So I'm taking my children to school; first Tyler to the middle school and then the girls to the elementary across town (it's just worth the drive for a better school than the one I live right next to).
Right off the bat I begin having an issue with drivers. I approach an intersection, I'm moving forward through the intersection watching the woman facing in my direction stopped with her left turn signal on, now remember, I'm moving forward, she begins to turn and gets angry with me for not stopping because she wanted to turn! Whatever...she'll get over the fact that lefthand turns have to wait for traffic moving forward.
Closing in on the middle school I pull into the parking lot--well, the first car length of the parking lot at the middle school because the SUV in front of me had to STOP right there were cars are pulling in and out to let a child out of the vehicle...holding up several cars behind me on the road...but, you know, whatever, they're more important than anyone else, right? Then the SUV drives into the parking lot and around to the front of the school--as the rest of us normally do, and then pulls into a parking slot to allow other children out at the front door...WHAT?!! I mean, why did that one child need to get out of the car, weave through the MOVING traffic to get to the back door when he could have gotten out with the others at the front door and had the same length--but SAFER--walk. Anyway, I'm sitting there waiting to turn into a stall, myself, just waiting for the line of cars to my left to get past me so I can pull in and let my son out...it looks somewhat like leaving the county fair or some other crowded event...slow, long lines. I see a space where I can park--one of MANY--all I need to do is move up a bit to get past the car at my side and turn, but the white SUV about five car-lengths ahead of me (going the opposite direction on my left) just hurries her little buns up to the car on my side closing up the space... WHY? it's wasn't like she was going anywhere...everyone was stopped, it wasn't like I was going to take her spot in line...I was trying to pass THROUGH it to park...AND I even had my Magical and Mystical blinker on...annoying! After I wait for three more imperceptively moving cars to pass, I park, my son gets out of the car, and now I want to back out of the spot I had to wait for but I can't because there's now a minivan PARKED behind me...I mean, really folks, there's like TEN open spots to my left and 20 to my right, choose one and pull in--this one was going the opposite direction than I was so s/he didn't even have to wait to turn through the line. AND, you know what, the line was thinning so much at this point, there really wasn't much of a line anymore, just like five cars. I'm sitting there waiting for the minivan to move so that I can back MY awesome little Honda Odyssey out and this little sporting car tries to muscle me back into my spot by pulling up...AGAIN, there's 30 some OPEN parking spots, PULL INTO ONE for crying out loud! OK, so I'm finally out of the parking spot and into the northbound "line" of cars--you know, moving the opposite direction from whence I came to begin with, we're moving pretty steadily at about 5 miles per hour along the legth of the school getting ready to turn right and go along the north side of the school so we can get out when this BRILLIANT woman just coming INTO the parking lot decides she isn't going to deal with all of that, dumps her child out so that HE can weave through the moving vehicles, and then she does a U-turn right there and pulls in front of the small black car ahead of me--no blinker, no wave of the hand, no thank you--nothing! Ugh...good morning to you, too!
So I got out of that mess and we're off taking the girls to school and all is well. We're just driving and singing to Rascal Flatts having a pleasant morning. (Yeah, I know...a pleasant morning?! with MY group?! it does happen sometimes) We pull up to the school and it's the same thing as before...pull into the parking lot, stay to the perimeter, drive in a counter-clock direction, stop in front of the school to let your child out of your car on the side closest to the school, and leave; you can also pull into the lot driving to the left of the other cars in order to park. So, there I am with my girls in the minivan, we're slowly progressing forward when a mother in another car thinks, "Hey, I'm too SPECIAL to have to wait, and my child is carproof, so I'm just gonna pull up in this space here and let my little girl out to walk through the cars," and she does just that all the while blowing kisses and announcing her love for her baby...you know, the little bitty princess squeazing between two MOVING vehicles who have to slam on their brakes.
What is WRONG with these people?!!
Right off the bat I begin having an issue with drivers. I approach an intersection, I'm moving forward through the intersection watching the woman facing in my direction stopped with her left turn signal on, now remember, I'm moving forward, she begins to turn and gets angry with me for not stopping because she wanted to turn! Whatever...she'll get over the fact that lefthand turns have to wait for traffic moving forward.
Closing in on the middle school I pull into the parking lot--well, the first car length of the parking lot at the middle school because the SUV in front of me had to STOP right there were cars are pulling in and out to let a child out of the vehicle...holding up several cars behind me on the road...but, you know, whatever, they're more important than anyone else, right? Then the SUV drives into the parking lot and around to the front of the school--as the rest of us normally do, and then pulls into a parking slot to allow other children out at the front door...WHAT?!! I mean, why did that one child need to get out of the car, weave through the MOVING traffic to get to the back door when he could have gotten out with the others at the front door and had the same length--but SAFER--walk. Anyway, I'm sitting there waiting to turn into a stall, myself, just waiting for the line of cars to my left to get past me so I can pull in and let my son out...it looks somewhat like leaving the county fair or some other crowded event...slow, long lines. I see a space where I can park--one of MANY--all I need to do is move up a bit to get past the car at my side and turn, but the white SUV about five car-lengths ahead of me (going the opposite direction on my left) just hurries her little buns up to the car on my side closing up the space... WHY? it's wasn't like she was going anywhere...everyone was stopped, it wasn't like I was going to take her spot in line...I was trying to pass THROUGH it to park...AND I even had my Magical and Mystical blinker on...annoying! After I wait for three more imperceptively moving cars to pass, I park, my son gets out of the car, and now I want to back out of the spot I had to wait for but I can't because there's now a minivan PARKED behind me...I mean, really folks, there's like TEN open spots to my left and 20 to my right, choose one and pull in--this one was going the opposite direction than I was so s/he didn't even have to wait to turn through the line. AND, you know what, the line was thinning so much at this point, there really wasn't much of a line anymore, just like five cars. I'm sitting there waiting for the minivan to move so that I can back MY awesome little Honda Odyssey out and this little sporting car tries to muscle me back into my spot by pulling up...AGAIN, there's 30 some OPEN parking spots, PULL INTO ONE for crying out loud! OK, so I'm finally out of the parking spot and into the northbound "line" of cars--you know, moving the opposite direction from whence I came to begin with, we're moving pretty steadily at about 5 miles per hour along the legth of the school getting ready to turn right and go along the north side of the school so we can get out when this BRILLIANT woman just coming INTO the parking lot decides she isn't going to deal with all of that, dumps her child out so that HE can weave through the moving vehicles, and then she does a U-turn right there and pulls in front of the small black car ahead of me--no blinker, no wave of the hand, no thank you--nothing! Ugh...good morning to you, too!
So I got out of that mess and we're off taking the girls to school and all is well. We're just driving and singing to Rascal Flatts having a pleasant morning. (Yeah, I know...a pleasant morning?! with MY group?! it does happen sometimes) We pull up to the school and it's the same thing as before...pull into the parking lot, stay to the perimeter, drive in a counter-clock direction, stop in front of the school to let your child out of your car on the side closest to the school, and leave; you can also pull into the lot driving to the left of the other cars in order to park. So, there I am with my girls in the minivan, we're slowly progressing forward when a mother in another car thinks, "Hey, I'm too SPECIAL to have to wait, and my child is carproof, so I'm just gonna pull up in this space here and let my little girl out to walk through the cars," and she does just that all the while blowing kisses and announcing her love for her baby...you know, the little bitty princess squeazing between two MOVING vehicles who have to slam on their brakes.
What is WRONG with these people?!!
posted by Regina | 7:51 AM
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