08.17.07
Are You Serious?
As I got out of my car at the park and ride garage this morning, I saw a woman trying to find a parking place behind me. She pulled into one spot, and decided that she wasn’t going to fit (it looked like the people on either side of the spot had parked over the line), so she backed up again. As she was making her two-point turn to go the other way, she backed into the car just in front of where I was standing. I saw her car recoil, so I knew she must have felt the contact, but she didn’t stop.
I stood there for a minute in disbelief, as I watched the woman park in another spot, get out of the car, look at her own car, and then start walk off. I looked down to see if there was any damage to the car she’d hit, and seeing none, I proceeded to follow the woman down the stairs of the garage. I wasn’t sure what to do, since there wasn’t any damage to the car, but I felt like I should do SOMEthing.
I started to walk faster, and as we reached the bottom of the stairs, I turned to her and said: “I thought you should know that you hit the car behind you. You didn’t do any damage, but you hit the car.” She looked at me like I was from another planet, so I repeated myself: “You hit the car behind you as you were backing up. You didn’t do any damage, but you hit that car.” She started: “But, I…” I looked at her, and I walked away.
I don’t know if it was right, or if I should have done something else or something different. But I think I lost a little more faith in the human race, today.
