You know this has happened to you...
The quick stop by the grocery store isn't nearly as quick as expected. The kids are screaming or otherwise demonstrating their special flavor of attitude. That visit to the DMV was more unpleasant than expected. The list goes on.
So you leave whatever location that has already upset you; you're privately (or publicly) fuming over something or someone. At that moment, life couldn't be more unpleasant or inconvenient. Sure, you may be better off than millions of people at that very moment, but you feel exceptionally under water.
Then you walk outside to where you've parked the car...and someone has parked so poorly that you cannot open your door completely or cannot back out clearly. The first "clean" thing to enter your mind or escape your lips is something like: "Are you kidding me?!?"
We've all been there. We're hurried or upset over something and that poor parking job is the icing on cake, the cordial cherry that doesn't treat you so cordially. Sure, you find a way to squeeze into the car or back out without scratching up cars...but that's not the point. After all the garbage you've been through, this inconvenience couldn't have come at a worse time. A bad day has just become a horrific day...and maybe you even let out some expletives in response.
Therein lies one small way to effectively ruin someone's day. Just face it, when you're having a bad day, the last thing you need is someone's poor parking job needlessly complicating an already complicated day.
So...in the interest of all that is good, please think twice when you park at a store, school, etc. It only takes a few seconds to park "between the lines"...and you just might help prevent ruining someone's day. Otherwise, those fresh dents on the fenders, doors, and sides of your car might have a logical origin...
(For the record, I've never intentionally dented someone's door for that reason...even though the thought has crossed my mind before...hehehe)
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