On Mon, 16 May 2005 21:54:15 GMT, "DD"
It's intended to be kind of a take-off on "The Mad Hate Book" (if you're old enough to remember that).
You're right, I don't usually confront anybody about their poor parking - unless, of course, they do it in some way that actually harms me, such as double-parking behind my car.
The one time that happened to me recently, I was coming out of a Blockbuster Video store in Skokie, IL, when some chick pulled up and parked her car directly behind mine and the car next to mine (we were parked in perpendicular spaces; she parked in the traffic ailse behind us). There were several available parking spaces, but this MFFY was in too big of a hurry to use them. As she got out of her car, I said "um, would you mind moving your car so I can get out?" This seemed to really annoy her, and her lips tightened into a grimace as she held up her video cbuttettes that she was returning and shook them in the air, as if to say "I'll Be Just A Minute - how DARE you object to being blocked in?" It did, however, convince her to hurry up, and she quickly dropped off her tapes, ran back to her car, started it up, and screeched her tires as she sped away.
However, in most of the cases I have documented on my MFFY page, it would be pointless to confront those people, buttuming I had the free time to waste to sit around waiting for them to come out in the first place. It's satisfying enough just to make fun of them. ;)
The disingenuous part is how you seemed to be pretending that you don't agree with the basic message of the site. There isn't a person reading this thread who can honestly say that the people in those photographs are all justified in what they are doing, nor that asinine parking doesn't irritate them at least sometimes. However, I see you've admitted to that below, so perhaps I misunderstood your meaning.
As a matter of fact, I do - it's built into my cell phone. Can't you tell by the pooty quality of the pictures? :)
If it had been a polite "excuse me" ring, like normal people do, I wouldn't have said anything, either. But this guy was unbelievably petulant about it, and stood there ringing it over and over and over again to express his self-righteous indignation. You might think it was an overreaction, but you weren't there and you didn't see this guy. IMHO he deserved the comment.
-- Life is short - drive fast!
