While it is true that parking becomes somewhat hazardous when the snowbanks are significantly taller than the average person's head, it probably shouldn't be excuse for bad driving manners. This afternoon, Meghanne, Jon, Diana, and I decided to go shopping. We pulled into the North Shore Mall, drove into a parking spot, and adjusted so that we were between the half-obscured-by-slush white lines. While we were getting out of the car - mind you, this is a Volkswagen Beetle - a lady in an SUV drives up behind us and says, "HEY! What do you think you're doing?!?" We must have looked shocked, because she went on to yell, "Can't you SEE that you're taking up, like, THREE spaces?!??"
We looked at her. Then we looked at Meghanne's little car that was very obviously in only one parking spot. Then we looked back at her and said something to the effect of, "Uhhh.....we're definitely only taking up one." She neglected to respond and drove off in a huff.
When we returned to the car after our shopping expedition involving free chocolate (among other things), we found her large SUV parked in the spot immediately adjacent to ours, with lots of room to spare on either side. People are funny sometimes.
1 comment:
"Funny" is a very nice way of describing people like that!
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