Did she want to brawl in the parking lot?
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Anonymous
I pulled into the parking lot at Panera Bread in Friendship Heights today and stopped to wait for a woman to figure out how to park into this space. Anyone who's been there knows it's a tiny lot. I sometimes suck at tight parallel parking so I can understand that pulling into tight spots can be difficult and she couldn't figure out that she needed to back into it and kept trying to go in head first. So I just waited for her to do her thing. She then pulled forward and it seemed like she might try to back in, but instead she just sat there with her signal on. I waited a minute, while saying "Ugh, what is she doing?" I didn't honk, flash my lights, gesture obscenely, or cuss, just said to my husband, "What is she doing? She's just sitting there" as she was blocking the lot and we were stuck just sitting there for two minutes. Turns out she was waiting for someone sitting in their car to pull out of the lot so she could park in that space. Anyway, I guess she somehow became infuriated when reading my lips (because "What is she doing" is so incredibly offensive  ) because this woman gets out of her car and waits for me to park and get out of my car. LOL. Anyway, my 6'2 husband gets out of the car (I guess she didn't realize while waiting that I wasn't alone) and so she walked away.
I bet she's a high strung DCUMer. Seriously, what on earth is the point of having a confrontation with someone over something so insignificant? |
Anonymous
| Wow this seems like a lot of drama imagined in your head. She didn't even say anything to you! |
Anonymous
| Could it have been that she was infuriated because she could not figure out how to park her car? The spot she was waiting for was probably easier to get into. Her upset probably had nothing at all to do with you. |
Anonymous
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Umm, the way I see it is she probably wanted to lay into you, but seeing your husband she decided against it. She might have initially gotten agravated because she couldn't park and then maybe it added fuel to the fire that she read your mouth and you were "talking shit about her."
I know these kind of people all too well. Just looking for a fight because they are angry, bitter people. |
Anonymous
| lol. We did not imagine that she was waiting for me to get out of my car. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like a nutcase, OP! Being in cars does often seem to bring out the worst in some people! |
Anonymous
| You have no idea what her intentions were but you immediately assumed the worst. That is strange or there is more to the story, like she was waiting fists drawn, until she saw your husband and decided it wasn't worth taking him on. |
Anonymous
| Are you sure she wasn't just watching you pull in to see how you did it and if you could get your car in? |
Anonymous
| Maybe she was going to apologize for the trouble but then was too embarrassed and lost her nerve. |
Anonymous
Of course not. This is DC and there are no normal, unaggressive actions by strangers when it comes to cars and parking lots. 
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Anonymous
| Are you sure that you weren't in her way? I hate the way that people sit a few feet away from my car when I'm trying to get into a tight parking space. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Could you have taken her? |
Anonymous
| Meh. Anyone can have a bad day. I used to live in NYC, so I just brush this kind crap off. |
Anonymous
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My story beats your story!
Yesterday driving with 3 kids in the backseat a car with Florida plates went to move over onto another car. The other car honked. Florida then proceeded to swerve aggressively and chuck full soda cups out the window at the other car. The other car honked and swerved back while pointing and screaming. When traffic stopped at a light, they had a scream fest until traffic moved again. And I was the petrified driver stuck behind them. Fun times! |