So Kevin and I were visiting a local Petco this week to get a toy for Indy. I have to squeeze my little Cavalier into a spot because the huge SUV next to me had parked a good two feet over the line and attempt to get out.
When I open the driver's-side door, it just grazes the passenger door of the SUV. I hop out and, of course, come face-to-face with the irate SUV owner, freaking out that I dared to touch his car. He (with his wife and young children) is yelling, dropping f-bombs left and right, and just generally flipping out that I dared touch his precious car. I scurry into the store thinking, "If you're so bent out of shape about your car, don't park three spots from the door and try parking between the lines for a change, chief."
We were in the store not more than five minutes when, upon exiting, we find that the pissed-off guy had hocked a GIANT loogie on my window. Say it with me now: Ewwwwwwwwwww. It was huge, and seriously gross. I guess I'm just lucky he didn't a.) spit INTO the car, b.) key my car or c.) confront me physically in the parking lot (it would be a shame if Kevin had to get beat up defending my honor in a pet store parking lot).
But still. I hope he chokes on his horrible gas mileage.
Mallory Medved is an assistant managing editor of weekly publications for
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Christina Chapman is a Will County resident who desperately wants to live in Grundy County. But since she lost that battle with her boyfriend when they bought a house, she makes due covering Grundy County news for The Herald News in Joliet. When not covering municipal meetings, school events and finding the truth behind the latest coffee talk, she is trying to balance life as a young home owner who is fighting the stereotype that she is living in sin because she is not yet married. She hopes to share with you her perspective on life and the news in hopes that you’ll share yours.
What a fine example of masculinity for his impressionable children.