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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

You're right. I'm wrong

posted by drouse at 11h39

Yes, see. I admit it. To the world.  I'm wrong.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.

But it was the first day of school. And I had a huge bag of stuff to carry in for my daughter - Did you see how big the bag was? It easily weighed 80 pounds. And she was carrying a miniature rose plant to give to her teacher, so she couldn't carry the stuff. 

You may not have noticed that I circled the block a couple of times to try to find a better spot...but in the end, the only place available was that half a parking spot on the edge of someones driveway.  Now, we won't talk about the fact that if the person driving the F150 had parked with a bit more consideration, I would have easily fit into that spot.

But in my defense...I did look to see if the people had room to get out  or in ( they did - it's a double driveway) and I looked to see if it seemed as if anyone was there ( they had already left) before I parked.

I even said to my daughter "This isn't really a space, so I have to just run your stuff up to your room and then head off to work...."

And that is exactly what I did. Ran up into her room, dropped off her stuff, walked her down to the playground and checked her in with her teacher ...and walked back. Where you were waiting for me.

No - you weren't the homeowner. Or the neighbor. Clearly not a Mom of one of the kids at school. But you were ready to tell me how awful and discourteous and a blight on humanity I was for parking in half a space. 

Which I started to apologize for - and said "I'm leaving"....but no. Apparently, that was not sufficient. Upon seeing the Saftey officer ( and lets just say I use that term loosley as I have never once seen this particular man get out of his vehicle to manage the morning traffic issues at the school in the past two years ) you waved him over to chide me. Which he started to do...from his drivers seat.

Until you decided to start telling HIM hat a rotten job he was doing at monitering the parental driving patterns and how he really needed to be watching better as parents are backing up and driving crazy around the school.

Which is also true.I have seen it myself. I have been a victim of the parent ( and lets just say she and I know who each other is...) who decides to park in the middle of a two way street and walk her children to school, thereby stopping two lanes of traffic and completely log jamming the street.  Geesh, where were you then to preach your holier than thou parking credo?

As I got in my car and pulled away, you were still yelling at the Safety officer. Who then pulled into the non-parking spot that I vacated.

And you reminded me why I need to be a bit more gentle with people.