Wednesday, February 10, 2010

It's a biiiiig driveway...


In the summertime, the driveway easily accommodates six vehicles. With winter snow squeezing space in, five large vehicles can comfortably share the driveway.

So Simone was not impressed when she got home yesterday and saw two vehicles in her driveway. One, a pick up truck, was parked at the top of the driveway near the garage and off to the side, occcupying one (1) spot.

The other, a relatively small car was parked at an angle at the bottom of the driveway near the road, effectively preventing anyone else from parking, short of scratching their vehicle to bits in an effort to get past the obstacle.

Simone put her left turn signal on, unwisely waiting in the middle lane to make a turn into her driveway, and called the tenants who live in the basement of her house on her cell phone. No answer.

She called again.

No answer.

She called a third time.

The vehicle behind her began to honk. There was lots of space in the right lane for anyone and everyone to pass but, sighing, Simone moved into her neighbour's driveway. After instructing the 11 year old to stay put with the 3 year old, Simone rushed to the basement of her house and knocked on the door.

No answer.

She knocked again.

Still no answer.

She knocked a third time.

Ah ha! The owner of the vehicle opened the door.

"Yes?" she asked.

"You own the red car, right?" Simone asked.

You might think that at this point the said owner of the red vehicle would remember that she had parked her car sideways in the driveway, effectively preventing anyone else from parking there.

Apparently not.

"Yeeessss?" The red vehicle owner gave Simone a blank stare.

Sigh.

"Your car is blocking the driveway," Simone said. "Could you either move it forward or to the side? I can't get in."

"Oh," said the girl. And, fortunately for Simone's already precarious level of sanity, she did move her car.

"Thank-you," said Simone to the red car owner as they both exited their cars.

"Oh, you're very welcome," replied the red car owner in a most gracious manner.

If only it were that "simple" in parking lots....

2 comments:

Alex said...

Amazing show of restraint Mrs. M!
I am delighted to read that no loss of limb or life occurred
:))))
Best Regard, Alex

Simone Maroney said...

Thanks, Alex :-)
Sometimes though, it's extremely tempting to go up to the person, knock on their forehead and peer suspiciously into their eyes while shouting, "Hellooooooo? Is anybody home?" Then shake your head regretfully and walk away muttering, "I didn't think so..."