I'm soooooo unbelievably sick of the apathetic, don't give a f*ck about anything attitude of the average citizen in this country. It's really gotten beyond ridiculous. They couldn't care less about their OWN property, let alone someone else's. It doesn't matter where you park, of how you park it. Someone WILL park next to you, and your car stands a very good chance of getting dinged (if not worse). Unfortunately for them, even though acquaintances of mine think I'm a very mild mannered guy, and wouldn't expect it from me, I have a very.....VERY bad temper when I finally snap. I remember when I was moving out of an apartment a few years ago. I went back to make sure everything was clean and in order, and to video tape and snap some pics of the condition of the apartment before the management came in to look at it (in case they tried to claim something that wasn't there, or exaggerated about anything). I go back to my car, and some douchebag had parked their beat up, white Ford Aerostar really crooked, and less than a foot away from my driver's door. I was fuming to say the least. I had to get in through the passenger side, and crawl over to the driver's seat. Then I had to try backing, and straightening out 2 times to clear the van the way this jackass had parked. So when I finally got out of the space, I parked the car behind his van, took out my notebook and magic marker, and wrote "LEARN HOW TO PARK ASSHOLE". I then checked to see that no one was around, got out, stuck the paper under his windshield, and then proceeded to completely deflate both his passenger side tires. That way, even with his spare, s/he'll be just one tire short of being able to go anywhere.
And then there's the way people drive. Whether it's because they're too stupid/oblivious to realize what they're doing is a hazard, or it's because they just don't care who they're endangering, the way people drive says a lot for how low this society has sunken. And the worst part is their reaction to you honking at them when THEY are CLEARLY in the wrong. That suggests a "f*ck you. I'll do whatever I want, go f*ck yourself" attitude. Again....BIG mistake with me. :th_mischievious: I remember coming down Ogden Ave on the way home one night, and there was an early '90s Chevy Blazer in front of me. He started decelerating a bit, and after a few seconds, abruptly slammed on his brakes to turn into the Ogden Mall entrance on the right (with no signal) that I presume he didn't originally know was there. So I had to slam on MY brakes to avoid smashing into him, and I laid on my horn as I did. As he's making his turn, I see the arm go up with his hand extending one finger. Once again, I lost it. I put the pedal to the floor, made the next right into the side street that runs next to the strip mall, and made another right into the mall parking lot, tires squealing all the while as I keep an eye on the Blazer to see where it's at. He had parked at the K-Mart lot right by the entrance I came through, and the guy was waddling his way very quickly to the door as he heard me coming. It was JUST after 9 PM, so the store had closed, but he preceeded to pry the exit door open, and enter the wrong way. So I parked perpendicular to his Blazer, and waited. After 10 minutes, I got sick of that. I just took my magic marker again (yes, I used to have it in the car often back then), and wrote F*CK YOU in big letters on his windshield, and drove off.
I have a good dozen more stories just like these. Now....I'm sure some will say this is taking things too far, and that it's not my job or my place to do these things, but I don't care. I'm sick to death of people feeling like they can do whatever they want without consequences, or having to take responsibility for their actions, because our pathetic justice system has no way to regulate such things. They know the scale is tipped in their favor. Someone has to balance the scale again. The only thing that gets under my skin is realizing afterwards that this changed nothing. Sure, you may scare the s*it out of someone this minute, or for the next day or two, but as soon as they get some distance from the event, they'll be right back to doing what they were doing before. You can't change people unfortunately, no matter how s*hity or inconsiderate they may be.