The Hey all you beautiful people and welcome to the Glorious and the

mundane podcast I'm your host Christy Nacles welcome home my prayer is

that you find this a soft place to land today in a world that's a bit on edge.

I was reminded this past week just how on edge everyone is as we were pulling in a parking

space to eat at one of our local restaurants.

And my Ellie was driving and she's still learning how to park.

You know how it is?

Parking is just one of those things that takes time and practice and it can be really stressful when you feel like people are being impatient with you.

As we were pulling in, Ellie was having a really hard time partly because I drive an SUV and this parking lot felt

like it was made for clown cars.

So there's that.

And as I'm very calmly talking, Ellie, through how to back up a little and even out so this guy next

to us would be able to get into his car. Well that guy who was parked there next to us is

walking out of the restaurant and I kid you not that he doesn't waste

any time walking straight over to my car and banging on the side of it as hard as

he possibly could. Well as you can imagine this scares

Ellie out of her wits and she's done in while I had to get out of the car and have to

choose to not go to this guy's level of edginess and I had to calmly explain

to him as soon as I got out of the car that she's a teenager and that she's still learning

how to park.

And his wife looks at me and I thought maybe she was

going to understand and you know take up for me and be graceful and she shrugs her

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