I Didn't Get Her Fired...

I am not a mean spirited person! I like to try to forgive and forget which is why someone might ask me about something I said a while ago and, I can't remember ever saying it! I can get angry about something and, soon enough...it will be behind me and forgotten!

So, to say that I was pissed is an understatement. However, I gave myself some time to realize that things could have been much worse and, I did not pick up the phone to get her fired.

Here is the story, morning glories!

As is the case with most people, I was in a nice healthy bundle of rush hour traffic last week on my way home from work. I was in the home stretch...literally. I was in the turning lane steadily moving towards my subdivision. Coming out of my subdivision were a few cars. I have to turn left to get into the entrance of my subdivision and there was a small line of cars preparing to turn left out of it as I made my approach. I was still a small distance away when one car turned in front of me to get out. Fine. I'll give him that. I wasn't close enough to have to slam on my breaks and he got away clean. But, right behind him was a pizza delivery girl who, apparently just assumed that because he could do it, she could. She was a mere 2 feet from getting side swiped by my vehicle! I was pissed! It is an important part of her job to be a good driver! It is an important part of her job to abide by the traffic laws! As I honked at her for her stupidity, she gave me this look like I was the one doing something wrong! Are you freaking kidding me? So, in the 3 minutes that it took me to get home I stewed in my own juices and was making mental notes of the time, her hair color and whatever pertinent information I could remember so that I could call her employer and make a nice complaint that would, at the very least, ban her from making deliveries and put her either at the cash register or in the kitchen for the rest of her employment.

In order to make my stop so as not to hit her, my purse and a few items that I had bought over my lunch hour went flying to the floor of my car with an alarming thud. Most of them were fragile!

So, upon arriving home, I decided to calm down a bit and see if anything was broken. If even one thing had broken, chipped or cracked, I was prepared to make a call to her employer. Fortunately for her, nothing broke. But, I was still steamed so, I decided to wait a while and see how I felt about it a little later. Do I really want to get this girl in trouble or possibly fired? Everyone makes mistakes in traffic and I have been one of them! I was still pissed as I truly believe that it is important for any delivery companies to hire competent drivers and, she was quite possibly, not a competent driver.

So, a half hour later, I was still pissed but, decided that she probably needs her job as much as anyone else and, while I would get great satisfaction from getting her in trouble for nearly causing me to wreck my 9 month old car, I just couldn't be that kind of a vindictive person!

So, I didn't get her fired! If she only knew, I wonder if she would make sure to be a little more attentive of simple driving laws!