mike_s:
Yep... it was so...
After he 'stole' the parking place from that poor elderly couple
WHOA! hold it right there. There I was, pulling down the road, looking for a spot. I saw some people with thier feet hanging from thier car, finishing getting dressed to leave.
While I waited for them to pull out, I saw a woman and some kids on the other side of the road, waiting as if they were planning to cross. I waved them over. The woman waved me on. This goes on for a moment and finally I decided that they must be waiting to be picked up. As the car pulled out of it's spot, I pulled in. At that point a man in a PT Cruiser pulled up, and the woman starts screaming at me. Yelling something about saving that spot. I argued that standing on the side of the street, that the parking space was on, just might have been more effective. I tell the guy that he can have the spot. That I didn't know that was what she was doing. Of course, the whole time I had been waving at her to go ahead and cross the street, she could have mentioned that she was holding the spot. The guy just drives off.
I get out of the truck, and as the guy drives back up, I walk over, to tell him to take the spot. I am not unreasonable, they obviously were there before me. There are always more parking spots. But no, he drives on by, surely dreading the unending henpicking his large heavily accented nag of a wife would soon bestow upon him.
This is the point that SeaYoda drives up, and of course the story had to be told.
Eventually we make it to the water, dive, and because MDB had just the one steel 72 tank, we returned before everyone else. Only to find two new scratches on my door.
I was tempted to go to the beach and talk to the guy, or do some repair work of my own on his car......
but I merely cursed and sputtered. oh well