I saw the baby. That is an awesome photo. Also, the mechanic cat fixing the car.

rlly

My granddaughter arrived...........Lacey Ann

Is she real or Photoshopped?

Bugspost, congratulations on Lacey Ann.

Why does the age of the Internet photo remove the possibility of animal and child abuse?

Amanda, sorry your Garmin was stolen. What is that, anyway?

the photo of the kid and cat flying in the air on the boat is superimposed..

I certainly hope so, Bugs. But if they aren't flying in the air going into the water, they are flying on something going onto. . . hard ground? And if it is all fake, are we then supposed to laugh at what would be a painful landing? That makes us enjoy the idea of a child and a cat having a hard landing. What kind of people does that make us?

It is just a picture from the internet..........I don't know its origin.....sorry if it bothers anyone.

No harm done. Forget it.

SS--lighten up. Phony pictures have made the rounds of the internet since it began and since the invention of photography in the 1840's. The child could have been bouncing in his bed originally and the cat jumping up onto a shelf. Don't overanalyze. It's just for fun.

Okay, this is NOT superimposed........talk about an employee taking instructions literally:









Imagine the conversation went something like this:

Walmart Employee: "Hello 'dis Walmarts, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Yes, I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week."
Walmart Employee: "Whatchu want on da cake?"
Customer : "Best Wishes Suzanne." And underneath that "We will miss you".

That's so funny, bugs. You made my night. Ding-a-ling employees.

Garmin = GPS

Sandra Sue Wrote:
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> Amanda, sorry your Garmin was stolen. What is
> that, anyway?


Does anyone else find this image to be, um.. politically incorrect?

There's a fine of up to $200 if you're not handicapped. So?

Amanda, my husband of 42 years use a wheelchair and/or cruches for his mobility,(he is a polio victim with braces on his legs), sometimes we can't find a handicapped parking because able people park in the wrong spot, and there isn't a van accesible parking to put the wheelchair down, I know that people are in a hurry and park whatever they think that is correct to do, but unable people need those parkings too.
Are you heard about ADA?, people with disability have right too.

Isabel
Enjoy life that it is too short.

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I'm sorry you have that problem, Izzy. I've heard of that issue before. Some disabled people don't show it. When I see someone I don't know parking at a disabled parking spot, I think they have a condition I don't recognize. One of my Urban Planning courses in graduate school addressed that.

Maybe you can sometimes double park to offload him and then go find a place. I'm guessing that stores do not have enough handicapped parking. I often see it available, but our population is aging, and they probably ought to consider that possibility.

I spent last weekend driving around a woman who uses a scooter. We went to a convention together. I had to be patient. I am always in a hurry. She never is, and never has been. We found enough handicapped parking, but I knew her before she was handicapped with her disease. She was also my roommate. We got along just fine. I was only two hours late the first day. The rest of the time, I got to participate in all the procedings. I used to be a patient person. I need to practice that again.

Sandra Sue Wrote:
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When I see someone I don't know parking
> at a disabled parking spot, I think they have a
> condition I don't recognize.

Often it's so unrecognizable that they have no handicap tag either.

My mother has a spinal cord injury and uses the parking. She pointed the sign out and asked me to take a picture of it because she found it to be offensive. Where we're from, signs are not labeled for "the handicapped" but use the term disability, which we believe sounds less helpless. I haven't seen the word "handicapped" on any public signs.


My previous career had me working as a nurse, and while I helped my client, the mother would drive us to places and use the disability parking without proper tags. I called her on it once, and she literally told me to, "shut up, I can park where I want" and went on the long rant about how these spaces are designed for heavyset people like her and how doctors are conspiring against overweight people because they're tricking them into walking farther so they can loose more weight. (WHAT?!) Needless, it made me mad because there was a van circling the parking lot waiting for a spot -- and my client happened to cut in front of the van to get it.

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Here the spaces are called "handicapped parking" though frequently they just use the international symbol for the disabled and frequently have a warning of fines. Most lots here have a disproportionately high number of reserved spaces for the disabled that are frequently the only vacant spots in the lot. Then there are the "reserved" spaces for 'customers with small infants', 'associate of the month', 'Take Out Parking' etc. etc. It can be very annoying to run past 8 empty spaces (4 on each side of the aisle) with special designations in the pouring rain, but we do it. I don't know that there is a better way.

When my sweetie's spine had deteriorated enough that the surgeon was finally willing to operate, he had been in excruciating pain for more than six months. I would drop him at the door and go find a place to park while he went in to find an electric cart so he could accompany me in stores. Stores without electric carts or wheelchairs available he could not shop. But disabled permits were not available to him because the MD would not issue the form because he was supposed to be doing some walking. Post-operatively they gave him authorization for a temporary (6 weeks) disabled permit. It was interesting to me to see that "Legally blind" was a reason to get a permit while difficulty walking other than for a few specified causes (and obesity was not one of them) was not considered to be a reason at all. I laughed about the "legally blind" because the enabling legislation for the disabled spaces is clear that they are to allow the disabled the ability to function independently. I.e. it is not the intent of the legislation so much that a companion be able to park but that that the disabled person be able to drive, park and shop independently.

Sorry, Amanda, but here they're also universally called "handicapped spots." It's a regional difference, I guess, so we missed your intent. I need a knee replacement, can't walk very far, and I don't like the idea of having my permit called "handicapped" or "disabled," because it's a temporary thing, although maybe for several years more.

In NY, if they have no obvious disability, most likely they're parked there illegally. People know what they can get away with in their area.

Lacey Ann---5 days old!!

bugspost Wrote:
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> Okay, this is NOT superimposed........talk about
> an employee taking instructions literally:
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> Imagine the conversation went something like
> this:
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> Walmart Employee: "Hello 'dis Walmarts, how can I
> help you?"
> Customer: "Yes, I would like to order a cake for a
> going away party this week."
> Walmart Employee: "Whatchu want on da cake?"
> Customer : "Best Wishes Suzanne." And underneath
> that "We will miss you".


That's why I like to come to the forum before I go to bed.
One big laugh - heart attack prevention!!!

Thanks for this one and have a good night.

Veronika

Such a cute baby!

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My 4 blessings:

Really enjoying the pictures, all.....keep the coming!

How's this for stupid??

Surely it's a joke. Surely?