i think i just made an 'enemy'. living across the street. I came home after an interesting night at the theatre, road is blocked by a cab, i wait (what else can you do) eventually the cab moves, i find a parking space right opposite my house. car behind me, so i indicate, slow down, stop, ready to do some first class reverse parking. only that the car behind tries to squeeze in the gap. so i stop the parking, get out of the car, trying to find out what he is doing, wanting to ask him to reverse a little, cos i cant get into the space now (hoping that maybe he didnt really understand my intentions). i know i should have just moved on, living with the fact that he is an ignorant bastard, but i had a really shitty day and this outright rudeness for once should not go unnoticed.
so, i get to his car, he opens the door a bit and shouts out that this is his space and that i should move on and closes the door again. i wait, and wait. that's just not good enough. so he opens the door again and i say that i think that he is really rude taking my space. at that point he gets out of the car, starts shouting at me to piss off, this is his space, he lives there (i live opposite) and i should shit off. so i tell him that now i think he is really rude, which just results in further insults from his side. by this time a cyclist had stopped, watching the whole thing. the guy in the car actually came threateningly close at points and i was getting afraid that he was gonna hit me, so i was very glad for the cyclists presence.
eventually i get back into my car. his daughter comes out, asking what all the trouble was about (thinking that i was in the wrong for pinching 'his'space). so i park somewhere else. by the time i get back to the place of our little incident, he was still trying to park in and complaining to his daughter (while further insulting me). to which i only reply...'see how i think he is being rude'. daughter is getting a little embarrassed by all this and tries to usher him into the house (still shouting).
i know i should have stayed in the car, it's really not worth it, but i never expected to get such a reaction. i swear he was close to punshing me over a bloody parking space. It is just common courtesy to give whoever wanted to park in that space first the possibility of doing so and not just blocking the way without any further explanation. all i wanted was a good reason for him to park there instead of me and i would have even accedpted something banal as having loads of shopping, but he just blocked the way and instantly started shouting at me. even though (in my humble opinion) he was in the wrong.
i just don't get people anymore. maybe i'm being naive here, but this sort of behaviour is surely not acceptable. i know i shouldnt let this bother me, but it does. why is that people constantly get shuffed around because others feel like they have to exert some power. it sucks. and i'm gonna go to bed really angry now, which i know is a waste of energy, but i cant help it.
oh, and a note on the interesting night on the theatre...it was a circus thing. very nice acts, too much glitter and some random (rather ridiculous and rather bad) dancers. During one of their hopsy routines i laughed so much i actually started crying. i dont think they were meant to be funny, but i certainly enjoyed myself.
