Tip Tuesday-Seriously, People?!

I had a wonderful Tip Tuesday all planned out for today. It was about communication in a relationship. And I've got some true gems to share. But my day didn't quite go as expected. This afternoon, just minutes before we were finally going to go see the new preschool teacher, Lolly decided to throw up in the hallway. And all over the bathroom. Needless to say, we didn't go meet the teacher. On the bright side, CG was home early for work and got to clean up that mess while I cleaned up Lolly. Thank goodness for small miracles.

Unfortunately, my day got decidedly worse after that. I had to run to the store to get Babs some potty training pants to wear under her swimsuit because we start swim lessons up this week. I thought that since CG was home, it would be the perfect opportunity to run my quick errand while Babs napped and Lolly rested. Who knew what awaited me at my local Walmart.

As I was leaving the store, I saw that 2 women and their babies were getting into the car next to mine. So, to be courteous, I walked around to the other side and put my bags behind the drivers seat. We have a van so the sliding doors make it easy for us to slide in and out, all slithery-like. But the woman who was using the door next to my van seemed.....irritated. She actually seemed like she's probably irritated all the time. And a lot of fun to be around.

Now, whenever I'm getting my kids in or out of the car, I feel a little awkward if someone is standing there waiting for me to finish so they can carry on with whatever they're doing. So, thinking I was being courteous, I hurried and slipped into my car so I'd be out of the way. And there were inches, INCHES, between our doors so it wasn't a big deal. Until she said "don't let me get in your way". Um, what?! Like I said, a lot of fun to be around. Now, in my naivety I thought that maybe I had just misunderstood her or something and didn't say anything back. Also, I'm horrible at confrontation. So, since the women were both on the other side of their car talking (probably about me) I decided to just go ahead a pull out and be out of the way. Apparently that is offensive. Because as I drove away on classy lady yelled "you're a winner" while flipping me off and the other classy lady called me a bitch. To her credit, she may have said witch, but the intent is the same so you're not exactly scoring extra points in heaven for not swearing.

And I reacted to this encounter the way any mature, socially responsible individual who is just barely hanging on to what is left of her sanity would. I cried. Because, seriously?! Why did that just happen? And, also, I'm not coping super well these days and didn't handle their random meanness very well. I've never had that happen to me before. Complete strangers yelling at me in a parking lot......it's just so......white trash.

It is taking every ounce of self control to not post a full car description, including license plate number, so that all my millions of followers can track them down and harass them. But I'm not going to do that, at least not tonight, because I'd like to think that I'm a better person than that. And as much as I didn't want to let that ruin my day, or effect me at all, it did. It has been stuck in me all afternoon. Even now, I'm still upset about it. And that bugs me even more. So, I am going to go drown my sorrows by eating ice cream. Straight from the carton. Because I am a winner.