In the Sunday Edition of the Seattle Times, they have a feature called Rants and Raves.
I love it.
I have been reading this column off and on for the past 14 years.
Whenever I am in Seattle or when I check out the paper on line, this is the first section I go to.
Seattle residents might talk about the woman they saw, who didn’t put her child in a car seat or the young pre teen boy who held the door open for an elderly woman.
I have my own Rant and Rave for today.
Rave goes to the sweet woman in the craft store who gave me her extra coupon. Thanks again. I was standing in line at the store when I had a “V-8″ moment remembering that I didn’t check the Sunday paper for the ad. This kind woman saved me 40% off my entire order.
Rant to the woman in the Costco parking lot.
No, I didn’t want your parking place.
It was not necessary to cuss me out from your car and the additional hand motions were not necessary either.
I am guessing you are either Type – A personality or Italian….or both. (I’m Italian, don’t send letters.)
As you later realized, I was waiting for the dear, white haired couple to move out of the way before I passed….I have a rule about not hitting pedestrians.
Especially since the elderly gentleman was wearing a baseball cap with a WW II veteran insignia.
We don’t have many of them left.
Gosh, what would you have done if I had gotten out of my car to thank him and shake his now, feeble hand on this Memorial Day weekend?
I drove by your precious parking place.
I wouldn’t have dreamed of taking your spot; besides, I got one.
Two spaces from the door.
This is great! And funny, too. People are so impatient. The worst comes out when people look for parking spots and see they might lose the one they staked out.
I couldnt agree more….Only yesterday I turned into a quiet road and saw ahead a learner doing the ‘turn in the road’ move (can’t spell the man-uver word lol) anyway….being polite and remembering how awful it is learning these things I stopped a good distance away as to not make the poor person feel under pressure….cue another car to turn into the road and sail past me…she then saw why I was indeed just stopped kinda in the middle of the road and reversed back and behind me !! Best thing was it was someone I knew…she used to teach at my kids school…..
Oh yes people are impatient and downright rude at times !
HUGS