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October 14, 2007

RAGING ANGER, FURY, DISCRIMINATION

It has been sometime since I have felt discriminated against. 
The other evening a friend and myself went out to dinner to one of our favorite restaurants.  There were no parking spaces so we parked in a bank parking lot in the handicap designated spot. We went to dinner under an hour. Walking toward our car in the lot we noticed that our car was gone.  All of a sudden we saw a tow truck leaving the lot with my car on the back. My friend had to run to catch up with the truck. I have no idea what I would do if I had been alone. I was livid and did not understand why I was being towed. I am very sensitive to parking issues as I use Handicap spaces a lot.  I asked the driver is he tows handicap people all the time and if he got pleasure out of it. He said to me, "WELL YOU DO NOT LOOK HANDICAP. YOU WALKED ACROSS THE STREET AND ARE STANDING NOW." I went ballistic! I was very confrontational and was trying to be rational. But this driver was uneducated and uninformed. My friend convinced him to take the car off the truck, of course for a cost.
I was so livid for two days. I called the tow truck business and spoke to the owner. He was very upset by the remark his driver made and promised to take care of the situation.  I leaned from him that the parking lot is owned by WALGREEN'S. A huge corporation. They have a contract with the towing company to tow any car in the lot if the person in the car is not patronizing their store. The tow company lures parkers into the lot, with lack of sign-age and then tows them.  The truck sits in the back of the lot and watches people all night long. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!  The owner also said that getting any resolve with Walgreen's is almost impossible. They have the right to do whatever they want on private property.  They city will do nothing. It did not matter if the handicap place was legal or not, it was on private property.  I am still quite angry. I did not like the comment and attitude of the driver.  I began thinking about how other slights and wrongs are made against Handicap persons everyday. I need to be a voice for this injustices.
I will call WALGREEN'S and got through the hoops. I WILL NOT frequent that specific store ever. I wish I could boycott all Walgreen's but they are so huge that my one small voice is not good enough.  So I am on a campaign to right wrongs! My anger is fuel.

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