Dear Winifred; Dec 1

Advice (NOT good!) column

Warning; advice given is NOT politically correct!

     "Dear Winifred, I've just got to vent.  I went to the mall the other day, and it was packed.  I drove around and around looking for a free spot.  Finally, someone was leaving, so I waited patiently for them to back out so I could pull in.  Just as the person was finished backing out, a car came the other direction and pulled into MY spot.  I was so upset; I slammed my hand on the steering wheel in frustration.  I feel that it wasn't fair for someone to pull into the free parking spot, when I was clearly waiting for it.  How should I have handed the situation? Signed Left Out in the Cold."

     "Dear Left Out in the Cold, what are you, the nut-less wonder?  Maybe you should grow a pair?  What this fricking b*****d did was bullshit.  Here's my advice on how you should have handled the situation, instead of what you did; which is turn belly up and float downstream.  Wait until pecker-wood has gone inside the mall, grab your tire iron, or an aluminum baseball bat (I carry one everywhere I go; you never know when it may come in handy) and smash the person's windshield and maybe put a couple of dents in the hood, for good measure.  Maybe next time, they'll think twice about stealing someone else's parking spot.  I think this might send a more powerful message that slamming you hands on your steering wheel, don't you?  Winifred."

     "Dear Winifred, I'm a woman!"

     "Dear Left Out in the Cold; and your point is...?"

Reviews

[Marie]

I don't know if Winifred is right about the glass breaking and denting, but ertainly a woman can do it. My neighbor vented her anger on someone who took her parking spot (she has a handicapped brother) and she was taken to jail, and it's just lucky I was home and could keep her brother. Not that she did a very wise thing of course...

[Michael Stevens]

Thanks Marie, and I can see the frustration getting to Winifred's advice level; parking lot rage!

[A. H. Pinley]

So violent and for those that enjoy the contact sport known as BLACK FRIDAY you know how the atmosphere going to be before ever stepping out onto the field. Deal with it...

[Michael Stevens]

You wouldn't catch me with several hundred miles of a mall; well; figuratively, of course!

[Marie]

I went to the mall on Black Friday. It wasn't terrible.I knew whaat I waanted; it got it and left.