Friday, February 25, 2011

Audi in the driveway

Small story. Coming home from work yesterday, I got stuck behind a car in our ‘driveway’. (Our apartment complex has a single lane one-way ring road that runs around it). The car was an Audi sedan which means it most likely is an official’s car. (officials are allowed a $55k allowance for cars. Concidentally the Audi is priced at $54.9. That's not a joke and you see quite a few Audis around) The driver of the Audi parked in front of his apartment and started unpacking luggage. This is not uncommon to happen for a short bit, but he decided he was going to take his time helping his 25 year old son. He got everything out of the car, helped his son carry it to the apartment, slowly walked back to his car . . . so there is a lineup of 20 cars waiting for him and they are all honking away. The son seems to be a bit embarrassed as he waves apologetically to the waiting cars. The driver, completely oblivious to the crowd of cars, meanders about making sure he hasn't forgotten anything. The message was pretty clear: I’m important. You are not. You can wait until I am ready to move my car which I will do in my own sweet time. It just felt like somebody was missing a little accountability in their life.

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