Lady, what were you doing?

[LillFilly]

I was driving down a row of cars in a parking lot today. I saw a car coming the opposite way, in the middle of the two lanes. I was over as far as I could be to my right, and slowed to a stop as the other car kept coming, still in the middle. The other car stopped, still in the middle of the lanes, and flashed its brights at me; I wasn't waiting for a spot, wasn't turning, just waiting for them to get onto their side of the road. I managed to pull further over where there was a clump of empty parking spaces and the car, and lady driver, just proceeded past me, still straddling the lanes.

Sigh.

[notalwaysright]

The other car stopped, still in the middle of the lanes, and flashed its brights at me; I wasn't waiting for a spot, wasn't turning, just waiting for them to get onto their side of the road. I managed to pull further over where there was a clump of empty parking spaces and the car, and lady driver, just proceeded past me, still straddling the lanes.

Sigh.

People are idiots. I have such a hard time in situations like this. In the past I have both moved, and refused to move. Depends on my mood. If I had come across this today, I really think I would have honked and gestured. It was that kind of day. I also used to have a car that screamed "young girl driver!" and I swear people moved MUCH more than they do now that I drive a bland midsized commuter.

[shanarocks]

And it makes it all the better when said bad driver think they are the one who is right.

[HawaiianShirts]

I was driving down a row of cars in a parking lot today. I saw a car coming the opposite way, in the middle of the two lanes. I was over as far as I could be to my right, and slowed to a stop as the other car kept coming, still in the middle. The other car stopped, still in the middle of the lanes, and flashed its brights at me...

There was a similar story in some magazine (RD, I think) a few years back. Pickup truck going the wrong way down a one-way parking lot lane approaches a small sedan going the right way. Both stop. Pickup driver leans out and yells, "I don't back up for idiots!" Other driver moves out of the way and, as the pickup rumbles past, yells back, "That's okay; I do."

[katzklaw]

i, by necessity, tend to drive large vehicles (need something beefy to haul a trailer), current one is a 1978 F-250 super cab longbed. thing looks like a dang tank. oddly, i don't have much trouble with people staying in my way

[wolfie]

i, by necessity, tend to drive large vehicles (need something beefy to haul a trailer), current one is a 1978 F-250 super cab longbed.

[Crocodile Dundee] That's not a large vehicle. As for being beefy to haul a trailer, even an empty trailer would crush your rear suspension - and you wouldn't even be able to get the trailer moving.[/Crocodile Dundee]