Hey, if your car is smoking, you need to pull over and take care of your business (TCB).
This is what this person tried to do…but she ran into some complications when a business owner decided to make her life difficult.
Read on to find out how they dealt with this major meanness…
“Years ago I had a 1986 Chevy Cavalier that my dad gave me, which was super nice of him… it wasn’t the best car, but it usually got me from point A to point B with no problem.
One day I was on my way to visit a friend, but I forgot that the Woodward Dream Cruise was happening… Side note: people who live near this event call it the “Woodward Nightmare Cruise.”
A never-ending line of classic cars drives up and down Woodward Avenue from Detroit to Birmingham, an annual mobile tribute to Detroit as the “Motor City”… and a great time if you like old cars, modified vehicles, or weirdness like motorized sofas or bar stools.
As you can imagine, it attracts quite a lot of people every year and leads to extreme traffic congestion!
Oh-oh-oh…
So I’m stuck in cruise control, and after maybe half an hour of stop-and-go traffic, my old car overheated… If I hadn’t gotten coolant, my engine would have been gone.
I’m a few blocks from a gas station, but traffic just isn’t moving, so I pulled into the first driveway and parked in front of a store I’d never noticed before.
As I drove in, steam was shooting out from under my hood!
Just as I get out of my car, a lady of about 60 with grey hair in a purple skirt comes running out of the store and shouts: “You are not allowed to park here, this is a parking lot for customers only!”
I looked at her and then at my car and she stammered: “You have to move your car or I’ll call the police!”
I had no intention of moving my car (driving it at all would have literally destroyed it), but immediately the inspiration for MC came to mind and I decided to enter this woman’s shop.
She was clearly disturbed by this action and ended up following me everywhere I went in her store, watching me like an angry hawk.
The shop turned out to be one of those new age shops for incense, candles, astrology… ok, whatever I can do with that.
Let’s take a look…
Partly to make my point, but mostly because my car needed to cool down before driving… I calmly examined EVERY SINGLE ITEM she was selling, watching my every move – she was following me the WHOLE TIME.
Looking back, I’m surprised she didn’t have a stroke.
Meanwhile, another employee who works here is getting really annoyed by how busy this little shop is all the time because she does all the actual work.
I felt bad for the lady who worked there, but I can practically guarantee that store lost a ton of money because of that lady’s insistence on harassing me…both through other people shoplifting (which I had no intention of doing) and people simply leaving because her checkout time was insanely long.
Time to go!
About three hours later, the crowds thinned out and I had literally seen everything there was to see in the place. At this point, I thought my car had cooled down enough to make the short drive to the nearby gas station.
I grabbed a $1 item I had spotted hours earlier—a tiny purple floating candle in the shape of a turtle—and paid for it.
She was still visibly angry and very rude as she typed in this single, insignificant and cheap item. As I left – receipt in hand of course – I smiled and said, “Wow, looks like I’m a paying customer, bye.”
The angry grey-haired lady didn’t really say anything, but she literally turned red in the face… also the second cashier was kind of laughing hysterically when I came out… oh, and my mom really liked the little turtle candle at the end.”
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