So I stopped to pick up a pizza on the way home from work the other evening. The parking lot was virtually empty, but that didn't stop some chap in a pickup truck from parking about four inches from my driver's side. I was walking back to my car as he pulled in, and I said out loud, "Really?" His response was that I was the one parked too close to the white line, not him. I looked down and commented, "Fair point", and got in my car. As he was walking away, he rather snarkily said, "Have a nice day." I couldn't resist - my response, "I'm driving a ninety thousand dollar Jaguar - what kind of day do you think I'm having?"

Yeah, I guess sometimes, I'm one of "those guys", too.

 

 

That reminds me of a prank that was played on me several years ago. At the time, I was driving a Chrysler 300C with the 5.7 liter engine and all the options. At the time, I was living in Georgia, and it had been a fairly dry season. It wasn't until it actually snowed (!) that I needed to turn on the wipers, only to discover that someone had removed the windshield wiper from the driver's side of the car. I wasn't mad about it. Rather, I laughed and thought it was a classic practical joke, since the effect wasn't noticed until a good long time after the prank was pulled, yet it still had its intended result.

Note: Do not try this at home, unless your intended victim is as inattentive to detail as I was, although to be fair, the wipers tucked down behind the rear of the hood when not in use, so they weren't usually visible to the driver.