You don't sit in your damn car with your tail lights on!
It's nerve wracking driving to school in the morning. I have to put up with drivers that are content to drive five miles under the speed limit, refuse to merge in a timely manner, and get in the way of everybody. Once that's over with though, and I get to school, I still need to get a parking space. There are more students that drive than there are parking spots, so just imagine what kind of hell that can be.
I get to school this morning and classes still have two minutes before they let out, and that translates to four minutes at least until students get out to their cars. It doesn't seem like it will be a problem, because there's a red Dodge Durango sitting with it's tail light on. I don't care where you're from, but that's a universal symbol for "I'm backing up now." Some people take longer to do it, but they eventually get out of the spot.
So I wait. I keep waiting. I keep patiently waiting for this nice lady to get her shit together and move! By then, a truck was sitting behind me ignoring me as I tried to wave him around. So I decided to see what was going on.
I got out of my car and walked up to the driver's side of the idling, red Durango. I knocked on the window, spooking the lady (good) who rolled down her window and asked in a very rude way,
"What?"
"Umm, sorry, but are you moving?" I asked, very politely I might add.
"No." she replied, again, very rudely, as she was rolling up her window.
I smiled, said "Thanks." and went back to my car, ignoring the burning urge to do anything rude back. I didn't honk, shout "Then turn off your damn lights!", or make any gesture. I just got back in my car and found an even better parking spot.
But damn. The bitch knows that people are desperate for parking, and there's no reason to have your lights on teasing and tricking the people desperate for parking. I'll just be content with the fantasy of her suffering the annoyance as me.
Or getting a rock through her rear window from somebody with zero tolerance for jerks. Either or really, I'm not picky.
One Happy Bunch
5 years ago
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We have the same issue here... Although, I HATE it when people stalk me to my car. HATE IT. So... I sit in my car for a long time and make them wait. If they were to ask me nicely "Are you moving your car?" I would say yeah, it's the black jeep up there. But they like to stalk me and stop so close behind my car that I could take off the front half of theirs if I really wanted to..I make them aware of this as I back up close enough to make them tinkle a little. I also like to play the game "try to get to my car without anyone seeing me" so no one knows I'm leaving and someone else gets my spot. It's rather amusing.
Yeah. Thankfully I'm pretty fast out of the classroom and get to my car before people start looking for a space.
Whenever I do see somebody circling in their car and I'm leaving, I'll wave them down and show them where I parked. I like to think this good karma is why I have such good luck finding great parking spots :)
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