This post falls into the “People Are Stupid and Lazy” category. Y’all will recall that I live across the street from a school. You may even recall me complaining about people who pick up their kids and park in my driveway, in the middle of the street, and all sorts of random places.
This afternoon, Theresa went outside to see this:
The gray car on the right is her car. Well, my car that she has temporary custody of. The green car on the left belongs to a parent. Now wouldn’t you say they are parked just a wee bit close to my car?
I was hoping to give the woman a bit of a scare by being out there with my camera. She was unfazed and unapologetic. Another woman who was about to park in my driveway, however, thought better of it and drove further down the block to a real parking spot.
The offender, on the other hand, was belligerent and acted as if her parking skills were perfectly fine & that she did nothing wrong. What was I worried about? A slightly crushed license plate? I couldn’t help remarking that, since it wasn’t raining out and was, in fact, rather nice out, that I didn’t see the necessity in trying to park as close as possible to the school doors instead of finding a legitimate parking spot. I didn’t add the next part – that she certainly looked like she could use the exercise that walking 10 extra feet would give her.
Her rational in parking so close to my car may have been that she thought she was clearing the driveway of my neighbors. If that was the case, then she needs her eyes checked:
It seems to me that she’s hanging into their driveway by a good 2 feet at least. Judging by her crumpled license plate, I’d assume her parking skills could use a bit of work. Meantime, I’m thinking it sure would be fun to post the license plate numbers of people someplace on line, with their pictures.
