Wednesday, July 6, 2011

parking lot...

Some days I just want to be that road rage person...
Leaving the gym this evening I was making my way through the parking lot.  It is an odd little parking lot - it's more like a road than a huge lot.  But I dont think it has an official county/city name so I consider it a parking lot.  Either way the rest of the story is shocking...
So I am gradually leaving the lot going down the street.  There is a car pulled off on the left - it looks to be having difficulty.  Let's hope so - there was a guy wedged up underneath it.  I watch as I slowly (thankfully) roll along.  Up ahead I notice a woman (I assume the mom) and a little boy coming out of one of the shops on my left and begin to make their way across the parking lot/street. 
Now was I far enough away to warrant this action?  Perhaps...  I guess my slow crawl pace gave them a sense of security.
This is when I want to jump out of the car and start raging on the woman.
Even if I was far enough away.  Even if I was at a crawl.  Shoot - I could have even been on my bike and this behavior warranted some yelling.  Preferably the mom at the child.
WHY!?
The child in his flip flops sucking on some sort of milkshake or soda, decided to cross the parking lot/street scuffling along backwards.  And he wasnt even good at it - it got a little misdirected - was heading more in a diagnal - spending even more time in the middle of the road....
AND he was a SMALL child...  And she's standing at the car with her driver's door open just watching him.
HELLO!!!!  What are people thinking?!?!

Instead I concentrated on the fact that I had forgotten a towel and change of clothes in my gym bag and was pretty wet an uncomfortable... not to mention it was starting to drizzle on my freshly washed car...

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