But tough as shoe leather. Best cooked low and slow.
mmm. Pulled long pork.
I don’t see evidence for them being addled, necessarily, but I also don’t see evidence that they were parked legally, either. I don’t see any evidence that the fat guy knew that they were elderly when he blocked their car in. If the fat guy was parked legally, then they shouldn’t have been blocked in, if they were also parked legally. There are a few places around here where the parking lots are not square, or where they are square and have certain areas which are not parking spots, and anyone who parks in those areas can get blocked in if someone else parks legally. Personally, I think it’s poor design, but a lot of people DO try to squeeze into those non-parking spots, because they tend to be near the door.
Now, the fat guy was totally wrong in wanting his meal or any portion of it comped. And he was a jerk to deliberately block someone in. But if he was parked legally, and the old couple wasn’t, I think that he should have been allowed to finish his main course, unless it’s the sort of thing that takes an hour or so to eat (something like shellfish, for instance).
Again, though, I have little sympathy for people who park illegally, no matter what their age. And I think that the OP was more outraged that someone DARED to be fat around him. Would the OP be this outraged if the person who’d blocked that car in was thin and elderly?
Maybe he was parked illegally. Maybe they both were. Who knows?
All we know is that somehow he was blocking them, he knew this, and he lied when asked about it. And he took the towing threat to be credible.
F.G. acted like he knew he was in the wrong somewhere.
Why were the old folks in such a tizzy to leave? Did they want to die at home and were afraid it could happen at any second?
I’m sure Matlock was going to be starting soon.
A person who doesn’t move his car when the owner of the establishment asks him to, and/or when other patrons cannot use their own car because his is in the way, is a grade-A asshole, and there is absolutely no excuse for his behavior. Even if the old people were neo-nazi seal-clubbers who declawed cats for fun in their spare time.
Around here, at least according to the police, if some asshole blocks you in by parking ‘illegally’ they can’t do a thing if it’s a private parking lot. Which, 99% of all lots are.
I got blocked in at my own wedding by some asshole (thankfully not someone attending my wedding). Picture this, new bride and groom in tux and wedding dress trying to make it to their hotel, and they can’t go anywhere.
Finally, enough of my own guests were able to move their cars that I could get out going the wrong way.
Big as in fat?
Well, the OP has courageously posted and vanished, so I guess we’re never going to get any more details of this alleged parking infraction.
But hey, we can always speculate as to whether the old guy or the fat guy left a shittier tip.
Well, I do sympathize somewhat. Imagine the pain of all those rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed.
They had to get home to watch Pardon My Zinger but they didn’t want to go by foot because that would mean they’d have to run. After all, sidewalk’s for regular walkin’. Not fancy walkin’.
Oh yeah? Well some of MY best friends are moldy oldies.
What would make this story perfect is if both the geezers and fatso were driving Dodge Vipers.
Head-on into each other.
No, what would make this story perfect would be Fatso being the son of the decrepit couple.
I support this pitting of Fat people…
I propose it would be perfecter if he turned out to be their daughter.
And the car that was blocked in? Not the geezers’ car…they were confused.
I’ve been thinking about it and I’m still not sure who I think was at fault here.
How fat did you say this guy was?
The only way this scenario makes sense to me is if the cars were parallel parked in a row and the FUCKING BIG FAT guy parked too close to the FUCKING SENILE OLD FART and he couldn’t get out. If the parking spaces were marked off, but were pretty wide, then maybe the FUCKING SENILE OLD FART squeezed in to a space that didn’t technically count as a parking space.
Hmmm…well when you put it that way, the guy does sound pretty fat.