Clarification
Nothing in the above entry was hypothetical except for the transgressor choking on some Cheesy Poof equivalent. Unfortunately.
It takes me longer to back out of a parking spot when someone is vulturing for it because I don’t want to hit them or anything else. I’m far less nervous about backing out when the coast is entirely clear. When people wait behind me, other cars and people try to get around them; the waiting vehicle blocks my view, and I’m unwilling to take a chance that everybody is going to behave while I back out. If the vulture has to wait, they can take consolation in the fact that the spot is opening up eventually.
I really don’t like people today.
"slime-mold piece of positive osmotic excrement"
Ah, there’s nothing like the sight of a biological expletive in the morning…
Sorry for the impulse to have to write it though….
Sigh.
Gah! That’s one of my pet peeves, too. Sorry you had to deal with it that way.
I hear you on This parking loT Thing, The carTs, and so forTh. There are days I do noT have any sTrengTh To push a carT buT do my besT anyway. When I go ouTside wiTh my push carT, I usually waiT for my ride To meeT me aT The door if I am Too Tired To walk far – legs Tire easily aT Times depending on how much sleep I geT The nighT before buT I do my very besT and I am handicapped. WhaT bugs me, and I check The vehicles for a handicap sTicker on The license plaTe or The card. My rides who Take me To The grocery sTore always drop me off and Then park, and if The vehicle is close enough and i have The STrengTh, I will walk or waiT for vehicle To pick me up aT The door, and I always puT The push carT back inside or puT iT in The proper/desTinaTed area. I do noT have any paTience for people who do noT puT carTs away properly. GreeTers aT Wal-MarT know me by face and some know me by name like I do Them, and They know when I have difficulTy wiTh someThing and will help.
Oh, geez. We must have been separated at birth. Nothing sets my fritters on fire faster than the way people behave in parking lots.
I learned early on while working for an insurance company that the three things that are most likely to cause accidents in parking lots were cutting across the lot instead of using the lanes, pulling nose first through the parking spot ahead of you, and carts not properly returned.
Your line about lanes and signs just being a suggestion brings to mind a comment made when I pointed out to a friend of mine that the local grocery store lanes were all one way save the main one where you could go either way. She gave me a sideways look and asked me if I was kidding as she went down the wrong way to pull through a spot to get to another *bangs head*. She’s also one that can’t put a cart in the return.
Hubby said there’s also a study that shows that it takes someone much longer to start backing out of a parking space when someone else is waiting for it than when no one is waiting. These particular assh*les get a little power trip out of making you wait.
Did your car get wrecked, or were the specifics (dollars of damage, the way the shopping cart was parked) just hypothetical? I hope hypothetical!
There are days I do noT like people eiTher so I hear you.
Some days I can’t stand people, too.
thank you for writing this, you hit the nail on the head with all the points you make. lazy mofo’s out there, i park as far from the store as possible because i know the cheese poof eating crowd will waste a gallon of gas circling the lot for that prime spot. and still, i often return other people’s carts…
bad behavior seems to be the norm now.
i know what u mean. i feel exactly the same way about the human race at the minute (for different reasons, but still feel the same).
hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.