Why'd you go and do that?

I'm all for being the bigger person, I'm all about taking the high road, I campaign for treating people the way you want to be treated and not the way they treat you.... just ask my kids. I realize we all sometimes accidentally do jerk things that were unintended, and sometimes we are just having a bad day and need some grace from someone else. And then sometimes people are just jerks. And it's not a miscommunication.

I was in a great mood and had walked across the parking lot thinking about how nice the weather was... not hot, not cold.  I'd been in my car less than 30 seconds when I realized someone had just beeped 3 consecutive times and then laid on their horn for the 4th beep (beep, beep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeep).  When I look out the side back window to see what was going on, I was in shock to see this young 20-ish face, that would be pretty if not for the scowl, mouthing words at me that appeared to say "Hurry up! Get out of the way!" Then? Well... all my blurbs about how to do life don't apply exactly in this situation. So I'm gonna turn off my car and check a couple emails. You can call it petty. I call it helping her. Because this was clearly a cry for help. She needed to get over herself, and I worried that pulling out after that would just feed her entitlement. I certainly didn't want to contribute to that in any way. 

I'm not sure she gained any perspective from her experience with me. But here's a blurb about doing life that does apply, "You catch more bees with honey." And I love me some honey. So pull up and let me see you waiting patiently like the next person did when you sped off, and I will break my neck to hurry up and back out so you can have my parking spot... And get to your plate of pancakes faster. 

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