Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Gate Emplooyee
Thread: Gate Emplooyee
View Single Post
 
Old 12-12-2021, 09:00 AM
PennBF PennBF is offline
Soaring Eagle member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,111
Thanks: 0
Thanked 755 Times in 214 Posts
Default Simple Clarification

I dropped the Gate Card in the car and it fell between the seats which made it almost impossible to recover in a few minutes. I had lowered my window and asked the gate person to please open the gate as I had dropped my pass. He was standing in the door of the Gate house. As I asked him to open I moved a couple of feet forward believing he would open the gate. His response was a "smirk", shaking his head no and pointing to the box with the red button. This forced me to get out of the car and reach out and hit the red button and jump back in the car as the gate opened with cars waiting behind me. I was just returning from a round trip to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville after a rather short but emergency surgery of 2 hours. My first thought was to wish him the same pain he was giving to me and then realized that would make me no better than him. End of story and at time point maybe the end of that Gate employee's ability to bestow his anger on any more residents.