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Bharathi Prabhu’s brush with an insensitive soul who had parked wrong left her fuming
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Shouting in public is something I’ve rarely done.
After a recent shopping trip, we found our car’s exit blocked by another car. My husband decided to trace him, and returned finally saying: “I have told him that we can’t take our car out. He should be here soon.”
After waiting for a while our patience began to wear thin. I fretted. My husband went back again and returned fuming: “He is uncouth, said he was coming when I explained, but showed no signs of moving.”
After another 10 minutes he pointed out to a young fat man as the owner of the offending car. He was checking his bill and talking. No indication that he would hurry. I walked up to him and said: “Because you didn’t park your car properly we had to wait for 20 minutes”.
Incredibly, the man looked me up and down and said “Wait na, I’m coming” with a look that said, “So what if you had to wait”.
No apologies for parking wrongly, no apologies for taking his own time in coming out. I asked “How could you have parked like this?” and he answered, with a smirk: “Ask the security guard?” One look at the young security guard and we knew this car owner had overridden his protests.
By my anger had increased so much I started yelling. I knew I was incoherent and loud and that my voice was cracking. His wife called me an illiterate woman and I called her husband uncouth.
I yelled at their insensitivity and they yelled back at my yelling. Even after they drove away, I was shaking.
Although still unable to believe that I yelled at strangers, I’m glad I did!
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