Tuesday, April 28, 2009

What Goes Around definitely Comes Around

I just have to share this story because it is the perfect example of that phrase, "what goes around comes around." So here what happened.

When Mike and I lived at an apartment complex in Rexburg we decided it was worth the extra ten dollars a month to have a reserved parking spot. Anyone who has lived in Rexburg knows that you don't want to have to park too far away from your place when it is -10 outside and blowing snow in your face. Ever so often we would come home and our spot would be taken by someone else, so we would write a kind but firm note and attach it to their car.
We didn't ever want to tow people because it is like $100 for making the silly mistake of parking in the wrong spot. Plus, Mike loathes the tow guy and would never want to get him more money than he deserves.

Well, after so many times of our parking spot being taken by someone we decided to write a pretty mean note to car owner. The note went something like this: _____please move your POS car_____Next time you do this we will tow you_____. You get the idea. It wasn't very friendly. (the blanks aren't swear words but are just more threatening words.)

Then we came out to our car and a returned note read: Dear Angry Car Owner, Sorry your life is so terrible that me parking in your spot ruined your day. I will make sure to not park in it again. from: the POS car.

After reading his note we felt pretty stupid for freaking out over such a silly thing. We then promised ourselves that the next time we saw his car we would write a letter of apology, which we did.

The car owner then wrote a sweet note back thanking us for apologizing to him. We felt so much better about ourselves and were able to sleep at night again.

So here is when the story goes full circle. Two days ago Mike's younger sister, Lauren, called and said, "Guess who I am hanging out with? (Then she handed the phone to her friend who said) The POS car."

Moral to this story? Yes!

6 comments:

Chelsey said...

haha that's funny! how did that even come up? it's funny that the connection was ever made. gotta love Rexburg and it's crazy tiny bubble.r

Breanne said...

haha! what goes around comes around! lesson learned! cute lil' story!

lindsey said...

haha so funny!

Darlene Swapp said...

so hilarious, Greg and would have done the same thing it's so easy to get caught up in those things. Thanks for the laugh and the reminder to be nice. Hope you guys are doing well!

Michelle said...

love your story Les! that happened to me and Steve all the time and we would get pissed too! we left quite a few notes too but the thing that is so annoying about it is it says in big white words RESERVED! do people not know how to read? i would never park in reserved parking it just common sense but people dont think and simply just dont care and thats what really pisses me off! Oh dear you have gotten me all riled up I would get so mad everytime it happened! glad i dont have to deal with that anymore!

Melly Mae said...

i love it.