Seemingly
on a daily basis I come in contact with a certain kind of person that believes
they are the only person on Earth, so therefore they can do whatever they want.
Their actions have no effect on other people because they are alone on the
planet.
I was
at some yard sales this weekend and had another encounter with such a person. I
don’t know this man’s name so I will refer to him as “Asshole” for the
remainder of my tirade. My story begins now:
It
was an ethereal morning. Sunlight beamed down like a stairway to Heaven, birds
sang madrigals of love and prosperity. Lawns were verdant. Men stood hale and
hearty alongside their women whose skin carried the ruby blush of health and
vitality.
Having
finished my perusing at one yard sale I was walking to another just up the
street when the ground shook and the sky was choked with black smoke. I turned
just as a goliath pick-up truck passed by. Each wheel taller than a man, made
of rubber the color of night, the tread baring teeth covered in the flesh of
its victims.
This
truck was so large it blotted out the sun as it rumbled by. People in the
neighborhood cried out believing the world was ending, the Apocalypse upon us.
I glanced into the cab and saw a family of 6 living in the back seat.
Grandmother was cooking breakfast for the children while mother did laundry and
father mulched a grove of Larch trees planted in the truck bed.
The
next yard sale was set up in the home’s driveway. It turned out that the
Asshole driving the 2017 Ford Overcompensation was going to the same sale. His
tiny penis pulled his behemoth over to the side of the road and instead of
parking next to the house’s yard, Asshole parks directly in front of the
driveway, thus cutting off access to the yard sale from anyone else. To get
there myself I had to put on heavy boots, carve a walking staff and hike around
Asshole’s truck. Thankfully I made it ok, but my Sherpa wasn’t so lucky.
I
can’t stand this type of narcissism. There were dozens of people walking the
neighborhood from sale to sale, enjoying a nice summer day, but only one
magnificent Asshole driving his manhood and parking it front and center for all
to see. He might as well have walked pants-less into the middle of the road and
yelled “Hey everybody, look at my dick. Ain’t it purty?”
So
be careful. These zombies of self-involvement are everywhere and as far as they’re
concerned, everyone wants to see their junk.
