Aggression
I had a busy day working at a fair yesterday. Of course I spent a lot of money, as usual, but I talked to a lot of people and enjoyed myself. My daughter came to meet me there towards the end of the day and then we headed off.
We decided to go to Rogers to see what movies they had for rent. As I drove into the parking lot, I saw a parking space right down by Rogers. After the good day I had, I was feeling lucky that there was a close spot.
As I headed down towards the spot, a Mercedes came around the corner the other way. I was almost there and this other car was sitting there. At that time, I just thought it was a car who’d pulled around the corner.
I pulled up and into the parking spot. As I pulled in the guy started saying something to me, like “you’re not seriously taking that spot. you didn’t see me going in there?” I said, “I was going into this parking spot”. He had a few more words, more hostile words, and I asked, “would you like me to pull out of here?” He had some other choice words and then said, “You’d better not leave your car alone” and I said the same thing back to him.
There was another spot across from me and he pulled in. At that point I went over and took down his license plate number. I figured since he’d threated to damage my car, I’d have some information to give to the police.
While I was standing writing down his plate, another SUV came pulling into the spot beside him – very slowly because apparently I was in the way of him getting in. He said, “are you kidding me?” and I looked around to see this guy pulling in. He said something about me being in the way and I said, “well I can move over” and I moved over, finished writing down the plate.
That guy said something else, don’t remember what but I turned to my daughter and said, “everyone’s got fucking attitude today”. At that time, the passenger door opened and this blonde woman jumped out and said, “WHAT DID YOU SAY!”. To which I responded, “I said that everyone’s got fucking attitude today”. She almost ran over to me to put her face in my face and say, “I’ve got a kid in the car, YOU WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE”. I said nothing and started to walk away. She kept going on about it and my daughter told her to shut up. I had been thinking that she was going to hit me, she was so aggressive and in my face, and I was worried that she was going to hit me in the face and break my sunglasses into my eyes.
It was an unbelievable day. I started thinking about karma. I thought about the good day I’d had, and the friends I’d made, and then wondered about how this crap in the parking lot had happened.
If I had been in a crappy mood instead of a happy one, I might have gotten aggressive back when faced with this stuff, but instead I was just shocked. As my daughter started talking about moving out of Toronto, I started wondering if that was a good thing to do.
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