There are four 'constants' in life. The first two are death and taxes. The other two are that on rainy days people love to pack into a shopping centre. Yeap, people certainly love cramming into shopping centres on rainy days. The fourth and final constant is that when people enter shopping centres they leave all sense of decency and manners at the door. Sometimes before the door... sometimes on the street entrance to the carpark.

Today I got beeped by an angry old lady in a car. Beeped. With a Horn. She was angry that I turned a corner in the carpark, and our cars were facing each other, and, after a 30 second mexican standoff (without mexicans) I drove around her. Now, one would naturally assume that I had driven the wrong way down the one way lane, and thus deserved the beep... But no. It was HER driving the wrong way down a one way lane... beeping at any other cars doing the right thing! She was about 5 seconds away from giving me the finger. And I was about 6 seconds away from *accidentally* opening my car door into the side of her lovely new lexus...

Inside the shops there was more push and shove than you'd normally see in a jumping castle, only it was parents and they weren't smiling. Which makes me wonder. Would shopping centres be more nicer places if they were made entirely of one giant jumping castle?

Then there were other random acts of rudeness. A mum, who obviously immigrated to this country and neglected to learn English (who does that?) wanted to buy some gold ribbon in a fabric store. Obviously unable to read the $5 per Metre sign on the ribbon, she wants to buy the whole lot for $5. The lady explains 2 times that the price is PER METRE LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN A FABRIC SHOP.

The non English learner mother makes the woman unroll the whole amount of ribbon, measure it and calculate the cost. Then she just turns around and says "Ok, don't worry about it", grabs her kids and leaves.

After all that ranting... my lesson learned from today?
Some people just need to go beep themselves...