Friday, September 07, 2007

You Tell Me

We are having a big garage sale on campus right now. The home isn’t putting it on, but rather is renting out space to a private individual to hold the sale. This person collects stuff, then sells it and donates the money to charity and gives the home a cut as well.
We have a rather narrow circular drive on campus. Signs direct traffic one way around the drive. However, to go that direction requires that one navigate almost the entire campus to arrive at the location of the garage sale, which is visible at the fork in the drive. Obviously, some people don’t look at the sign and rather look at the sale, then drive the wrong way up the drive to the sale.
I was watching from the porch today as one woman did just that. She drove up to the sale the wrong way on the one-way drive, parked on the wrong side of the drive right next to the sale, and got out. After she got out, she looked around a little at all the other cars pointed the other direction. I might add that she appeared from all aspects to be healthy and mobile. She also looked at the sign which was right beside her car telling her to not park there. She looked a minute, took a couple steps toward her car, stopped, looked for a legitimate parking place, didn’t see any within 50 feet of the sale, then went back toward the sale.
You tell me. Was this woman A. An idiot (in the legitimate, psychological sense of the word); B. Illiterate; C. Hoping someone would smash her car that was parked in the lane of traffic; D. So eager to buy stuff at the sale that she willingly disobeyed clear signeage; E. Thinking she somehow had a right to park in a lane of traffic; F. So full of herself that she hadn’t a clue; G: Thinking the rules applied to everyone but her?
Let me know what you think. Thanks.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would add
H: Lazy and inconsiderate

;)

Jason, and Rebekah

Wild Flower said...

I like E, F and G. Sorta the same thing there. A person full of themselves wouldn't have a clue, would think they had rights superceding everyone else, AND there are rules, but she's above those. All of the above.

Anonymous said...

I VOTE FOR E, F, G, & H.