So I guess no one is going to comment on the last post. That’s ok, I just learned that there is a good reason to make posts here aside from that. I decided to go through posts of this week in every previous year from the time I started writing in Xanga. It was quite interesting and caused me to remember many things. You should give it a try sometime… and apparently this week of August is when a lot of fairly major things have happened in my life… heh.. tho I guess this year breaks it, unless.. I dunno… I get that job that I am hoping to get or something.

At any rate, onto this whole WalMart thing. It actually happened the day before I left for the beach, and I wanted to post about it then, but I just didn’t get a chance to due to being busy with packing and such, but… I am posting about it now.

So I was at the WalMart over off of 85, which due to it’s being renovated to become a supercenter has a very messed up and annoying parking lot. So I was stuck at a certain spot in the lot, and was sitting there like 2 or 3 minutes waiting for cars to go by, when I noticed that this car in the row in front of me was getting ready to pull out. So I’m like, all right, I’ll just take that spot. So I pull up, realize that the person who pulled out isn’t going to get around me, so I back up a little… it’s at that point I see someone else is waiting on the spot too. I have no idea how long they have been waiting, I know that I’ve been waiting, and I know that I can get into the spot before them, so I do.

I then didn’t think too much of it, except that I probably made them mad, but they’d get over it. I proceeded to go inside to continue the search that I had started at Kohl’s for a duffel bag. After I have been in the store just a few minutes, and am over around the sporting goods looking to see where exactly I think duffel bags might be, this guy is walking from behind me, says something like ‘hey’, so, I turned around and looked at him. Tall kinda lanky black guy, cornrows in his hair… he was probably my age or slightly younger. He also seems to be upholding the stereotype against young black guys.

“That was a real asshole move you just pulled out there.”

“umm… ok?”

“I was sitting there waiting for that spot and for those cars to go by and you just swooped in and took it.”

“Well, actually, I was waiting too-“

“No you weren’t. I saw you. You were in the traffic lane.”

“Well, you don’t have to believe me, but I was. Goodbye.”

“No, I want you to realize that that was a real asshole move you pulled out there.”

“Goodbye.”

I proceeded to walk away, he proceeded to follow me.

“I’m going to follow you around and let everybody know what an asshole you are. Everybody, I want you to know that this guy is an inconsiderate asshole, he doesn’t care about anybody else….”

(Note: I was trying very hard not to laugh while he was saying that, because I didn’t really want to agitate him so he’d try to punch me or something, but it was reminding me SO much of the Family Guy episode where the guy follows Peter around going “hey everbody! this guy’s a phony! He’s nothing but a big fat phony!”)

“Fine, I’m an asshole, goodbye.”

“No-“

“goodbye.”

“I want you to apologize for being inconsiderate and admit that you didn’t wait for the spot.”

“I’m not apologizing for something I didn’t do.”

Continued walking around, I don’t remember if he was saying anything at this point or not, but he was probably running his mouth. Oh yeah, all this time one walmart employee was following us around from the beginning, and 1 or 2 others have started by this point, as well as a couple customers in the store were paying attention. So anyway, I eventually said…

“don’t you have anything better to do then follow me around?”

“yeah, but you pissed me off and ruined my day, so now I’m going to ruin yours.”

(special note: it did not ruin my day. it made me a little frustrated and on edge while he was around simply because there was the chance that he might decide to throw a punch or something. In the end, I have merely recieved a story to tell to several people and laugh about about this stupid guy who gets so upset over a parking space that it clearly wasn’t hard for him to replace since he was able to find me in the store 4 or 5 minutes later.)

So now I pretty much have decided he’s not going to stop following me, and I’m sick of being followed, so I stop and let the walmart employees approach. They come up and start trying to calm him down, he continues to run his mouth about the same things he had been saying, the walmart lady doesn’t seem to understand what he’s really upset about, and so I tell her he;’s mad because I took a parking spot that we were both waiting for. He’s still not really calming down at all, so they call for a manager. As soon as it is apparent a manager is coming he sort of changes his tone and goes with

“I just want you to realize that there are some people out there who wouldn’t just come and talk to you about this but they might beat you up in the parking lot”

“Maybe so, but anyone trying to beat someone up in a walmart parking lot in the middle of the day would have to be really stupid.”

Probably soemthing else was said and he walks off, as though he was just doing me a favor and he just doesn’t want me to get beat up.

Anyway, I stand there for a second, calm my nerves, walmart lady apologizes, I ask about duffel bags, i follow the manager who has now arrived over to where they are. I hear him on his walkie talkie that there is another manager that is actually following the other guy through the store. They actually followed him until he pulled out of the parking lot in his PT Cruiser, and the manager that was me actually walked me all the way out to my car. I asked him if that sort of thing happens very often. He said “occasionally, usually around Christmas when we run out of an item.”

Oh yeah, and they didn’t have any duffel bags that suited my needs.

The moral of the story is: Some people have some serious anger management issues. If you are so angry over losing a parking space, even if the person DID steal the spot without waiting, that you feel the need to follow them through a store, you may want to consider some serious therapy.