Assaulted at Costco

Yep, That's right there was a chick fight in the Costco parking lot. JJ and I had been enjoying a perfectly lovely laid back Sunday and decided to head by Costco on our way home to grab a few items for the week ahead, seems harmless enough right?....WRONG! Costco on Sunday is like the day after Thanksgiving at the mall where we live and we knew parking would be an issue but that was fine we were in no rush. So we pull into the first parking lot (yes that's right there are three parking lots) and start to follow the maze of cars driving around the one idiot that's parked in the middle of the lane with the windows rolled down and obviously not planning on moving. That's fine, like I said lazy, no rush Sunday is the attitude we had. As we are getting ready to leave that parking lot since there is no parking we see a nice Costco employee flagging us down to take the employee of the month parking spot since she was not working that day which happens to be front door parking. Sweet we thought, how nice is this guy and what a convenient spot. We pull in, JJ get's out first and as I'm getting out I see this enraged frizzy half blond half hot pink 40 something year old woman come barrelling at my husband. She starts yelling "what the hell are you doing? we've been waiting for this spot for half an hour" Yep, you guessed it the woman in the car that had been parked 8 spots down in the middle of the lane is screaming at us. JJ as you all know is very calm and laid back by nature and he's looking at her like "what are you talking about?" The nice Costco employee informs her that he flagged us down to take this spot and she was in no way sitting there with blinker on waiting for it. At this point she's telling us "your messed up man, I mean geez" I tell her that we did not see her and that we had every right to take this spot. I'm then informed that she has a dog in the car and they've been waiting for this shady spot.....keep in mind we live in a state covered in trees and there are about 100 shady spots for her to take, maybe not front door but definitely shaded. I then tell her that it's our spot fair and square, that it's not my fault she has a dog with her and maybe in the future she should leave her dog at home in the shaded back yard or house when it's hot outside and she needs to run errands....This comment did not sit well with her. From here the crazy frizzy hair got about twice it's normal size, kind of like a cats tail when they get scared and she starts literally yelling at me about how I'm messed up and my karma will come back to bite me in the ass. I told JJ to let her have the spot as she's obviously a nut job and would probably key my car or slash my tires, she asks me if "I want throw down" right here in the parking lot? I tell her once again she's a crazy dog person and we drive away. In all my vast maturity I may have given her the one finger wave as we pulled away but JJ and I were both literally shaking at this point. The whole thing was so weird and so unexpected.

As far as karma goes we pulled into the next parking lot and got an even better spot...I like to think her "karma" can suck on that for a while :) Now that I look back on it the whole thing is pretty funny but after working in property management my patience for those kind of people is pretty much gone! The only real down side to this whole thing is we were so blown away by what happened that we forgot to get chicken, bread and I accidentally got dark chocolate m&ms instead of regular (by the way why does all the classic candy now have 10 variations on flavor?) and had to make two Costco trips this week...the second one being much less eventful. Anyway I hope none of you can relate to this story although Haley, I feel like you know exactly the kind of person I'm talking about as we shared our property management office. Thanks for letting me vent and remember always look both ways before taking a prime spot at Costco on a Sunday!