- So Friday afternoon, Kelly comes to pick me up from the GO train station. Since the actual GO train parking lot is a disaster, we usually use the adjacent Home Depot parking lot and find it a bit faster for getting out of. So she picks me up, and we're leaving the parking lot... It's a usual parking lot exit, two lanes, one inbound, one outbound. Even if you're headed outbound and turning left, and hugging the left side of the outbound lane, there isn't enough room on the right for someone else to pull up beside you and turn right -- not unless you take some of the inbound lane as well. Of course, the train just having arrived, the street which we're attempting to turn left onto is very busy and there are no lights. In addition, there is another plaza directly across this busy street where another parking lot also exits, and since there are no traffic lights, it is effectively a two-way stop...
- We hadn't even been stopped for more than 10 seconds waiting for an opening, when a car starts honking behind us. A few short honks, and then immediately after, the driver starts to lay into the horn continuously. And this continues for some time. There was still no opening, and so we're still waiting, and wondering what the driver behind us expected us to do. In the passenger seat, I turned around to get a look at who was honking -- a middle-aged guy with bad sunglasses driving a 5-series BMW, throwing his arms up in frustration. At this point, Kelly had started to honk back, because the driver behind us was still continuing to honk, even though anyone with a brain as big as a pea would have realized that there was no where we could go.
- It gets better though! Next thing we know, about a minute later, the driver behind us actually gets *out* of his car, and starts to walk up to our car. He comes up to the window and starts yelling and screaming: "Do you know how to drive? What the fuck is your problem you stupid bitch?".
- Were we ever mad by this point. But he finally decides to go get back into his car and continue honking -- but not before gesturing to the cars behind him that he can't imagine what's wrong with us.
- So I got out of the car, pulled the tire iron out of the trunk and proceeded to completely and utterly destroy this guy's car. ;)
- But really, we pull out, almost getting into an accident because he's driven us crazy. And then he proceeds to turn right, getting on with his life.
- Question is, where's the fire? And if it were me, I'd think twice about how I'd treat other people when I park my $80,000+ car in a Home Depot parking lot while I'm gone the entire day.