Pedestrians have the right of way...

[BookstoreEscapee]

...does not mean "walk down the middle of the lane at the top of the parking lot with your young child, while cars are waiting for you to cross, then meet up with the other two people in your party and proceed to walk four-across down the row where other people (meaning me) are trying to drive, to your car. MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!!

Also, I realize Sunday afternoon isn't exactly the best time to go to the grocery store, but seriously, I'm not invisible, am I? Why must people stop their carts directly next to someone else who is also stopped, thus completely blocking the aisle when other people are clearly trying to get down it? Not to mention the woman who had her four children strewn across every other aisle I tried to get down.

On the up side, cherries for 99 cents a pound (omnomnom) and I saw an adorable 3-month-old little girl at Starbucks on my way to the store. Yawning infants are too cute for words.

[Kittish]

On the up side, cherries for 99 cents a pound (omnomnom) and I saw an adorable 3-month-old little girl at Starbucks on my way to the store. Yawning infants are too cute for words.

This reminds me of one customer I had today. Imminent threadjack alert!

Customer had pumped gasoline and come in with (presumably) his 3 daughters (oldest girl was maybe 8, youngest was probaby about 5). He'd split the cash up between them and each girl handed me her packet in turn. I smiled and said 'thank you' to each of them and got various versions of 'you're welcome' back. The youngest then INSISTED on holding the door open for someone coming in as they were all leaving. It was too cute for words!

/threadjack

[LillFilly]

You're right. I HATE it when people walk in the middle of the parking lot rows; choose one side or the other! Or when they cross on a looonnnggg diagonal. Or stop in the middle of the crosswalk to check their phone. Grahhhaaa!!!!

[mikoyan29]

You're right. I HATE it when people walk in the middle of the parking lot rows; choose one side or the other! Or when they cross on a looonnnggg diagonal. Or stop in the middle of the crosswalk to check their phone. Grahhhaaa!!!!

Usually when they walk down the middle, they are about 3 or 4 abreast and talking to each other so they are oblivious to the car behind them.

What I hate is people that don't stop for people waiting to cross in a shopping lot. Oh well, they are in their nice dry car. It's even worse in a parking lot where they are actually supposed to stop (hash marks....STOP...etc).

[TeaHouseLackey]

Or even worse... there are a few stores around this area with parking lots that look like this:

< through way

| | | | | | | | < parking
=========== < walkway
| | | | | | | | < parking

< through way store->

| | | | | | | | < parking
=========== < walkway
| | | | | | | | < parking



Guess where 90% of the people walk when going back to their car?
Who am I kidding? The pedestrian walkways are rarely if ever used...
they all waddle smack in the middle of the through way, holding up traffic.

[LillFilly]

Wow!!! I love the idea of a pedestrian walkway. But you're right, nobody would ever use the things, not where I am.

[Cassandra]

...does not mean "walk down the middle of the lane at the top of the parking lot with your young child, while cars are waiting for you to cross, then meet up with the other two people in your party and proceed to walk four-across down the row where other people (meaning me) are trying to drive, to your car. MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!!

AAARRGGG!!!!! Were you going to a Wegman's in a large shopping center known for its f'd up parking lot? Because I ran (not literally) into the same idiots just yesterday. There is no reason for two large families to walk abreast when in a parking lot like that. Add an elderly lady in a Taurus that thought she was in Europe thus forcing me to the wrong side of the isle and almost into the one family of no less than 8 children. Oh yeah, I know how you feel on this one!

[Ellain]

Heck, I have some neighbors who think the middle of the street is the best place to stop and chat. Also kids who believe bicycles don't need to move out of a car's way. Really, its amazing that the death toll from accidents isn't higher in my town. We only lose about a dozen a year, half of them teens.

[raw456]

I love the ones that wait till your reversing out of your parking spot and chose that moment to walk behind your car, usually with a small child in tow that you cant see... then they have to gall to go off at you cause you nearly hit them. - Hey! How 'bout NOT putting yourself in the direct path of a ton of metal that will crush you like a bug!!!

[Seshat]

I'm disabled, and use either a motorised scooter or a best-friend-powered wheelchair.

No, I CAN'T stop on a dime! Don't stop in front of me or walk out without checking, I WILL bump into you and it WILL be YOUR FAULT!


AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

[lupo pazzesco]

hates hates hates people like that. They give other, concientious, rule following pedestrians (ME!) a bad name!

Grr.

[Rapscallion]

I'm disabled, and use either a motorised scooter or a best-friend-powered wheelchair.

No, I CAN'T stop on a dime! Don't stop in front of me or walk out without checking, I WILL bump into you and it WILL be YOUR FAULT!

Replace scooter with 'eighteen-tonne truck' and you get one of our drivers' favourite rants.

Rapscallion

[greensinestro]

...Why must people stop their carts directly next to someone else who is also stopped, thus completely blocking the aisle when other people are clearly trying to get down it? Not to mention the woman who had her four children strewn across every other aisle I tried to get down.

Or how about those that park their cart off to the right side of the aisle, then they stand to the left side of it to look for their box of Hamburger Helper, completely blocking the aisle? And, they don't move when they see you coming, just look at you as if to say "I was here first, and I claim this aisle in the name of sovereignty!"

[Primer]

Or how about those that park their cart off to the right side of the aisle, then they stand to the left side of it to look for their box of Hamburger Helper, completely blocking the aisle? And, they don't move when they see you coming, just look at you as if to say "I was here first, and I claim this aisle in the name of sovereignty!"

I triply hate this. And DH is just as guilty as everyone else. I'm constantly dragging him to the side and telling him to get out of other people's ways. It would be so much easier to do the shopping by myself, but he just loves to come along....follows me like a puppy dog.

[AriRashkae]

I triply hate this. And DH is just as guilty as everyone else. I'm constantly dragging him to the side and telling him to get out of other people's ways. It would be so much easier to do the shopping by myself, but he just loves to come along....follows me like a puppy dog.

Keep a rolled up newspaper or magazine with you when you go shopping.