I hate to call anyone a jerk. There's no getting around it... rude says one thing, but jerk sort of says it all while still keeping your language and integrity intact.
You deal with someone who has less consideration for mankind than you do every so often, I'm sure. Both in your personal life and in your professional life. It's unfortunate, but it's life. And how you deal with it – or them – says a lot about you and keeping your responses and actions/reactions controlled can mean the difference between success and failure.
I had a fun moment on date night with my wife last week. I dropped her off in front of her favorite women’s clothing store in Downtown Summerlin in Las Vegas and began my mission of searching for an impossible to find a parking spot to show off my awesome parallel parking skills. After losing out on four other spots that I noticed and tried not to run over texting shoppers to get to I finally located one and it was mine. Mine! Then the aggressive jerk behind me pulled as close to me as possible and waited trying to discourage me from backing into the spot. He didn’t know who he was dealing with. I waited, he waited. I put it in reverse and even backed up just enough so he noticed. He didn’t move. So I waited some more. He waited some more. Every vehicle behind him understood and left. Yet he stayed. I still had my reverse lights on. I even honked my horn a couple of times and politely waved him around. Still, he stayed. Finally, after about 5 minutes he got upset enough that he speed around me as fast as he could nearly clipping my vehicle in the process. Victorious, I took the parallel spot I had earned. Won actually. Yay for me...
You deal with someone who has less consideration for mankind than you do every so often, I'm sure. Both in your personal life and in your professional life. It's unfortunate, but it's life. And how you deal with it – or them – says a lot about you and keeping your responses and actions/reactions controlled can mean the difference between success and failure.
I had a fun moment on date night with my wife last week. I dropped her off in front of her favorite women’s clothing store in Downtown Summerlin in Las Vegas and began my mission of searching for an impossible to find a parking spot to show off my awesome parallel parking skills. After losing out on four other spots that I noticed and tried not to run over texting shoppers to get to I finally located one and it was mine. Mine! Then the aggressive jerk behind me pulled as close to me as possible and waited trying to discourage me from backing into the spot. He didn’t know who he was dealing with. I waited, he waited. I put it in reverse and even backed up just enough so he noticed. He didn’t move. So I waited some more. He waited some more. Every vehicle behind him understood and left. Yet he stayed. I still had my reverse lights on. I even honked my horn a couple of times and politely waved him around. Still, he stayed. Finally, after about 5 minutes he got upset enough that he speed around me as fast as he could nearly clipping my vehicle in the process. Victorious, I took the parallel spot I had earned. Won actually. Yay for me...
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