19 January 2009
Paul Blart, Mall Cop
This afternoon I brought Katherine and her friend to see Marley and Me at Southdale Mall. I was running a little later than I wanted to, and it being MLK holiday the parking lot was packed. So I decided to drop Katherine and her friend off to get their tickets and snacks while William and I found a place to park. I drove down one of the aisles to the drop-off zone, and there's a mall security van stopped right in the middle of the aisle. I'm waiting for him to move and notice that he is shaking his head at me in his side view mirror. There does not appear to be any sort of situation going on so I'm starting to get confused. I tried to indicate that I would like to get around him and he gets out of the van. I roll down my window and he says, "There's no way you're going to triple park here." Dude. Wow. Not even sure where you got that from. So I said, "I'm just trying to drop them off for a movie." He then got back in the van and moved aside, but his attitude still reeked of smugness for having prevented a parking violation. It's rare that you run into someone that dense. I'm just glad he's only protecting Southdale and not my public safety.