seated with a hoop coming outta his butt. The so-called "handicapped"
- spaces.
-
- So, brudder and I pull up and park in front of an Atlanta eatery. As we
- get outta the truck, some self-righteous pair of yups decides to really
- scrutinize us (couple of young, apparently healthy guys) up and down and
- then to register dispproving looks upon their faces as they continue
- walking onward.
-
- Well, they, too were going into the the same place. As the four of us
- waited out front to be seated, brudder pulls up his pants leg enough
- for the yups to see the horrible scarring from a foot amputated, then
- reattached at the ankle. "I believe that is what you were looking
- for?," he said coolly.
-
- The woman looked to be on the verge of either tears or nausea. I
- couldn't tell which. She excused herself with Mr. Yup and went off
- to the toilet. That, of course, was the anti-peeve. Something
- about the color and/or texture of scar tissue that some people just
- cannot handle. Poor Heather!
-
- Yours for the mobility disadvantaged,
- Bill
- --
- No, you do not know me.
- Yes, I KNOW I look like someone you know. - Bill Berbenich, net.hedonist
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