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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Fuming

I am not one to take offense. I rarely get upset but today I am fuming. An incident happened about 1 1/2 hours ago and I am still hot to trot. Today we were a little late dropping Conner off for preschool (2 minutes) and there was no where to park near the door (there's a semi circle bus drop off that all us moms park for the 2 minutes to drop our kids off) so I parked in the staff parking. On the way out there was a woman in a suit standing there yelling at us. She came up to me who was pulling screaming Sam behind me (he wanted to stay and read a book) and literally yelled at me and told me that I could not park there, it was a bus loading zone and that the bus could not pull up if there were cars there and told me she would call the cops and I'd get a $50 ticket. I just smiled and said okay (I wasn't even parked there today) but inside I began to fume. How dare she yell at me when I wasn't even in the wrong (today that is). She could have just nicely asked us to not park there anymore but no she had to yell like I was a two year old. Never had a bus shown up at 1:30 pm so I didn't understand why her panties were in a wad. I left at 1:35 and I was the last to leave so there were no cars in the way and the bus didn't pull up until 1:45 (I stayed and waited since a bus had never come at that time before) I got home and called Neil. No sympathy. I got on the Lincoln Elementary School website and found out that she was the vice principal. Now I was appalled by her treatment and got to the point where I wanted to write her an email and tell her how rude she was and because of the first impression she gave me there was no way I was sending my child to that school. Neil told me to drop it. I realized I am harboring hard feelings so I prayed that my heart would be softened and I could drop this but still no. I'm hoping by venting that these feelings will soon leave. I know it's crazy to get so worked up over this. I know that we were all in the wrong and I admit that it's just the point that she yelled at us and was extremely rude that is upsetting. I am feeling better now. I guess Conner will be going to Lincoln. Not looking for sympathy, just needed to let my feelings out. She probably will call the police and have them sitting there to ticket us on Tuesday which will be a real pain because before since we were right by the door we all left the younger kids locked in the car (there were enough of us to coming and going to look after the ones in the car) for the 30 seconds it took to drop the preschooler off but now we'll have to park farther away and take all the kids out in the freezing, snowy cold. But I guess that's the right thing to do. Kills me.

1 comment:

Kristin said...

Yah, that was really rude of the vice principal. I am totally on your side, but I hope you are feeling better about it now. Can't wait to see you on Saturday!