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Years ago, I pulled into a Barnes & Noble parking lot. I pulled into the second spot from the end of the row. As I was pulling into the park, I saw a minivan hurtling down the row from the far end, but still at least 7-8 parks down the aisle from this park and with no turn signal on. I hadn't seen it until I was pulling into the park because I had come from the close end of the row and practically pulled straight into the park because the rows were angled. I guess she had seen the spot from the next row over and was trying to get to it. She stopped behind my car, honked and flipped me off. She had a young girl, probably 10-15 in the car with her. I was thinking to myself, "what a great role model."

I see lots people that act like asses in restaurants. Years ago, my MIL and her husband took us to a nice restaurant (nice ambiance, live piano, everyone dressed nice, etc...). They drank and got more and more obnoxious to the server as the night wore on, and the missus and I got more and more embarrassed. I think the bill came to $250-300 for the 4 of us, and they paid as it was their treat. I don't remember exactly, but I think they tipped something like $10-20. I was mortified as was my wife. When we went to the parking lot, I made some excuse to go back in and left another $40 on the table which was all of the cash that we had. I don't think we went out with them again for another 10-15 years.