I’ve been waiting for my chance to submit something to you…I see things all the time, but there are so many - and, really, so many so trifling - that I’ve developed a “Teflon” attitude towards ill-bred behavior. But the scenario I’m about to describe took the cake!
I was visiting my relatives in Remsenberg and had to drive into Westhampton Beach to go to Waldbaum’s. (Does that qualify as the Hamptons? It did by name only when I was growning up…While Remsenberg, on the other hand, was much more like old-time Southampton.)
As I was waiting outside over Memorial Day weekend, an Escalade SUV came into Waldbaum’s and carefully parked diagonally in 2 spots, the drivers describing his, what he considered valid, reason for doing - so as not to get a scratch on his car.
Shortly thereafter a 90+ yr. old man drove into the lot and because there was no other place to park and because he could squeeze his car in beside the SUV, parked there. While the elderly gentleman was in the Waldbaum’s, the Escalade owners (renters? of SUV and “summer share?”) came out and “what the F***! Can you believe someone F*ing parked right here?? Slash his F*ing tires!!”
The driver actually slashed the older man’s tire, and left. Luckily, there was an off duty cop there, watching everything, and called a dispatcher. The police helped the man change his tire and the police caught the tire slashers.
As it turned out, the “people” in the Escalade had a bag of pot in their possession and one of them kicked it under the police car when they were caught. A witness saw the person do it, and so they were arrested for possession and for tire slashing.
But wait, as if all that’s not bad enough, there’s more likely to be on the way.
The woman in the Escalade was pregnant!!
God help us all. Summer is definitely here!
- PL
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