Not as nice as I thought I was.
I have always thought that I was a nice person. Not a perfect person. Not the prettiest or the smartest. But nice. I don’t hold grudges and try my best not to judge. I don’t care about your color, religion, sex or background.
I spent a good part of today thinking not nice things about perfect strangers. That bothers me a lot. I thought, and still do, that I had a legit reason for being upset. Now that the day is done I am really bummed out that I let it get to me.
If you have been reading my blog you know that we have been having a battle with the Mississippi River. We lost. Our community is under a lot of water.
We live in a small town with more small towns around us. There is one main road that goes right down the middle of these towns. We live on that road. It’s just a two lane highway but it is the life line of the area. As soon as you pass our house the road is closed. Flooded. Now this, as you can imagine, is a real inconvenience to all of us. On a normal non flooded day I can make a left out of my driveway and in a little less than a mile can be at our local gas station/mini store. Now, for you to go to the same gas station you have to make a right and drive a little more than 7 miles, if you don’t mind gravel roads. If you are like my husband and hate the flying rocks and dust, you can take a paved route of a little less than 13 miles.
The road has been closed for a couple of days. You have to drive around 3 different barricades to get to my house. A lot of city people have been coming down to see the water. They ease around the barricades and slowly drive down to where the water is. They stop and take pictures. Asking us if we are ok and tisk tisking the awful fate of the towns folk. Now the locals are a different matter. They aint gonna let no puddle of water slow them down. They come barreling around the barricade and come flying down the road. I’m sure most of them think that they can just drive through it. Well when they get down here and see that the “puddle” is several feet deep and probably at least a 1/4 mile long they whip into my driveway and turn around. Now first let me say that I don’t usually mind people turning around in my drive. BUT here’s the problem. For one, there is, right next to me a business with a nice big parking lot and double drive that they could easily turn around in. Then they would have to drive another 10 feet or so and I guess they figure why bother when I also have a nice big circle drive. Some of them are even nice enough to slow down first. My real issue was the people who didn’t even bother with the drive way but just pulled right up into the yard and turned around in my grass!!! So for a couple of hours this afternoon I was not a happy camper. I just stood out side and glared at people who where driving like idiots and dared another one to drive in my grass. I wanted to park our cars out at the end on my drive and block off both sides so people couldn’t turn around in it at all but hubby wouldn’t let me. My son the cop, and his friend happen to come by and I was ranting a raving about the people and what was going on. As my son walked outside we saw a truck had parked in my yard. The man was PEEING in my yard!! I was livid. My 10 yr old daughter had just gone into the house thank goodness. My son walked over to the guy and told him he was on private property and had to leave. They guy said he was just turning around. (in my grass??) My son says “looks to me like you were peeing.” They guy says well I had to go. My son whips open his badge and says “would you like to do it again?” LOL 
It almost made the whole thing worth it. hehehehe the guy jumps into his truck appoligizing all over hisself. I’m leaving I’m leaving. My son was grinning like an idiot when he turned back around to us.
So now that the day is done and i’m sitting here. Calm. I do think that I got madder than I should have. So maybe i’m not as nice as I thought. Or maybe I am. I didn’t put the nails in the drive way that I wanted to.
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I am so sorry! when you are already going through so much to have people be so disrespectful truly makes it harder to have grace: )
So glad that your son was able to send the pee-in man on his way!
Hope things get better for you and your family soon!
No you have every right to be pissed off, just because you are such a nice person doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get po’d if people do inconsiderate things. That is an understatment of what took place today. Say a prayer for you and your family as you make it though this stressful time. Remember this to o shall pass. I like what your son did though it does add a bit of a silver lining to the story.
AHHH…that sounds awful! I’m sorry you have to go through that.
You know what though…the fact that you think about it…and that you feel guilty for having “not nice” thoughts…makes you a nice person. yep
I added a picture of the “puddle” in my photos.
like thesarahjade said… if you were indeed ‘not nice’ you wouldn’t be feeling bad at all, they would be ‘normal’ thoughts!
Hello fellow Missourian! I feel so bad about what you are experiencing in Winfield!!! You are not a bad person at all….the fact that you are feeling bad shows you are a good person! Those who are doing that to you are inconsiderate and with everything you are going through right now, you have a right to be upset! Wishing you the very best!!!
Some people are just plain rude
I would have been really upset. I can’t stand when people cut right through my back yard. I want to charge a toll LOL!!
You are a good person. You are just frustrated and I wouldn’t blame you one bit.
That is horrible. No offer to help you clean up, no offer bringing you food or water. What is wrong with people? People in America are so self centered! Is there something I can do? Send you a package or something? Clothes? Toys? Tools?
We are lucky. We live in Grand Rapids MI, we had a ton of rain too and got some water in our basement but now its all ok…Those storms went pass us but I think how close it was to being us with all that rain. I can not imagine. A friend of ours lost everything in Ceder Rapids Iowa…yet her spirits are so high. Because her life was spared and her 9 year old daughter too. They were in an apartment complex on the bottom floor and at 6 am they came in and said pack 2 sets of clothes and your toileties leave the rest. She lost it all.
There must be a blessing coming through all of this! Its amazing and here you are encouraging newbies like me and still working on your goals.
Take Care…you have a friend in me!
Camille
Oh wow, I am sorry for what you are going through. I would have been just as mad as you, my temper gets the best of me sometimes. However, the story about your son and his badge, that does make it almost worth it! Hilarious! As a 911 dispatcher, I totally appreciate that part of the story, and seeing officers everyday of my life, I can imagine the grin on his face, which for me makes the story all that much better!