QUESTIONS FROM A ROUNDABOUT

Our local library has two parking lots. The one adjoining the entrance is a beautifully landscaped roundabout with traffic flowing to the left in order to access the 10 parking spaces. As I entered the lot several days ago, I saw one vacant parking place near the exit of the roundabout. This meant driving around to the left to the empty space. 

Just as I was 3 parking spaces away, another auto, a minivan, came from the right, pulled in front of me and grabbed the space. It was the same minivan that had tailgated me for several blocks on the main road.  It was obvious the driver had seen I was in line for the space. Ironically, it didn’t anger me but the minivan’s actions certainly triggered some questions:

• Was the fat middle-aged woman driving the minivan action's ethical?
• Was it moral?
• Was she fat because she’s a selfish narcissist?
• Why did she chance going the wrong way just for a parking space?
• Was she drunk, high on drugs?
• Had she become so absorbed in our self-serving culture, she didn’t know any better?

A library isn’t an emergency clinic, police station or a funeral home that might cause someone to be in such a hurry.  So what caused her to give up her self-respect in order to catch a few extra minutes? 

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