Shoppers behaving badly

So Chad and I made the mistake of trying to make a return at the mall on Saturday where we were trapped in the mall parking lot for an hour and half. Yes, you read right. It was like quicksand, you pulled in and suddenly realized that you couldn't get out. We passed the time and kept the hysteria at bay by photographing mall parkers behaving badly.

The first shot is every single car surrounding this spot parking over the yellow line, the second is a person who apparently just abandoned their vehicle in the middle of an aisle when they couldn't find a parking spot. Also witnessed but not photographed, someone parking horizontally across the first four spaces in an aisle and a woman in a full length fur coat and boots going into the kohl's. With a Bluetooth earpiece in. I have seriously never seen anyone look so ridiculous, until she used her cart to literally ram another woman out of the way of the doors.

At about forty minutes the time in the car became less about shitty mall parking (where are the urban planners when you need them) than about observing a grandiose a social experiment. Between the woman honking and giving Chad the finger because somehow he was the one person in the stopped dead traffic who should have been moving and seeing all the minivan Dvd players light up one by one you learn a little bit about who you are as a person. Chad and I listened to Christmas music, talked about whether or not we could afford a new car and were generally grateful to just be forced to do nothing. Okay, maybe a little irritated that it was in a mall parking lot, but mostly grateful. It may be a comment on our over-scheduled lives that any down-time is appreciated, but I choose to believe that Chad and I are made for each other and can be happy stuck together in a rental car in the middle of a mall parking lot.

Olivia, on the other hand, took one look at the angry mob out the window and decided a nap would be a good idea.