This morning I was making my daily trip up Metcalfe St. when a bit of a fender-bender occurred, about 4 car-lengths ahead of me in the middle lane. Not a problem, these things happen (although later, when I would pass the two cars, there was no obvious damage and the two women involved seemed to be more concerned with nitpicking each other, but that's another story).
Needless to say, with the middle lane blocked, and the left lane full of traffic, those of us in the middle lane decided to change lanes right to go around the accident.
Except that the retarded monkey in front of me decides that it would be a good place to just pull over and park his fucking car! There are parking spaces along Metcalfe, it's true, but seeing an accident block the road 15m in front of his car, this asshole decides to pull over AND BLOCK THE REST OF THE ROAD!
It's rare that I roll down the window and explain my displeasure in a direct and personal manner, but this situation warranted the direct approach. The guy came over to my car to explain how it's ok to park here now, and I did my best to explain that it wasn't the fucking point... there was no convincing him - despite the traffic queueing up in my rear-view that he just blocked one of the primary arterial roads, already reduced from the accident that he can see just three car-lengths away. Not to mention leaving me, personally stranded up behind a parked car in heavy traffic unable to move.
How could this situation have been resolved? Well, if this dickhead really needed to park at that corner, I don't know... maybe he could have pulled in to the HUGE PARKING LOT a mere 5 metres from his curbside spot.
To his semi-credit, and the reason why I did not smite him in righteous anger is that he did offer to drive around the block. It was really too late at that point, but I think he finally got the message.
My thanks go out to the person behind me who saw me school this asshole and continued to block the traffic in the middle lane so I could wedge back in to the middle lane, drive around numbnuts, and then change lanes right to weave around the accident and get on my way.
Usually for this type of article I'd post the tosser's licence plate here, but I was so angry I forgot to note it down. Oh well. If you read this, you'll know who you are.
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