srsly

i flipped out in a parking garage the other day. there was a very good reason for this and i’ll give you a little preface so that maybe you can understand my reasons for doing what i did.
i’m a fairly aggressive driver, i’ll admit it. i also have a very short temper in the car. this is because i appreciate driving, and i would say a pretty safe driver. i pay attention to mirrors, constantly check my blind spot, and mostly stay within the speed limit. the reason i get really pissed off in the car is because other people don’t do these things and seem to me to just be generally inconsiderate.
one bastion of this inconsideration is the parking garage at northgate north. this building houses a target, g.i. joes, best buy, and a couple other things. the parking garage is 4 stories tall because the stores are all stacked on top of each other. it is also very narrow. there is parking along either side of the ramp that goes up for 2 stories, then it widens out with a lot more space. the problem here is that for some dumbass reason, people NEED to park on the ramp parking spaces. these spaces are tricky to get in to since they’re very close together, some cornerd by concrete posts, and are on an incline. yet people insist on waiting for cars to pull out of these spaces so they can get in. why is this a problem? because ever 10 seconds spent waiting for that space is another car piling up behind you on the ramp for two fucking stories.
this happened to me and about 20 other cars. some jackass followed a person to their car, proceeded to wait for this person to load their things into their car and back out. all the while other cars were coming down the ramp, causing the person backing out to have to wait, and in turn the rest of us. i mentioned before these ramp spots are tricky to get into without traffic coming from the other direction. so the person wanting to get into the spot has to wait for an opening in oncoming traffic to swing out and get in. a break comes, but apparently they didn’t swing out far enough. so now they are blocking both directions trying to maneuver into this space. this is where i lose it.
i leaned out of my window and shouted, very loudly, over the guy in the pickup in front of me revving his engine, “OMG THIS ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE!!!” people walking down the ramp to the stores looked at me like i was fucking nuts. i must have had a pretty crazed look on my face. brian was in the car with me. he seemed to think it was funny, and it was. but man did that feel good.
generally speaking i resist these urges to lash out at strangers, but occasionally it’s warranted and you need to do these things so you don’t bottle up and like, kill someone.