Why I Like Dogs Better than People--Reason 225

So I'm driving along to pick up my daughter from school.  As I pull into the school complex, I am behind a woman, talking on her cell phone, weaving between the lanes.  At least she was going slow, slow enough that I had to reduce my speed to about 2 miles an hour.  But I didn't give it a thought.  I was just driving along, enjoying the day, looking forward to hearing all about my daughters day.

We pull up beside each other in the parent pickup line, waiting for our children.  She gets out of her car, comes to my window and tells ME, "You really shouldn't tailgate so close in this parking lot."

Well, if she thinks I was tailgating, she obviously doesn't know the meaning of the word.  I tried to keep a car's length between us, which was difficult given she was going 1.5 miles per hour in a 10 mile zone.  But whatever....

Now normally, I am a non-confrontational girl.  Normally I would say nothing, then come home to bitch to my husband.  But her telling me how to drive...well...that just flew all over me. 

I smiled very sweetly and told her that maybe she shouldn't talk on her cell phone while she was driving.  I could see that I had hit a nerve.  Hypocrite was written all over her face.  "Uh...well...at least I was using hands free," she muttered, getting back into her car.

"No you weren't, " I retorted, "I could see the phone in your hand and you weaving all over the road."

This shut her up.  She had nothing more to say to me, but I obviously pissed her off.  As the school Guidance Counselor loaded my daugher into the car, that......uh...I'll be nice....woman flipped me the bird before she drove away.  OMG!  In the school parking lot? With the guidance counselor standing right there??   Are you kidding me?  WTH?  Great example there.....What a Mom!!!
Just one more reason--the more I know people, the more I like dogs!