Other than his obnoxious behaviour, I don’t think anyone can make an assumption on “Fat boy’s” motives until we know this.
To play DA (devil’s advocate not THE DA :D).
So he complained “loudly” to the waitress that the other car was parked illegally, so? How do we know he knew that PRIOR to his parking there, and didn’t just find it out when the waitress told him what the deal was?
That is, he may not have parked there to “teach them a lesson” but as someone else said, merely because it was a legal spot. Then, once he started hearing the announcements, he was already into a hot (expensive?) meal, and was of the mind of “they parked there illegally, I didn’t know until the announcements, they can just wait”, only THEN did he snark off to the waitress “well THEY were parked illegally” and so on.
That said, I’ll bet dollars to donuts, whichever way it really was, if he’d have been nice about it, instead of loud and disruptive, he probably would have gotten his meal comped and so on and so forth.
Fat or not, legally parked or not, he was a jerk and deserves derision just for that alone.
If I happened upon an open parking space that was adjacent to a vehicle in an umarked spot (where customers shouldn’t park) I’d probably assume it was the owner or the manager that parked there knowing full well they may be blocked in but didn’t care since they were going to be there well past close of business anyway. Then to be suddenly interupted from my dinner (not because it’s an emergency and the owner has to get one of his chefs to the hospital) but because a customer absent-mindedly parked in error… well… I’d be pretty upset too and not be the quickest one to jump up to move my car.
This reminded me of an incident that happened at work one time.
Our big boss walked in and he was really pissed. He had just got to work and as he walked in he saw that somebody had parked in the spot that was designated for emergency vehicles. He was saying about how that spot was for ambulances and such and nobody else was supposed to park there. Even he wasn’t supposed to park there. So he wanted us to find out whose car that was so he could take care of that person. So we had somebody start running the plates.
Now most of us were thinking two things: 1. “Somebody’s in trouble.” and 2. “I’m glad it’s not my car parked in that spot.”
But one guy apparently decided that the boss was not worked up enough. He felt that he needed to pour some gasoline on the fire. He started saying that everyone should know not to park there because there was a sign on the spot. And he told the boss he should call the police and have the car towed away and whoever had parked there should be facing disciplinary actions and have his parking privileges revoked etc etc etc.
A couple of minutes later we identified the owner of the car. Guess whose car it was?
Yes, seriously, the guy who had sat there telling the boss how terrible it was for somebody to use that parking spot was the guy who had parked there. And he said all of that even after he knew we were running the plates. If I had been the boss I have had his car towed away just for him being an such an idiot about it.
Oh yeah! Exactly, I mean, if Mr. and Mrs Ditzy McDottering are given a bye for not noticing they were parking illegally, why aren’t we giving Jabba the Hut reasonable doubt for not noticing how precisely he parked? Hmmmm? hmmmMMMMM?
The senile old codgers had parked illegally like every retarded ancient old fuckwit does everytime they try to park their training coffins.
The wobblebelly blocked them in, because he was driving a specially converted tractor and trailer that, due to its length, and his girth, was actually blocking every car in the parking lot.
The venerable old todgers were the first to be inconvienced by this, due to their urgent need to get out and complete their bucket list.
The Butterball didnt want to get up and move his trailer, because he had a tub of lard in the back, which he would be forced to eat if he went out there, and he didnt want to eat the lard until he had finished his starters.
The OP should have clarified all this before now, but didnt. Possibly because she is old, fat, and/or retarded.
I’ve lived through this with my grandmother and now my mother. Even if they suspect or know that they shouldn’t be driving any more, they feel that other people should make allowances for them. And the real fun starts when you get two Golden Age drivers, each counting on the other one to make allowances for them. I hear a lot about Generation Me, but in many cases, senior citizens can act just as entitled as any teen or twenty something.
Well, thats all well and good until your airliner crashes in some remote mountain range and the rescue team never comes and the cold sets in and the food runs out and…
You’re not wrong about this - I’ve seen it myself (like the old guy in Sears during a Christmas rush who wanted to go straight to the head of the cashier’s line because he didn’t want to wait).
Oh yes, I can remember my grandfather telling us he could see “well enough” to drive to the store, since he’s been going there for so many years. But he didn’t feel comfortable driving to someplace he hadn’t been to a lot.
I’m not sure the old folks’ car was parked illegally.
The person who said it was is the same one who blocked it in, didn’t want to move it, and most importantly didn’t step up when the announcement was made, lied when the tables were asked… until the towing came into play.
And whether they were parked illegally or not, I don’t see the evidence for them being “addled.” Young and allegedly competent people park illegally too, and sometimes by accident.
F.G. was a supreme jerk, and the old folks are just fine, as far as I can see. The fatness shouldn’t be here or there… but I’m not sure it’s a good idea for fat people to make a public scene about not wanting to step away from the dinner table.
