Read the passage and fill in the gaps with a proper word or word combination:
I hate parking lot sharks
As we left the
restaurant last night and I prepared to back out of our parking space, a woman
in a white SUV stopped behind our car, and then put her blinker on to indicate
that she intended to пустоtake my parking spot .
Unfortunately, she's stopped far enough forward that she's blocking my ability
to back out of the spot without being at risk of hitting or пустоscratching other vehicles parked on either side of me.
White SUV then
tried to back up, but it was Friday night in a busy shopping center, and there
are cars backed up behind her because she's пустоblocking traffic . I waited a moment to see if she was going to be
able to back up far enough, and when it was clear she was not going to, I got
out of my car, and walked to the back of my car, still several feet away from
her SUV but close enough she can hear me.
"Hi,"
I said, "I'd like to be able to give you this spot, but you're blocking me
in."
But she пустоhonked and pulled a face at
me and said, "I don't know if you've noticed, but I can't back up because
there are people behind me." So I shrugged and got back into my car.
I certainly
didn't want to reward her rude behavior by trying to back out and then giving
her my spot, so I took the keys out of the пустоignition and waited. She sat in her SUV for about a minute, then пустоgunned her horn. Unfortunately for her, I am well пустоgot my order wrong in waiting out пустоundesirable behavior , thanks to my
three dogs, so I continued to sit and wait. She sat for a few seconds more and
then пустоversed her gas as she moved on,
clearly annoyed. I likely avoided to пустоcause an accident on the busiest
parking and managed to get a situation under control.