Today’s question is: Why do people park like idiots?

Background: Honestly, is anyone else bugged by this? I can not tell you how many times I’ve tried, ever so hard, to get my vehicle into a parking space only to have the guy next to me either parked wrong in the space. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just because we are a world of busy people. Other times I wonder if it’s an entitlement issue. You know, I’m so gosh darn important, I need to park where and how I need to park, who cares about the next guy.

I don’t buy into that mentality, at all. I’m the parker that parks, gets out and if the car is too close to one line or the other I actually get in and move it over a bit. I can’t say if it’s because I want to be nice or if I’m afraid of a road rage guy parking next to me and keying my car. Both have occurred to me, being nice and being afraid.

The parkers I am most dumbfounded by are the ones that feel it is OK to park their car in front of a driveway or some other non questionable no parking zone get out and go do whatever their all important selves need to do. It actually makes me kind of mad that people would even ever park that way. There is no question in my mind that these people feel a special kind of entitlement. No one is more important than them.

One last note. At the turkeys school there is a car pool line. The way it works is you drive through the line to pick up your turkey (if you don’t walk like I do or park in a parking spot somewhere else). If the line is full you drive around the block (no big deal right?) until the line lightens up a bit. There is a small space in the front of the line that is a no parking zone, usually where the turkeys cross the street. Several people, upon arriving late and having a full line, decide it’s OK to quickly pull over and pick up their turkey in this small space. In my opinion it’s kinda rude and not at all safe to pick up your turkey in this manner. One day the car monitor (we have one, when we can sucker someone into it), approached one of the illegal, selfish, small space picker uppers and asked him to move along. His response was (I kid you not) “Give me a ticket then, I have more money than I have time”. And there you have it, some people in our society would rather pay the price then play by the books. A lovely lesson to teach our little turkeys, no?