People are so rude

[HannaBelle]

People are very rude!!!

I do have to admit that I have become a MUCH more tolerant driver after teaching my DS16 how to drive. The poor thing was honked at all the time for the slightest hesitation.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

you should have shut the door, then turned and leaned aginst your car with your arms folded, and just look at the driver with no expression.

I bet she would have pulled out and found another spot.

(I did that once to a driver that actually beeped at me when I was loading something into my car.) (he did move on!)

(DW says that I intimidate people, I don't see it. hehehehehhehehe)

 

[dakcp2001]

Wow, that would have made me move a LOT slower. SO slow in fact, I may have had to stand in the spot looking really confused, like I was not sure what she needed. lol. ANd shrugging at her.

 

[PhotobearSam]

Any one who has to have a sign on thier car or anything else saying that they are a "CHRISTIAN" usually does so because there is no other way to tell.

They usually don't act, live, or behave like a Christian so they must have a sign or how else would you know. In my experience the worst examples of a Christians are always the ones who advertise it. Just seems to be a common thing I have noticed.

Also beware of people who have bumper stickers (secular or not) or grown people with loads of stuffed animals in their rear window.

AMEN!!!!! I could not agree more. I have had people yelling at me they want a late check out and I should give it to them for free cause they are asking nicely...If that is their idea of nice, I would hate to see their cranky side.

 

[delilah]

I remember a similar incident years ago while unbuckling my 9mo son in the car seat in the back passenger side. I was standing in the next space, with the door wide open. Actually, this was in the hospital parking lot, at the hospital daycare in a special spot labeled "10 minute parking, daycare only". Only in this case, it was a drug rep who was in such a dang-blamed hurry that she almost nailed me and my infant son. I am a doctor, and I called her on it right then and there. Didn't get so much as an apology. All I got was "there is room for my car, even with your door open, and you carrying a baby at daybreak in the parking space". Well, I simply pointed out to her that the sign said "10 minutes only, daycare only", so, she was in violation, no matter what.

 

[sbell111]

I simply can't understand why you guys allow other people to get you so worked up over such little things like parking lot discourtesy. Take a breat. Move on. Let it go.

Also, people who confront others (or choose to actually damage their vehicles) are as bad or worse than the original rude people, in my opinion.

 

[kaytieeldr]

grown people with loads of stuffed animals in their rear window.

Does Mickey and Minnie count? LOL

No. They're real people. Characters. Mice. I dunno - but there's no need to beware of adults with tons of stuffed Disney characters in their rear window.

I have decreed, and it is so

 

[Jennasis]

I simply can't understand why you guys allow other people to get you so worked up over such little things like parking lot discourtesy. Take a breat. Move on. Let it go.

Also, people who confront others (or choose to actually damage their vehicles) are as bad or worse than the original rude people, in my opinion.

Nobody is "so worked up". I got the impression that most of the "retaliatory advice" was tongue in cheek. Of course I appreciate your differing opinion (though not terribly different, since I actually didn't DO anything in response to the lady trying to push me out of the space wih her car).

The nice thing is, you don't have to understand. It is what it is.

 

[agnes!]

Jennasis -

This is OT, but I just wanted to say that I LOVE those pics in your signature. "GET TO THE CHOPPA!!

agnes!

 

[Jennasis]

Jennasis -

This is OT, but I just wanted to say that I LOVE those pics in your signature. "GET TO THE CHOPPA!!

agnes!

I crack myself up too.

 

[C.Ann]

My first thought would have been, "Good grief! She doesn't have the brains that God gave a peach pit!!"

Some people.. Grrrrr...

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I hope your DH feels better. I had rotator cuff surgery a long time ago and it is quite a painful recovery.

And rude people suck. Hope the venting helps. It always helps me. Once I get it out, I move right on.

 

[IDoDis]

What an incredibly rude person. I hope your DH has a speedy recovery.

Last year about a week before Christmas I was driving on a local street when I noticed a woman was tailgating me. Had I been going too slow I would have sped up, but I was already driving 8 miles over the speed limit so I wasn't going to let her push me to go faster and risk getting a ticket.

She pulled out into the lane next to me and caught up to me, rolled down her window and yelled some choice words are me that I couldn't hear because my window was up. Then she got in front of me in my lane and started driving REALLY slow -- like 20mph in a 35pmh zone. WTH?

When I was behind her I noticed she had a sticker on her car that said, "Remember the reason for the season." After the light turned green, I pulled out next to her and she yelled at me again. I said, "Merry Christmas to you, too!" She kind of had a nasty look on her face like it was stuck that way permanently.

 

[CathrynRose]

I probably would have said something to her. Esp. since the lot was empty and there was no reason for it.

Me too. I very rarely will put a cork in it. And I might have stood there awhile, too.

 

[DarthKTrava]

I took Dh to the doctor this morning for his post-surgical follow-up. He had shoulder surgery on Wednesday. After leaving the dr I was helping him into the car. He has his right arm in a sling and covered with this ice-pack vest. He's also super doped up on pain meds. So I'm buckling him in and getting his feet all adjusted when another car comes whipping into the parking spot next to us (on the passenger side). Yes this is the empty spot I am standing in while getting DH in the car. The lady driving sees me and continues INCHING forward until I could actually feel the heat from her front bumper....her intent clear.

MOVE.

I glance up at her and hold up a finger as in "just a sec" with a polite and apologetic smile. A second or two later, I finish and reach for the passenger door to close it (Dh cannot close it...no right arm remember?) and I literally just get my hand on the door frame and this loon starts inching into the space again!

Her bumper now inches from my knees!

I give her a "WTH" look, shut the door and go to walk around the front of my car, as I'm walking out of the spot, she's already gunning the car the rest of the way to pull in.

Dh starts muttering some not-so-DIS-approved words about this idgit as I get in the car. I figure she must be in a life-or-death hurry to get to the ORTHOPEDIST....but no, she lingers in her car for a bit, rummagin through her purse. Then she gets out and strolls to the office door. I am in disbelief but pull out of my spot to drive away. The kicker? Her license plate:

LUVSJESUS

Those kinds of people burn me up. I had one woman glare at us as she was leaving church and we were in her way. In the street. I had to drive to the middle of the street to get around Mom's car.



And plenty of the same "class" of rude people during lunchtime on Sundays....

What gives?

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Not everyone with some kind of religious paraphenalia on their car is rude. I do have two Jesus Fish (one on either side of the car logo) and do try to be a courteous driver whenever possible. Don't judge one person on the actions of others.

That being said, that woman was incredibly rude. Sorry you had to go through that Jennasis.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I crack myself up too.

as long as you don't hit the car in the parking spot!!

hehehehhee

 

[LaurenLC]

What's really a shame is that this doesn't surprise me... I hope your husband is feeling better.

 

[EclecticWAHM]

Last year about a week before Christmas I was driving on a local street when I noticed a woman was tailgating me. Had I been going too slow I would have sped up, but I was already driving 8 miles over the speed limit so I wasn't going to let her push me to go faster and risk getting a ticket.

She pulled out into the lane next to me and caught up to me, rolled down her window and yelled some choice words are me that I couldn't hear because my window was up. Then she got in front of me in my lane and started driving REALLY slow -- like 20mph in a 35pmh zone. WTH?

When I was behind her I noticed she had a sticker on her car that said, "Remember the reason for the season." After the light turned green, I pulled out next to her and she yelled at me again. I said, "Merry Christmas to you, too!" She kind of had a nasty look on her face like it was stuck that way permanently.

People like that just amaze me. Sure, it's irritating, but I can't help but to think about how miserable and pathetic their sorry lives must be if they have to behave in that way. Seriously - their lives must absolutely suck and that just makes me feel sorry for them.

I SERIOUSLY hate tailgating though. That makes me hopping mad. People who tailgate are just an accident waiting to happen and believe me, it SUCKS to be the one who gets hurt because some other person is a complete moron. My husband was out of work for six months because some idiot was tailgating him in rush hour traffic on his way home from work. SIX FREAKING MONTHS because this pinhead doesn't know how to drive safely. People who tailgate need to get the heck off my streets, really.

 

[bunkkinsmom]

Maybe she really wasnt Christian.

Maybe her significant other is named Jesus...

Simple case of mistaken identity.

THAT'S AWESOME!!!

I remember on the old Dennis Miller show on HBO when he was talking about Manuel Noriega being in a Dade County jail. Evidently Noriega said that he found Jesus there. Miller says, "Come on Manny, every other guy in there is named Jesus"