Last night, as I was driving down the main laneway in a parking lot, an entire family stepped out in front of me. I stopped rather close to them by necessity and the woman yelled at me through my open window, “We’ve got kids here, you could wait your turn!” I hmphed and drove away. When I got home, my adult son told me I should have retorted, “I’ve got a car here, you could wait yours!”
From now on I’m not leaving home without my 21 year old son. I’m sure he’ll be pleased with that arrangement.
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October 15, 2015 at 2:43 pm
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings !!! ❤
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October 15, 2015 at 10:32 pm
Oh her attitude sucked all right. 😉
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October 14, 2015 at 5:18 pm
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October 14, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Your son made a good point. This happens to us all the time; people walking out in front of us in parking lots, streets, etc. What are they (not) thinking?
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October 14, 2015 at 12:56 pm
As John said, I’m sure a lot of the time it’s got to do with technological distractions. Scary stuff!
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October 14, 2015 at 1:06 pm
I believe that. People rarely even look up these days. I kid you not – one day we saw a man walking down the sidewalk eating pizza, while watching a movie on his phone which was placed on top of the pizza box…
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October 14, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Incredible. Only a matter of time before someone gets pulled over driving and watching a movie. In fact I’d be surprised if it’s not already a daily occurrence. 😛
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October 14, 2015 at 1:13 pm
That’s so terrifying. It’s already bad enough with all the texting, drinking, etc. We can’t afford for it to get worse.
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October 14, 2015 at 9:52 am
Some people are just rude
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October 14, 2015 at 10:24 am
They are!
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October 14, 2015 at 11:02 am
😦
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October 14, 2015 at 11:06 am
Yep.
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October 14, 2015 at 9:51 am
I’m glad Mary’s doing all the driving now. I’m afraid I’d run over a kid in a parking lot while his mother walked behind, texting or talking on the damn phone.
I always look around me in parking lots before I try to walk anywhere, because both drivers and other pedestrians have this tendency to space out there. My guess is the lady who yelled at you and her whole family walked out from behind a van or SUV, or had been cutting through the lot between cars and popped out like a Jack-in-the-box. I swear, there are people who think drivers are clairvoyant…
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October 14, 2015 at 10:23 am
That’s the thing – if anything (unless she was distracted as you say) she just assumed I would stop because she was on foot and with kids. It wasn’t raining or anything, it was a beautiful night and there wasn’t a crosswalk in sight. Just a case I think of self-importance – her tone implied as much.
Parking lots are indeed scary things though. Having a Deaf child has taught me that more than anything.
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October 14, 2015 at 9:47 am
Maybe she was tired of her kids and life Linda, there are many ways out 😉
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October 14, 2015 at 9:50 am
I think it was more a matter of not paying attention to what she was doing and then blaming me for it to save face. 😛 One more of the entitled…
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October 14, 2015 at 8:04 am
or perhaps: “Why are you TRYING to kill your children? Shame on you!” and then leave really quickly!
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October 14, 2015 at 8:06 am
Exactly! What was she thinking?
I do think the leaving really quickly part would have been important in that circumstance. hehe. 🙂
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