More Adventures with the Elderly

So if you have read any of my posts, you have come across the tale of my adventure on the bus with the elderly man who didn't care that I don't speak Swedish.  I walked away from that with the valuable lesson learned that old people just want to talk....and don't care if you speak their language.  A blanket moral, you might say, but I have yet another example that proves my theory.....

Today The Belle got to spend most of the morning at daycare without me (hallelujah!).  After baby girl and I enjoyed a quiet 3 hours at home, it was time to pick her back up.  So off we go.  As I am putting baby girl in her carseat, the tiniest Peugeot I have ever seen pulled into the parking lot.  It is full, I mean FULL, of elderly men and women.  I do not know how or why there were so many Q-Tips in there, but I digress.  Out of the passenger side pops an elderly lady who immediately makes a beeline for me.  My thoughts?  "Oh shit".  *sigh*

So Q-Tip #1 comes up to me and starts talking and talking and talking.  And she is talking VERY fast.  So, I ask her to repeat herself, because even though I don't speak Swedish, I understand quite a bit.  She repeats herself, but I am still pretty clueless.  I get the words "bil" (car), "här" (here), and "parkera" (park).  So I look at her and tell her (in Swedish) that I speak English only.  Sorry.  Does that deter her?  Um, no.  She keeps talking and talking and talking.  So I look at her and say (in English) "I am coming back"......with lots of sign language involved.  She seemed to understand.....so I thought.  She goes back over to the Peugeot clown car and starts talking again.....and I back out.  Only to have the clown car promptly pull into our parking spot.  WTF?

And let me mention that we rent our parking spot.....and also let me mention that there were probably 10 vacant spots in the parking lot that could've been used rather than ours.  And also let me mention that there is a BIG SIGN that says "Visitor Parking" as you pull in.  Um, it is in Swedish (BESÖK), but even I know what it says.  I would think that the Q-Tips, since at least one of them had a driver's license, would be able to read.  I know, that is crazy talk.....

So from now on I am going to pretend to be deaf with all elderly Swedish men and women.  But I bet they will keep on talking....