Social Commentary
09/01/2005 02:55 a.m.
I'm amazed and down right disgusted by some people.

I would say that I had a better than "average" day... I mean nothing spectacular happened, but I was upbeat after work, looking forward to getting some food to share at the church supper and Bible supper tonight, contemplating the refugees that are already in my city and the evacuees that are headed here tonight.

My school is collecting "toiletries" to take to one of the shelters, and I knew my church would be planning something as well, I was looking forward to learning about it....

and then ....

and then... I went to Walmart. I just needed to run in and get a cooked chicken and a side dish. I found a parking space about half-way up the middle aisle, without even searching. I'm walking towards the store holding my 7 yr. old son's hand, talking about school, and what we'll get to take to church. I get to the end of the aisle and I'm cutting the corner of the very first parking space to get into the striped section, and someone starts blasting their horn.

I stopped, and turned around to look, only natural right? The woman driving the car starts pointing at me and gesturing, etc. she gets out of the car, and I looked at her and very milding stated "that wasn't necessary" and she goes ballistic. She started yelling and screaming obsenities at me, in front of my son and everyone else in the parking lot. I again said "it wasn't necessary to honk, in fact it was rude, you scared my son" and she used her profanity to tell me that my son ought to be scared and thankful that she honked and didn't hit him... My son was holding my hand, walking next to me, like a normal person (not the hyper active one he usually portrays)...

Now, there have been plenty of times I would have turned around and cursed her right back and then some... but I started walking away, as she continued to scream at me and people are looking. When I was about 20-30 feet away, as she was still screaming at me, I turned and very loudly told her "Well God Bless you for just honking your horn at people".

I was REALLY tempted to leave a note on her car "'That which you sow you shall reap' someday someone will show you and your familly the same treatment that you show to others". I didn't, but I really did think about it!

And I'm thinking..you know was it really that important to have the first parking spot? Granted she had a handicap placard, but don't most people these days. I mean she was AT LEAST 150 lbs overweight, maybe if she walked a little farther she'd lose some of that weight and wouldn't NEED the placard. And what was with the Seven Dwarfs stuffed dolls in her seats? 2 in the passenger seat and 4 or 5 in the back? She was CERTAINLY no Snow White?!

With everything that is going on right now, all of the troubles and concerns just in the Gulf Coast right now... was it so important to have that parking place, and under those circumstances... would it have killed her to wait 30 seconds for us to clear the corner of the parking spot?

Our nation today... it's not a UNITED States, it's a ME ONLY Nation... at least for way too many people. It's sad, it's really deplorable and disgusting the way that some people think only of themselves and this moment.
I am currently Disillusioned