Mine! Mine! Mine!

Ever have a fit of parking lot lunacy? Well I'm here to tell you that you just feel better standing up for yourself when something like this happens:

The kids are off school one day and we decide it would be fun to meet daddy for lunch at Souplantation. Apparently everybody thought Souplant was the best choice that day because there were simply no parking spots to be found. Usually we have a great amount of parking-karma and find a spot quickly no matter where we are. This day, however, I think our karma went the way of the bars on my cell phone... going, going, gone. We (me and the kids) literally drove through the stupid lot for over 10 MINUTES! My eyes were practically rolling into the back of my head at this point.

Ahhh! Finally, someones leaving and I'm the car in line to take it. Blinker on. Waiting. Cars passing me while I wait. Okay, car is backing out finally. Another car passes me... HEY! That a#%hole just pulled into my spot! Throw the econoliner into park, emergency brake on, "You kids keep your belts on!" I'm outta the car and banging on the a#%hole's window before he can even get his car turned off. He rolls down his window with a look of surprise on his fat little face and I lay into him, "I have been waiting patiently with my blinker ON for this spot and if you think you can just zip around me and take it you've got another thing coming buddy because I've got three hungry kids in my car and we've driving around this lot for ten minutes. You are rude and inconsiderate and you'd better move this car right now!" Man in car is catching flies in his mouth the whole time I'm in rambling-mode. So I finally shut up and he comes back with this ever-so-witty remark, "All you had to do was ask nicely." He's lucky I'd already started walking away because I would've gone into my "ask for what nicely?" rant at that point.

He moved his stupid little car and I got my spot. HA! Oh yeah, he didn't eat at Souplant that day.