A little backstory: I park on residential roads about two blocks away from the hospital where I work. I don't make enough money here to drop anywhere from $50 to $80 on a parking lease, not when they're unreliable and free parking is so close by.

Normally, barring street cleaning, this works out fine for the most part. However, the streets are not necessarily as wide as one might like. Consequently, when traffic backs up a little at the intersection where I turn into the residential ares, occasionally a person lacking foresight can accidentally block the incoming traffic by stopping in the middle of the street.

In mornings, a car dealership compounds this problem. Their service department usually has a line of cars waiting in the morning to enter, before the place has even opened. Usually, these people are intelligent enough to keep on the right side of the road.

But not today.

Today a woman stopped in this line in the middle of the street. There were, and I don't exaggerate here, four feet in front of her and four feet to her right, when I and another car ended up stuck, unable to get past her.

She did not move. Would not move, despite ample room, until the car in front of her pulled forward and she could no longer stand the honking from the car behind me. And what was the reason she screamed at me through her window as I passed, her justification for blocking traffic and willfully causing grief?

"I was here first."