Wrong Way, Moron!
The other morning, I drove into the parking garage like every other morning. We share it with the hotel next door, some nearby office buildings and the general public. This means that sometimes it’s fuller than others and sometimes there’s a moron or two wandering around. That morning, there was a fully licensed one.
I wasn’t even to the top of the first ramp and there was a car that wanted to back out. I thought to myself about what a lucky break that was. I should have realized that it never is lucky.
As I watched, he proceeded to back out up the ramp the wrong way on a one way ramp. Then as he and his car was facing me and the line of cars behind me, he proceeded to begin waving his arms at me and mouthing things at me in an animated way.
I blinked.
Then he proceeded to manuever his car so that he could pull between me and the parked cars in the one-way lane, took the time to pause so he could animatedly mouth things at me as he passed me and as I watched, he slowly did the same to all of the other cars on his way down and proceeded to pull into the entrance ramp.
I have no idea what happened next as I pulled into my first level parking spot and immediately forgot the whole thing until a few minutes ago when I saw some idiot trying to enter the exit ramp from our office window.
Don’t people read or pay attention?
What killed me is that he was angry at me for being in his way when he was going the wrong way in the first place and it obviously never occurred to him that the big line of cars and the narrow lane might mean something. Or even those “Wrong Way” signs above…
And that’s how most people are going through life these days. They don’t read the signs or see the signs and then they wonder who they get into the messes they do and for the most part, they’re pushing their way through life angrily shoving people out of their way, trying to force their way in whatever direction they think they should be going. Who cares about the rest of the world or the neighbors or the guy standing next to them? It’s all about individuals and self-satisfaction and my way is the only way or no way…
And I guess that’s what pisses me off so much when people can’t seem to figure out that it’s inconsiderate to walk in through the exit at Wal-mart and block all of those people trying to push their baskets out. They aren’t thinking about anyone but themselves and their shopping and their smilie-face savings and then they’re going to be just as frustrated when someone else is sauntering in an hour later through the exit door dragging their two year old and yelling at their teenager to pull her pants up because they can’t get their three baskets of groceries out to their car either.
tags: soap box, pet peeves
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on June 9, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Tamara said:
Yeah, people are oblivious. I love it when they get mad at me for honking when they do something wrong and potentially dangerous. I usually smile and wave at that point, although who knows, maybe that will just drive them over the edge.
Have a good weekend!
on June 9, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Dani said:
I read a survey on cell phone users. Around 80% of them thought others used their cells in annoying ways in public–but less than half of them thought they, themselves, were annoying cell phone users.
We are so unimaginably self-centered these days! We’re not allowed to treat people the way we want to be treated anymore–it might be associated with the Bible or God or some other ‘no-no’ word!
America was a lot nicer before we started trying so hard not to offend anyone!
on June 12, 2006 at 6:02 am
ole blue said:
People do not see anything unless the wish to see it, I don’t know what it is but It seems some people have drank a few too many cups of the ego Kool-Aide