At 2AM this morning I decide that I've had enough of laying around and that I will go for a ride to get some coffee. I don't sleep. If I get 3 or 5 hours a night that's lucky for me. Why I even bother to lay there tossing like that is beyond me. I wish I could be like most of the world and get a full 8 hours. I wonder what it would be like to be completely awake and aware, not to long for the fluff of my pillow.
Anywhoo, I get in my car, turn on my Sirius and I'm having a dandy of a time. All is right with the world. Until I drive back to my apartment and see....someone has parked in my parking spot.
See, where I live parking spots are a big deal. The management company only allows you one spot per unit. The other vehicle in the household is outta luck. So admittedly the visitor parking is always full. So what do the visitors do? They park any where they damn well feel like it. And tonight, they parked in my spot!
I was gone 15 minutes! The asphalt hadn't even gotten cold yet. So of course as I storm up to my door, my neighbor out for his nightly smoke just shakes his head. He knows how I feel. Or does he? I stand there shaking with RAGE. For what? I just parked illegally like he did not but 6 feet away. No big deal. I was still in my courtyard and didn't have to leave the property. But what was making me shake and tremble with rage and the desire to leave a nasty note on this offender's car? Anxiety.
Have you ever noticed that with anxiety, sometimes makes you feel as though the world is out to get you? Not in that 'I'm coming after you' way, but in the way that you feel like you can't catch a break. Anxiety makes you hyper-sensitive to everything in your surroundings. At first I took it as a personal offense that someone had the gall to park in MY spot. How dare they? blah and blah. Just as my inner rant really began to build up, my other neighbor's door opens up and their guest hops into the car and pulls out of my spot. Easy as pie. Why can't all of the annoyance's of life be that easily resolved? Well, they can. If we allow it to be.
Now that that's over with, what am I gonna do about that party later?
