I had just been on an errand run with my daughters.
We started off in our fair, little cities north end and then wound our way down
to the south end to hit some of the bigger stores we needed. Our adventures in
the north end was seemingly calm and the people we encountered were the normal
of polite, kind, respectable and decent. It all went downhill from there.
We left the north end and travelled through the city
to the newer shopping area that is under construction. My husband had wanted a
gift from the new sporting store and I was willing to oblige him and I was
curious about the new store as well. We arrived and found parking and parked as
far away as I possibly could, I like to walk. As we headed towards the store a
number of drivers were adjusting their vehicles in the parking spots and of
course did not see myself and the girls. Twice in a matter of seconds we were
almost struck by a driver with a vehicle. I was alert enough to stop and stop
the girls as these individuals insisted on maneuvering before they would let us
pass. The epitome of selfish and inconsiderate.
We walked the rest of the lot and managed to make it
to the front door unscathed, physically at least only to have the gentleman
(very loosely used) in front of us whip the door open and step through without
realizing anyone was behind him. The door proceeded to close in my face as the
man stood blocking the entry as he decided which direction he was going to go
in the store. No offense dude, but, how rude!!! Not only that sir but you were
in need of some personal freshening!!!
We managed to escape with our treasure for my
husband and get back to our vehicle without incident. I thought we were on the
mend. Oh boy!!! Was I wrong…it had only just begun!!!
I pulled our vehicle out of the parking spot and
headed for the exit that I could see and hoped it was the right one that would
lead me to our next destination without too much fuss. There was a lot of
construction and driving through some places was tricky for large vehicles and
operators. I managed fine until I came up against a man in a Ford F150. As
most of us know this is a massive truck. I pulled over as far as I could to let
him by but he insisted that I go first. My initial thought was a retuning of my
faith in human kind and respect. No… not at all…!!! I proceeded to go through
the space that would only allow a single vehicle through at a time and as I
passed he cursed a series of foul verbal words at me that included a horrendous
burp that spewed spittle and food at me!!! Thanks a lot, I am not sure what I
did to deserve that but it was my impression that you were letting me go first
(dripping with syrup sarcasm of course). Utterly disgusting.
My girls sat quietly in the back as they absorbed
this behaviour that was unacceptable at the very least. I am appalled at this
man who would do this to a woman and her daughters over a moment in a parking
lot. You sir, whoever you are have had a despicable moment and that is the
moment I will always remember about you.
So from there we moved on through the lot and out
onto the street. The light in front of us had turned green and I approached the
intersection to turn right. The traffic had stopped and backed up into the
intersection blocking the turning lanes and blocking the two lanes to travel
through the light. I needed to get over to the far left lane so I could turn
left at the next intersection only a few yards up the road. I could not pull
forward as the light changed as I would be blocking the intersection and
breaking the law. So I stayed where I was until the light up the road changed
and the traffic in front of me moved. I then proceeded to move about six feet
into the traffic and was stopped by the jam yet again. A man in a green Honda
Accord pulled up to the passenger side of my vehicle stopped close to where my
six year old was sitting and proceeded to inform me in the most unflattering
terms that I needed to learn how to drive. He then came on with a barge of
anger that was fit for no one and called me as many names as he could come up
with. All the while he was blocking traffic behind him. I rolled down my
child’s window so he could see who he was telling off. He drove away quickly
when he saw her little face and the fear he had created in her eyes. Sir you
are despicable and I am afraid that this might be behaviour you atone yourself
to much too often.
Well that incident behind us the driver behind him
decided that flipping me the bird was good and that somehow I was responsible
for the traffic jam in the lovely south end of our fair city. I am yet to
figure how, but it all must have been my fault as…well of course not and the
poor behaviour is not my fault either.
So after that we get to our shopping destination and
proceed into a packed store with people blocking isles and I only needed four
items. We get our four little items and proceed to a jammed checkout with no
express lanes. We wait our turn, check through, pay and move to a quiet
location to pack our goods. We had just managed to finish and were preparing
our buggy and selves to leave when a women in a bright blue tank top with brown
hair and a pony tail smashed her buggy into mine and drove my buggy into my
right leg and foot. The wheel rode up my foot and the bottom basket drove into
my ankle. I bruised almost immediately. She began to walk away after she had taken
a brief look at me. I was in a moment of shock and could not say anything from
the instant pain she had just delivered to my foot and ankle. I shouted out
OUCH!!!!!!!! And she then stopped and without any remorse of feeling said and I
quote “I did not mean to run into you”. And she walked away. She knew she had
done this to me and had no intention of apologizing at all what so ever.
Lady you are despicable and I believe that people like you need some lessons in
life about what it is like to be on the other side of being you. People like
you have no clue that other people in this world have feelings, be that either
physical or emotional and your self-deserving style of living is despicable. I
am not normally one to pass judgment on someone I do not know, or know for that
matter, someone I do know but in today’s cases I feel that I sit in a good place
to be jury and judge as I was cursed at, told off, emotionally abused,
physically injured and totally run over. Now please realize I did not sit
ideally by and allow this behaviour to go unnoticed by myself. I had several
things to say to each of these individuals and tried to do so with some dignity
and sarcasm. I am sure it did not go unnoticed for the most part.
All-in-all I cannot understand how impatient we have
become and how injuring another human being has become acceptable. Do we not
realize that words hurt too? I suppose some of us have not been given the sense
that would have been called common not so many years ago and as we over
populate this planet and crowd more and more people into an ever shrinking space I wonder what the future holds if today
was so despicable???
