The Beemer Guy
Yesterday after being out and running about with my daughter, I figured I’d stop for a Tims on my way home. But since ‘my’ Tims is in a gas station, I realized that I should also fill up before I started my work week.
So I pulled around and up to a pump where the pump ahead of me was out of order and I was close to the door to pay and go in for my coffee.
Filled ‘er up, paid and got my coffee and when I came out, a guy in a Beemer was pulling in where the out of order pump was. I waved at him to go back since I had planned on going out that way, but he waved at me to back out. Huh?
So I got in my car and started it and this guy was sitting in front of me. So I got out, went over to his car and said, “you’re going to have to back up, that pump’s out of order”. He said he wasn’t going anywhere that I should back up. I said, “well, I’m not moving”, and he said, “well then, you’re going to be there all day”, to which I said, “so are you”
I got back into my car thinking, WyTF does this guy expect me to have to back out when I purposely pulled in here so I could drive straight out. He thinks that he should be able to make me back out so he can just drive straight in.
So I sat in my car, took out my glasses, got out my book and prepared myself for a wait. But since I had been there first and this guy figured it was his right to inconvenience me but not be inconvenienced himself, I thought, fuck it… I’m in for the long haul.
It didn’t take long. Within five minutes the guy backed up and I pulled out as I had planned. And that’s just how stubborn I am – I would have waited the whole day as a matter of principle. What principle? The principle that he thought he should just get his own way and that I should move. Maybe he started thinking that he was dealing with a woman and that he might as well move. Who knows?
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I would have done the same thing and actually have (although no book
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Of course, that’s probably considered road rage and the do-righters would be all over your ass.