Why do people have to be like that?

Yesterday Lee was telling me about a “Lady” (And I use the term lightly) that had pulled into their already crowded and small private parking lot at work. They clearly have signed posted that say “No Parking. Parking for (his company’s name) patrons only. Cars will be towed at owners expense.” Now even if I could not read, I would know that the big red P that was circled in red and had a line through it would indicate that I could not park there. Guess she couldn’t read or just thought that she was “special” or something.
She proceeded to park her car, get out and start to walk across the street. One of Lee’s co workers stopped her and said “Excuse me ma’am but you can not park there. This area is for our store customers only.” She looked at him and said “I am just going across the street.” He proceeded to tell her, “I am sorry but you will have to move your car.” She started in on him with “You people are racist.” REALLY? Nothing was said about the color of your car. Lee’s co worker walked back into the building as she began to pull her car out of the parking spot. She stopped in the middle of the driveway, rolled down her window and threw all the trash in her car out the window. Then began calling all of them every cuss word a sailor knows.
Why do people have to act like that?
What made her think she was above the law and can park in a no parking zone? What is racist about asking you to move your car since you were A. illegally parked and B. not a patron of the store?
Was it really necessary for her to be so belligerent throwing trash and cussing like a sailor? Maybe next time the employee’s should follow the rules and have her car towed at her expense instead of being “civil”.

So many times I hear (and I am GUILTY of it too) people express their opinions out loud. Or express their opinion about a topic that may offend someone standing near by or even the person they are talking to.
I heard this comment this week and it made me go “Hue.”“If people think that riding my bumper while I am in the “fast lane” is going to make me go faster then they have another thing coming!” My first thought was:Why can you just not get out of their way if they are not able to get around you?
But what I really wanted to say was: (and this is the Mario Andretti in me!)“No, we are not only hoping you will go faster, but we are hoping that you will get out of the way and stop holding up traffic!”

Follow the 90/10 rule.
10% of life is made up of what happens to you.
90% of life is decided by how you react.

10% of your issue was that someone was riding your bumper.
90% of why you were still mad about it an hour after you were at work was stress that you brought on yourself. You could have moved over. You could have speed up. (not really safe…but)
It made you mad. “How dare they? Do they not know that I am going as fast as I want to?”
Turn it around.
10% would be spent on moving over. Done finished.
90% would have been spent on getting to work safely, and having a better day instead of letting a stranger mess up your ride into work.

We have rights in America and THANK YOU to all our service members who fight for our rights, but we don’t have the right to be “mean, hateful, rude, crude, obnoxious, belligerent, sassy, mouthy ect…”
We do have the right to treat each other with “kindness, love, respect, compassion, benevolence, humanity, care, concern ect..”

Be kind to one another … and to yourself!