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I can kind of understand someone parking in a disabled spot on accident and immediately realizing the error of their ways…

But this?

This is just too much!

And all I can say is that the guy who plays a leading role in this story sounds like a Grade-A CREEP.

I have a feeling you’re gonna agree with me, too!

Let’s take a look at what happened when a grocery store worker got upset with a guy who thought he could park anywhere he pleased.

Call me obscene names and park in a fire lane? Have fun with your ticket.

“This was years ago when I was a supervisor at a grocery store and as you know people love to park in the fire lane for who knows what reason (I am guessing because of entitlement or being lazy).

For our store this posed a few problems.

One it was getting in the way of us bringing in carts from outside and two is that we had a drive thru for our pharmacy and people where getting in the way of that too (I even had a car park in the drive thru, but that is a different, less satisfying story).

There are signs saying this is a fire lane and don’t park there.

Ok time for the story. One day I was checking our cart situation, when a car pulls into our fire lane and gets very close to our doors.

This is bad because I don’t want our cart guys accidentally hitting his car when they bring carts in… and you know, the whole illegal part.

Dude…come on…

I see him get out and come in through the door I am standing by. I ask him, “Please don’t park your car there, it is in the fire lane.”

His response was to stare at me and just continue walking.

Ok fine, I gave you a chance.

I inform my coworker working the service counter to call the police and inform them someone has parked in a fire lane. I inform the manager as well and I have told him the authorities have already been called.

It takes 10 minutes for the police to show up. The officer pulls up behind the car and my cart person comes and grabs me to tell me the police have shown up.

As I am walking out the door, guess who shows up?

That’s right, the driver and he sees the police car right behind his and the officer less than 10 feet away that I was walking out to talk to.

So what is his response now that this is happening? His response and I am a, directly quoting, “Piece of garbage”. I am not happy about, but I say nothing. Believe me I wanted to say something.

I head back in and inform the manager what just transpired, when in comes the officer. He would like to speak to me alone. I really had no idea what was wrong or if I was in trouble. Did I do something wrong by wasting his time or some other thing?

A ha!

Well it turns out that the officer heard his comment and was planning on giving him a disorderly conduct ticket for his language. I want to say also for him parking in the fire lane, but I fail to see how that relates to traffic.

He asks me if this is okay, I ponder this for a moment because I don’t want to head to court if I have to testify or some such thing, but then the words he said pop back into my head and I agree to give him the ticket.

Here is the kicker, the officer continues to inform me that he can’t do anything about the kid in the car, but he said he will inform the driver that he will mention this in his log and it will be seen by social services.

I was not expecting that.

I look over at the window to see the car and sure enough there is a kid about 6 or 7 in the back seat now jumping up and down. My only guess is that the kid was asleep when I first saw the car.

Wow, that far outweighs the parking in a fire lane or the car getting hit by carts.

This guy has probably been doing this for years…

One of the customers later came up to me to thank me for calling the police because she saw that kid was left alone in the car (I told her I didn’t know, but I would have called if I had seen that as well, pets too).

The officer leaves and I go back to work and relieve my service counter worker to go on break. Less than 5 minutes later the driver walks in and walks by the service counter and gives me the death stare.

All I could think was, “I just wanted you to park your car in a normal spot.”

And now thinking back on that, he still didn’t have his kid, I should have called the police again.”

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Well, was this satisfying, or what?

You bet it was!

This needed to be taught a serious lesson.

This guy thought the parking rules didn’t apply to him!