This happened to me a week or so ago. I considered telling the story like it happened today, but I've already told it to a bunch of people since it happened.
Just for background, the building where my office resides is home to many other companies. The biggest, and the owner of the facility, General Dynamics, has their own parking lot with special "reserved" parking spots for their upper managment. In order to get to the peon lot, you have to walk through this perpetual degradation of class. The lot is peppered with BMWs and high-end Mercedes SUVs. In the summer there's an occasional Lotus, and I've even seen a Lamborghini.
Anyway, I was leaving work the other day making a bee line for my mid-sized Japaneese car when I saw a seemingly frustrated woman out of the corner of my eye. It was a middle-aged woman, definitely a professional; dressed in heels, black skirt and a blazer. She was standing next to her VERY shiny, late model, blue Audi A6 with her key ring in her hand. She was frantically pressing the button on the remote, either being very lazy and trying to use her remote starter, or trying to unlock her door.
I see this as an opertunity to help out. I do try to do at least one good deed a day, even if it's only letting someone go in front of me while I'm driving. I approach her and inquire about the situation.
"Is everything alright?" At this time she's fumbling through her purse, which is the size of a small suitcase looking for something, presumably her cell phone.
"Oh, my car door unlocker is broken. Don't worry about it, I have AAA." At this point I almost loose it. Can she actually be serious?
So I ask her, "Can I give it a try?" She scoffs and hands me the key ring. Almost like she meant to say, "Like it even matters.. what can you do differently?"
I take the key rings and for good measure try to unlock the door with the remote unit. Like I had expected by the way the woman was acting, the battery seemed quite dead, or the unit itself was broken. Then I implemented the ultimate fix: I rummaged through her key ring until I found a key prominently marked with the four rings of the Audi symbol. Now this woman must have been important, because she had a shitload of keys on her ring. Anyway, I took the Audi key, insterted it into the doory and turned.
"Click." Door unlocked.
I handed the woman back her keys, who with an amazed and spiteful look on her face could say nothing to me but, "Oh." She then got in her car and drove off. Not even a thank you.
Well, this is for you, woman: :flip: (I really like that smiley..)
But with all that aside, I did get my giggles for the day out of it. Sometimes people's ignorance just blows my mind.
