You know that song, "No more Mr. Niceguy," I'm sure you've probably heard it hundreds of times. I think it's Alice Cooper.
For the past several months I've taken on that attitude. I'm certainly polite 95% of the time, but there are people in my life right now who are finding out how many cuss words I know. People who have been not so nice to me. People who have taken advantage of me, or perhaps have tried kicking me when I was down..... They're also finding out how much and how long I've kept things bottled up. I'm not unleashing tons of anger on every single person who's done me wrong--it's not like that. I'm giving the "What-for" to those who have been sort of picking on me for quite some time and they have continued to do so once I pointed it out to them. I know, I'm portraying myself as a hysterical woman, but it's not that extreme. I'm just not holding my tongue anymore.
And today I let the attitude slip a little on a stranger.
This morning a guy honked his horn at me in an empty parking lot because I suppose he felt he had the right of way. He didn't. We both approached a turn at the same time from two different directions. I didn't stop and let him by, so he honked. Normally I'd just ignore and keep going. Today I put the car in park, shut it off, and opened my car door. Empty parking lot, with just the two of us there, and I fully intended on walking over and kicking a dent in the door of his little Jeep Cherokee. Instead I asked if there was a problem. He declined to answer. He just gestured at me like I was holding up traffic. All the backed up traffic in the empty parking lot of a closed grocery store.
People who honk for no apparent reason (as if they're a good samaritan preventing a traffic accident) are really a pet peeve. There was actually a study released last year--printed in the AAA magazine I believe--that said there is rarely if ever an accident avoided by someone honking their car horn. Horns are generally used to piss off other people driving.
If an accident is truly being avoided, it's because the driver used defensive techniques like braking and steering. No time to honk in those situations.
So, this gentleman wasn't skillfully avoiding a collision, he just wanted to be an ass.
And I called his bluff.
I didn't scream and yell, stomp around, pull a gun or anything---I just didn't ignore it and shrug it off like I normally do.
Let that be a warning to ya!!!
Yeah, right.
