Just Simply Holly

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m quick to become angered at times, especially when I see or am part of something that is totally ridiculous! This morning, while out shopping with my 70 year old mother and almost 13 year old daughter I had something happen that went beyond ridiculous! While I don’t normally talk about the area that I’m from, I feel the need to in the hopes that the “stranger” involved in this situation realizes what an A$$HAT he is!

I live in the NW Ohio area, just outside of the towns of Toledo and Holland. This morning I met my mom at the Spring Meadows shopping area because she was taking my daughter shopping for her upcoming birthday. After a very major car accident over 20 years ago I am a very cautious driver, my husband often calls me a “grandma driver”…LOL! I’m especially cautious when driving through parking lots of busy shopping areas and I ALWAYS stop anywhere in parking lots where stop signs have been put, with NO exceptions!

As I was approaching the stop sign in front of the Kroger store I seen a woman coming out of the store. While I could have easily stopped at the sign and then gone through before she even entered the cross way, I took the extra time and waited for her to cross. After she walked through I looked and then looked again and there was no one getting ready to walk across the cross way, so I started to move on. After I got past the stop sign a “man” and woman came out from behind a parked car and started freaking out, basically trying to tell me that I hadn’t stopped. Now I know I stopped and so did my mom and daughter, so I yelled through the window “I did stop, back there where the stop sign was, not up here where you are” and started to drive away. As I drove away, I noticed that this “man”, who was easily in his mid 50’s and very nicely dressed, thought it would be perfectly acceptable to flip the bird to a car full of women.

I’ll admit that I’ve flipped the bird to my fair share of people in my life time, sometimes with reason, and sometimes without. But I’ve NEVER flipped the bird in a situation that would deem it totally inappropriate or when I know that I’m the one at fault. But there is just something that makes my blood BOIL about a well dressed grown man who feels it’s perfectly acceptable to try and intimidate a car full of women when HE was the one that was in the wrong. If I had done something wrong, I’d have gladly admitted it, but I am 100% positive that if there had been a police officer who watched the whole situation, even he’d have agreed that I did everything 100% legally.

So, do you want to know what I did when he did that? I stopped the car, put it in park, took off my seat belt and got out of the car. I then looked at this joke of a “man” and proceeded to tell him what an impressive “man” he was for doing what he did to a car load of women, and that I’m sure his wife was very proud to say he was hers. Should I have kept my mouth shut and just drove on? Probably, but I’m sorry, pathetic excuses for human beings who do stuff like that give me every right to tell them exactly how pathetic they are!

I’m SOOOOOOO glad my husband is a decent and respectful MAN who would never be so disrespectful to treat women or any other person like that! I should know, he’s put up with me for over 16 years now…LOL!