Bad parking.

 And a few laughs. 

Came out of the store to this…. For some reason it struck me as….funny.  I mean I had a momentary “what the fuck?” But then I saw the angle and figured they didn’t even see what they had done. I took a photo to send to Emery so we could laugh about bad parking.  

I was planning on just getting in on the passenger side. No big deal. 

Then the owner of this car comes up beside me and kinda in a freaked out or angry tone says , “ why are you taking a picture of my car?”  

Fair question. 

I just said, “ your parking job made me laugh.” 

Oh. More anger, “what’s wrong with my parking?”  

So I just did one of those sweeping gestures and started laughing.  I couldn’t help myself.  

They looked around me and all that defensiveness slid away. 

“Oh no.  Did I hit your car? I’m so sorry, let me move it. “ 

I just said, it’s ok.  We’ve all done it. And started laughing again. 

They asked, “if I didn’t hit your car, why did you take a picture?” 

“I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with my son.”

I told them I don’t have your plate in the photo promise. And we looked at the back end of these cars and both started laughing.  

We exchanged the “have a great day” and “enjoy this beautiful day” and they pulled out. 

Then I jumped in my car and sent it to Emery.  

Something about the broiling fear and anger of the world right now just evaporated. It could have ended differently. But why? It’s funny and we’ve all parked like jackasses sometimes. 

It’s always the small stuff.