I'm a parking space stealer
It wasn't totally obvious, at the time, that this person was waiting for the spot that was about to be vacated. I didn't even notice the impending vacation. I was desperate for a parking spot on my lunch break and was circling through the tiny lot of the strip mall that contained my subway lunch target. I was starting to think of where else I could go for lunch and still make it back to work on time. Christmas shopping traffic was brutal. Suddenly there was a car in front of me. He was facing the wrong way. I just kind of looked at him and tried to figure out what he was doing. He looked back at me, exchanged some words with his passenger and then turned and continued to drive through the parking lot. As I pulled forward, some people appeared at their car and began the lengthy process of leaving their parking spot. "How lucky!" I thought. Then I thought "Oh, that person was waiting for this spot", but decided to move because they were blocking my progress through the parking lot. Crap. And then the same person was behind me in their SUV, and I was waiting to take the parking spot that was going to belong to them. I needed that spot though, I had to eat and get back to work. What to do. I decided to take the spot and rationalize my actions. I had to get back to work. They were probably out doing some random Christmas shopping, and they may have been old enough to be retired = time for them to look for another parking spot. The worst part: they had to wait behind me for about 3 minutes while I waited for the spot to open up. I was anticipating some possible road rage. They just sat there though. I pulled into the spot, they drove past me, and out of the lot. I'm a parking space stealer!