Post office line cutter -- what would you do?


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classicliberty is offline classicliberty Post #1  December 10,2009, 5:29pm
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When the parking at the local post office is full, cars wait in a line along the road and into the entrance for spaces to open up before pulling into a space. Anyway, today the line was especially long. While in line, one driver (who was far back) decides to drive by everyone (squeezed her car through ) and pulls right up to the front and waits for a space. I happened to be the next in line to get a space, so she passed me last. She takes the space, so my question is -- what, if any, would be your response?
 
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I honestly don't think I'd do anything outwardly but I'd be SEETHING inside, and would probably become grumpy for at least a half hour afterward. LOL

Funny how the holidays bring out the worse in some people, huh?

How about the rest of you - how would you react?
 
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You could ... park across the back of her car, blocking it in, while you go do your errand. ... key her car. ... confront her inside the PO. Etcetera!

All a very bad idea.

The only thing that works for me with these things is to have the thought "how terrible it must be for her to have to BE her ... at least I only have to have this brief encounter with her ... she has to deal with herself 24/7"
 
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I'd go postal on that woman lol.
 
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On one occasion I did leave a note (anonymously) under someone's windshield about their behavior in a parking lot. The reason I did was the woman had a child with her. I told her that I hoped she would set a better example for her child in the future.

That is the only time I have ever done anything like that. Otherwise I would just roll my eyes. Sometimes when someone does something like that I try to find someone else to do something nice for. I don't know why that helps me shake of a bad incident but it does.
 
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I'm a little worried what my reaction to that might be.

Last week I was having lunch with a buddy and a...hmm...lady isn't the right word...in her 30's (guess) pulls right into a handicapped space by the door, trots right in to a table, sits down, and starts blabbing away on her phone. After seething for a few minutes, I flipped my complimentary place mat, grabbed a box of complimentary crayons, and wrote her a note, which I walked outside and placed on her windshield for all to see.

It said..."You sure don't look handicapped, maybe it's just your soul." Two other tables caught my eye with laughs and a thumbs up. It's not world peace, but it made me feel better. Rude people suck.
 
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hazmat wrote :
I'm a little worried what my reaction to that might be.

Last week I was having lunch with a buddy and a...hmm...lady isn't the right word...in her 30's (guess) pulls right into a handicapped space by the door, trots right in to a table, sits down, and starts blabbing away on her phone. After seething for a few minutes, I flipped my complimentary place mat, grabbed a box of complimentary crayons, and wrote her a note, which I walked outside and placed on her windshield for all to see.

It said..."You sure don't look handicapped, maybe it's just your soul." Two other tables caught my eye with laughs and a thumbs up. It's not world peace, but it made me feel better. Rude people suck.
I busted someone at the pet store earlier this week doing the same thing! I walked up to him in the store, after watching him practically sprint for the door, and said, "Gee sir, I noticed you forgot to put your disabled placard in the window. I'd sure hate to see you get a ticket over forgetting something like that." He muttered something, but I didn't quite catch the whole thing, as I was walking away from him.

I noticed that he was getting a ticket as I was walking out to my car later on. Bet that made his day when he got out there! That kind of stuff just makes me really mad.
 
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I wouldn't care - but then, I don't wait in lines in the first place.

I think it is very bad to confront aggressive or erratic people (someone may by intoxicated, have a weapon, just been fired, cought their partner cheating ...)

A situation can escalate out of your control quickly, and your moral sancimony isn't going to look pretty enough on your gravestone.

Also, people may have a personal emergency, and ailment, or a mental illness ...

I'd have parked a block away, immediately, and walked. Be in and out while the lazy people were still fuming in their cars.
 
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D_Lion wrote :
I wouldn't care - but then, I don't wait in lines in the first place.

I think it is very bad to confront aggressive or erratic people (someone may by intoxicated, have a weapon, just been fired, cought their partner cheating ...)

A situation can escalate out of your control quickly, and your moral sancimony isn't going to look pretty enough on your gravestone.

Also, people may have a personal emergency, and ailment, or a mental illness ...

I'd have parked a block away, immediately, and walked. Be in and out while the lazy people were still fuming in their cars.
Usually the best alternative to fighting over close in parking anywhere.

One Christmas season I had to go to the Post Office and the cars were lined up for parking. I parked at the lot of the large sporting goods store across the street and walked in.
 
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