Nastygrams in the parking lot

[Mina]

Have nastygrams become the newest way for us to vent our bad moods? Okay, I realize they're not new, but every time I run into one I'm just like, whaaa?

So today I arrived at work late, due to an unfortunate fall down the exterior (concrete) stairs at my complex and the subsequent time needed to clean up and tend to my injuries. I was opening my car door when a woman decided to pull into the space next to me. I figured, fine, I'll wait. And wait, while she tried multiple times to park a Land Cruiser in a space more suited for a Mini. (I'm not SUV-hating, but this was such the epitome of SUV-princess behavior that I can't help but mention it). Finally she seemed settled, so I opened my door a bit and squeezed my pint-sized body out. Unfortunately, while I could get out, I couldn't turn around without rubbing my butt and my lunch bag against the Land Cruiser. As I rubbed road dirt off my pants (I guess it just wasn't meant to me to make it through the day with unsoiled clothes), my purse hit the Land Cruiser. Neither my butt, bag, nor purse hit the vehicle hard enough to do any damage, and I was miffed at the increased delay to an already late start, so I didn't bother waiting for the woman to get out so I could apologize.

Worked 12 hours, dragged myself back to my car, and under the glow of the street lamp found this lovely nastygram on my windshield:

Your license plate number has been recorded because of your intentional malicious damage to my vehicle, and your action has been reported.

I took the note to our security people to see if any such thing had actually been reported, and they had a good laugh over it, but sheesh. I'm going to add that note to my scrapbook to remind me of the wonderful civilized people I work with. But it still doesn't compare to the morning I was coming off a night shift and was making a phone call before I pulled out. An older woman pulled up next to me, walked around to her passenger-side door, and opened it. It hit my car. She glared at me, pushed the door shut a little, and then pulled it open, harder, hitting my car again. And then a third time. Talk about a bad mood! I took her plate number (minus the nastygram) but never got around to reporting it because the dents she left blended in with the zillion dents I already had from no-parking and ill-tempered people.

And let's not even talk about the guy who threatened to report me because I pulled into the space he was going to take. (He was behind me, it was the last open space for at least a dozen rows, what can I say?)

The employee parking lot is the schoolyard playground of the adult bully. Welcome to the Real World.

[flyogagrl]

OMG! I can totally relate!
A new company moved into our building and went around and marked all of their "allocated" parking spots. I work in a pretty big commercial park and everyone is pretty cool about parking and they understand that people want to park close to their office, even if it is not necessairly the "company parking spaces allocated to your office", that was UNTIL this new tenant came in.

People from our office still park in "their allocated" spots. We get nasty grams all the time! Threatening to tow us, calling us names, telling us that they will report us to the building management co.... we all laugh because 1. we were here first and 2. we aren't doing anything illegal and its not their property, it is owned by someone else and 3. i don't really know why they would want to park in those spots, they are such a freaking walk to their enterance!

[midtwenty]

Damn Mina, what a complete bitch! See, I'm the kind of person who would forever be on the lookout for that woman and her SUV. Let's see her try to get home with four deflated tires.

This reminds me of the time the company princess bashed the shit out of my car with her door in the parking lot. I was sitting in my car reading a magazine on my lunch break, and she pulled into the spot next to me. When she opened her door, she FLUNG it and it whammed my car and bounced off. She then proceeds to frantically scan my window trying to discern if I was in the car or not (I was, obviously, but my tint is so dark you can't see anything and I had my sun shade in the windshield) and deciding the coast was clear, she then restarted her car, backed out and moved two spaces down to repark. Then she went inside. Oh, and during this whole scene, she's on her cell phone. GRRRRRRR!

I was SEETHING over this, naturally. Luckily for her my car was not damaged, but it was really shitty for her to move her car like that and try to cover up the whole thing the way she did (this woman is the daughter of the owners and makes more money than anyone except her CEO father). I waited all day for her to do the right thing and tell me what happened, but at 5:00 I still hadn't even seen her around. So I went to her office and called her out. She tried to play it off, but I told her how shitty it was and that she should be ashamed of herself.

Wow this was longer than I meant it to be.

[winneythepooh7]

Well our agency pays a parking garage to park our cars for us since there is NO parking in the neighborhood however I have a story about this nasty woman I've run into at the Dunkin Donuts I go to before work. So, it has a one way to go out of the parking lot. Dumb bitch, she always comes in the one way while I am trying to go out in her big old SUV then proceeds to beep and curse at me, as if I am doing something wrong. Yesterday stupid bitch, who I must add, really doesn't need to be at D&D eating tons of sugar and carbs, but on a treadmill, sorry couldn't resist, comes in the parking lot the right way.........BUT..........there is a free space next to mine and I guess she feels that she can't fit there or whatever in big SUV (I need to mention that there is totally OPEN space on the left side of where she will pull in, a truck with a rig could fit in that spot) so she proceeds to beep and yell for ME to move. Umm, hello, I can sit in my car, I DON'T have to move just because you cannot drive..........anyways, so when I leave after she finally figures out how to pull in and park her car, she jumps out and STANDS in front of my car and glares at me for a minute, totally blocking me from getting out of the parking lot. Stupid BIOTCH!!! This is how I begin my lovely work days.............

[flyogagrl]

Winney- how freaking rude! I can't stand people who have to get in the closest parking space to something and beep and hold up traffic just 'cuz they can't walk from a farther spot. If I were you, I would get a newspaper and just sit in your car and read it in that spot just to piss her off!

[WeirdBrake]

I'm going to reveal my unapologetic bigotry here. Is there something inherently wrong with people who drive SUVs? It seems like whenever there's an incident with a rude, reckless, road-raging, inconsiderate, etc. driver, it's inevitably an SUV that's being driven.

[Crimson King II]

I don't know. But my next vehicle will be a big, huge, black, Tony Soprano style SUV. And I will be unapologetic when I drive it....and when I triple-park it....

[rolo99]

The soccer moms in mini-vans are WAY more obnoxious than most SUV drivers.

[pisces2473]

True, Rolo.

I got hit by a bike yesterday. I was walking to work, minding my business when some Yale student punk broadsides me w/ his bike. Hi, first of all--no bikes on the sidewalk! Second, the sidewalks around campus are HUGE--plenty of room to avoid hitting people with bikes. WTF?