this is what happened to me today!
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| Fri, 01-12-2007 - 9:32pm |
Today when the little one I watch and i went to town to join the festival i parked infront of a pizza place. there was no sign that said i couldn't park there. I figured well i'll get pizza for the kids when i leave and we'll have that for dinner. well i get out of the car and get to the end of the parking lot and this guy comes up to me and tells me i can't park there. i tell him there are no signs that say i can't park there and i'm going to order a few pizza's when i get back to my car anyway! So i keep walking and he comes after me and tells me i have to move my car now. I told him i'd be back in a little bit and then i'd move my car after i bought my pizza's. well i went into the festival and we watched the band. i'm standing on the edge of the crowd trying to find out where to go and what to do when he comes up to me again and starts to yell at me to move my car now. well everyone is looking at me and i'm totally embarrassed now and k is clinging to my leg. i walked over to a cop and told him where i was parked and that i intened to purchase something when i got back to my car. he said i was ok and that as long as i purchased something from one of the stores and had a recipet they couldn't tow me. well i got to thinking that maybe i would go and move my car somewhere else just so i didn't have to deal with the hassle and then come back.
So i walk around the corner and go into the Highs store and bought a soda and some snacks. when i came out this man comes up to me and starts screaming at me to get my fat ace out of his parking lot!!! I was shocked i just stood there. this man is screaming at me calling me a witch with a B and just being very verbally abusive. at this point k is standing behind me holding on to my legs with a death grip and starts crying. I asked this man if it was nessisary for him to talk like that in front of a 3 year old. he said you can't park here its for customers only. I held up my purchases and showed him what i bought and my reciept and told him I am a customer! he kept screaming at me and calling me all sorts of dirty names so i called 911 and the police came. they said unfortunatly that verbal abuse is not a crime and that there was nothing they could do. They did tell the man that if he continued to treat people the way he did he would loose customers. I told this man oh you will definitly loose customers after people find out about this. in the meantime while i'm waiting for the police to come he is also screaming at another couple who pulled up to go into the highs and telling them they couldn't park there!!!
now if there were signs posted that you couldn't park there then i'd say ok and go somewhere else. but i was a paying customer to a store in that establishment and i felt they had no right to speak to me that way. even the guy who was working at Highs came out and told the police that yes i was one of his customers and he heard the man verbally abusing me. It just makes me really really angry that the owner of one of the stores would treat people this way. Along with the pizza place employees. I went to the resteraunt i always take k to and i asked the owner of the company if he knew the owner of Liquor store and he told me his name was Larry. I told him what had happend to me and he was surprised. so i'll be telling everyone i come in comtact with what type of place this is. i'm going to put an article in the local news paper column called "blow off your steam".
this guy doesn't realise he just messed with the wrong person. Loose business he doesn't even know what loosing business is. The cop told me I could tell anyone I wanted what happened as long as i told the truth. So I will make sure the truth is told and the comunity knows what type of busness they man runs!!!
Anyone else have any suggestions for me on how to handle this?
Robin

I have been verbally attacked by nasty strangers before, and it made me feel horrible. Good for you for calling the police. I don't have a cell phone so I've never done it, but I would have loved to.
That man sounds angry and out of control! Too many of them in the world.
Wow... That guy was on a real power trip. I would handle a situation like this by simply ignoring the man or maybe returning fire with words of my own. I may even park there longer just in spite of him.
For some reason it reminds me of this: http://www.lps1.com/bw.digg.html
It is completely different, but the article came to mind while reading.
Lin
Hey Robin,