Park it!

I really hate some people. Seriously.

I went to my gym the other day....MY gym!!! I love that place and have been going there for a couple of years now with no problems.

I parked, went in, lifted some weights, ran on the treadmill and about an hour later I was happily returning to my vehicle. Minding my OWN buisiness, I might add.

As I came up on the rear end I noticed something that hadn't been there before.

WRITING on the rear window of the camper shell on the back of my truck!

WRITING!

It said, "PARK RIGHT!!" in flourescent green pen. The kind that washes off. (I quickly checked by wetting a fingertip and wiping it across the writing to make sure some A-hole hadn't permanently damaged my truck!)

I stood there looking at this missive from, presumably, a fellow parking lot mate, perhaps even a fellow gym mate.

PARK RIGHT!!

I checked the lines and saw that I was actually well within them on both sides. I wasn't sqeezed in at an angle or anything. And I'll admit to some really horrendous parking on my part, specially when I'm in a hurry.

I tried to remember what kinds of vehicles I had parked between when I first got there. I remembered parking between two cars, maybe an SUV on one side. But couldn't remember the makes or models or even the colors.

Kojak would be so disappointed in my detective skills.

Anyway, by this time, the two other cars had left. I guess one of the drivers of those vehicles left really pissed off. But I couldn't figure out what I'd done.

What probably happened is I'd parked fine but the person on my right-hand side hadn't parked fine and was close to, or over, the line into my space. Because I exited through the left-hand door, however, I didn't notice. But they did when they tried to get in their door and didn't have enough room.

Ok, I thought, I probably didn't do anything wrong so no need to feel guilty.

So, instead I got really. really mad. Who the F! thinks it's OK to write on another person's car for poor parking (and I hadn't even parked poorly!)????

And, by the way, who has flourescent green pen that writes on windows handy to vandalize other people's cars at the drop of a hat?

I was fuming. I wanted to find this chick (I assumed it was a woman because I go to a women-only gym and there aren't any other businesses that use that parking lot) and get her to explain exactly what was going through her alleged mind at the time she defaced my property.

PARK RIGHT!!

I'll show her PARK RIGHT!! - right upside her head!

I didn't have anything with me to wipe off the offending message so I had to drive home with it scrawled across my rear window. Which means I had to see it every time I looked in my rear view mirror. GRRRRRR!

I got home and told my husband. I'd really worked myself up and was fairly shouting by that time and dragged him outside to see the "damage."

"It'll come off." That was all he said.

And it did.