Investigator Martin Meder sent us this report:
I go to this pizzeria for lunch today. I park the car and start walking to
the door of the place, and this SUV starts to pull out of a parking space in
front of me. So, I stop. The SUV stops pulling out and this woman (in her
30s, I’d guess) leans her head out the window, looks me straight in the eye
and screams at the top of her lungs: “YOU HAVE A HELL OF A LOT OF NERVE
BEING 15 MINUTES LATE!” She is two feet from my face. Then, she stares me
down maybe another 30 seconds or so, and then she says in a normal tone in
her voice: “I didn’t mean you.” It gets stranger: I turn and look around,
and I am the only person in the parking lot. Then, she takes off, without
even bothering to open the door for her imaginary companion. She needs a
check-up from the neck up, if you ask me.
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