Today Is NOT My Day

I got off work at 7am this morning and decided to run into the grocery store for a couple of things. So I do my shopping. I had my handy-dandy coupons. She scanned them and missed one. I didn’t feel like arguing. I am tired. I want to go home. I have to be back at work at 7pm tonight.

I head out to the parking lot. I walk carefully with my cart behind the parked cars and not in the middle of the aisle. I’m trying to be a good pedestrian. It’s probably 7:30 at this point. Some woman comes flying through the parking lot and cutting across the parking spaces and decided she wants to come down where I’m walking. I am still off to the side to stay safe. So she goes past me and I need to cross to the other side where my car is parked. She had stopped and suddenly throws her car in reverse as I am walking behind it. I jumped and yelled a few curse words. So she decided to pull forward and park in another spot and not run me over after all. She gets out and yells, “Sorry to have scared you!’ as she runs into the store. I was speechless. After a full minute, speech came back. I wanted to run into that store and find her and tell her I wasn’t sorry I was shaking the snot out of her.

I then just get in the car and go to the light to turn left. I turn onto the main road and have to take an immediate left so I get into the turning lane. Well a car coming from the opposite direction decides he wants in the turning lane, too. He starts merging into the lane a little to close for my comfort and almost takes my bumper off. Again, more curse words. This time hand gestures were involved.

When I finally made it into my parking spot I just sat there for a moment trying to see if I had really made it home alive or not. I had to write this out because it’s just so crazy. I am heading to bed now because I have to be back at work in 10 hrs.

Have People Lost Their Minds?

There are days when things happen and I just wonder have people lost their minds? Why do they do the things they do? I suppose you’re wondering what kinds of things I’m referring to. I was driving this morning and a car just decided to get in my lane. They didn’t look. They didn’t signal. They just got over. Now I happened to be in the spot they wanted to be in. So I had to slam my brakes, honk the horn, and then some choice words were yelled and a hand gesture was made. What were they thinking?! I mean it’s not like a car is some invisible object. I’m not Wonder Woman in my invisible jet. I was in a Taurus for goodness sake!

Another driving incident occurred recently in Biltmore Village the other day. I had the light and was driving slowly because it is the Village and all of a sudden a pedestrian just decides to walk across the road. First of all they were not in a designated cross walk. Second why would you just walk in front of a moving object that could kill you? I just wanted to stop the car in the road and ask them if they had lost their mind or taken a momentary leave of absence from it or what. Just because you are a pedestrian does not mean you can just walk whenever and wherever you please. There are rules. And no, I am not going to run over you because there is all this legal paperwork I would have to fill out, but for the love of God use your brain!

Another pedestrian issue is in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Why is it that people seem to think it is ok to walk as slowly as they can diagonally across the parking lost when there are cars waiting for them to move? Can’t they walk behind the vehicles? Or would that be too bothersome? I don’t get the whole holding up traffic thing. Again, I try to avoid mowing down the pedestrians but they don’t make it easy. It’s like they are playing chicken with the cars or something. I guess they know you won’t hit them. But what if there was this crazy person who one day just got tired of it?  Or what if there was someone whose brakes went out? Or what if there was someone whose foot slipped? Quit tempting fate, people! Find your mind and put it back in your head where it belongs!

The other day I was speaking to someone on the phone and was trying to explain something and we kept saying the same thing over and over. I finally had to tell them to shut up and listen to me so they could actually hear what I was saying. I told them if they kept talking over me they would never understand what I was saying. Was this such a hard concept to grasp? I don’t think so. Do they think saying the same thing over and over is accomplishing anything? I don’t. Have they lost their minds? Quite possibly.

I know we all do some things where people wonder about our sanity from time to time. But if it happens on a daily basis we need to rethink what we are doing. I have come to the realization that some of these things happen just so I will laugh. I don’t have enough laughter in my life. But some of these things are so irritating that I can’t laugh. Thankfully most of these are while I am driving and I can say bad words and make hand gestures and move on.