Maybe I'm channeling my inner Andy Rooney, but yesterday was a good example of things that piss me off. Feel free to share your stories of things that piss you off as well..
Yesterday, I go to the local convenience store. As I'm pulling driving down the road about to pull left into a parking spot I spot this minivan almost perpendicular to the roadway with the wheel up against the curb. In the road, not moving.
I pull into a parking spot, get out, and have to walk past the van to get to the door. I looked over to see if someone was in the driver's seat but it was empty. There was a passenger though. It struck me that someone felt so f'ing privileged and pressed for time that they parked in the road (technically a fire lane too), tire against the curb, and left their vehicle to get some stupid item of some sort.
As I'm walking by I shake my head, laughing to myself, that in today's day and age people do this. Oh well, I enter the store to grab something. Some people walk out as I'm walking in. So in a few moments after I grabbed the single item I was looking for I'm at the counter and this woman walks in, about 40ish, and walks up to me at the counter. She asks if I was the one who laughed at her car while walking by a minute ago. I said something like "I suppose". She goes on to say that it was rude of me, and that it made her daughter who was in the car upset. I was caught a bit off guard, and said something along the lines that I wasn't laughing at her daughter, I was laughing because it looked like the car was parked by an idiot. She huffed a bit and said something along the lines of 'oh well, I've been hurting a lot lately'. Like that f'ing ten extra feet of walking would somehow rebuff her efforts at acquiring a Pop Tart. She didn't walk in with a limp, seemed plenty healthy, didn't have a handicap placard on her car. I looked at her like she was stupid, smiled and shaked my head as I turned to pay the clerk. She huffed and walked off when I turned my back to her.
OK, I can see maybe pulling up to the curb, it is a fire lane though, but to park against two lanes of traffic because you can't be bothered to walk a couple extra feet? The self centeredness is beyond the pale.
Yesterday, I go to the local convenience store. As I'm pulling driving down the road about to pull left into a parking spot I spot this minivan almost perpendicular to the roadway with the wheel up against the curb. In the road, not moving.
I pull into a parking spot, get out, and have to walk past the van to get to the door. I looked over to see if someone was in the driver's seat but it was empty. There was a passenger though. It struck me that someone felt so f'ing privileged and pressed for time that they parked in the road (technically a fire lane too), tire against the curb, and left their vehicle to get some stupid item of some sort.
As I'm walking by I shake my head, laughing to myself, that in today's day and age people do this. Oh well, I enter the store to grab something. Some people walk out as I'm walking in. So in a few moments after I grabbed the single item I was looking for I'm at the counter and this woman walks in, about 40ish, and walks up to me at the counter. She asks if I was the one who laughed at her car while walking by a minute ago. I said something like "I suppose". She goes on to say that it was rude of me, and that it made her daughter who was in the car upset. I was caught a bit off guard, and said something along the lines that I wasn't laughing at her daughter, I was laughing because it looked like the car was parked by an idiot. She huffed a bit and said something along the lines of 'oh well, I've been hurting a lot lately'. Like that f'ing ten extra feet of walking would somehow rebuff her efforts at acquiring a Pop Tart. She didn't walk in with a limp, seemed plenty healthy, didn't have a handicap placard on her car. I looked at her like she was stupid, smiled and shaked my head as I turned to pay the clerk. She huffed and walked off when I turned my back to her.
OK, I can see maybe pulling up to the curb, it is a fire lane though, but to park against two lanes of traffic because you can't be bothered to walk a couple extra feet? The self centeredness is beyond the pale.
