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\nWhere do all these crazy people come from<\/b><\/a>?!?\n<\/p>\n

\nI just had a very weird encounter. I was coming around the corner of a building, looking for a parking spot when I see this car start pulling through a parking spot. Thinking that she was leaving, (and that once she was gone I would have a nice pull-through parking spot) I stopped and gave the universal little “go ahead” wave. After a few seconds, she pulled ahead and I pulled through into the spot that had been behind her. I parked my car, got out and started walking to the store when I heard this voice behind me.\n<\/p>\n

\n“EXCUSE ME, I WAS GOING TO PARK THERE.”\n<\/p>\n

\nI turned around to see the same woman in her car.\n<\/p>\n

\n“You were going to park … here?” (pointing to my car)\n<\/p>\n

\n“NO. I WAS GOING TO PARK WHERE I WAS.”\n<\/p>\n

\nDumbfounded, all I could think of to say was “Sorry.”\n<\/p>\n

\nCompletely puzzled, I continued on my way to the store thinking, If you were going to stay there, why did you move?<\/i> After much thought, the only conclusion I can possibly think of is that somehow she took my little “Go ahead” gesture as a “GET OUT OF MY WAY!” gesture. But even still, I’m not a very imposing person, and I was in my car, quite a bit back from her, so I don’t think I could have come across as aggressive in that sense. I just can’t figure out why she thought I would be “forcing” her out of the spot or why she would move. A simple, “turn off the car and get out” would have easily signaled to me that she was parking, and not leaving.\n<\/p>\n

\nI had no idea I had so much power.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy only comfort is that as I was walking into the store, a man who had seen the whole thing gave me a sympathetic smile, and a shrug of the shoulders, confirming that it wasn’t just me who thought the whole thing was a little odd.\n<\/p>\n

\nPeople are strange<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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