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Odd little occurrence at McDonalds this morning.
The Mickie D's is on top of a hill with a fairly sharp incline. Not fun for people who drive stick shifts like I do. As I pull into the front of the place, there's an older station wagon about 20 feet in front of me, just sitting there.
Along the right side of the lot are parking spaces. There's a guy about to back out of one of them.
The station wagon throws it in reverse and starts backing up - rather precariously close to my car. I honked my horn, just in case the guy didn't realize I was behind him.
Well, apparently that pissed him off because instead of waiting for the guy to pull out, he guns the station wagon and drives into the spot next to the guy pulling out. I swear he did 0 - 50 in about 40 feet.
Which begs the question, why not just take the spot next to the guy pulling out in the first place? The station wagon guy had a minute or two before the other guy pulled out anyway.
I didn't hang around to see what grumpy old fart would be giving me the stink eye... as luck would have it, the drivethrough was empty and I got right out of there with my hotcakes. Yum.
I'm sure the guy in the station wagon just assumed I was an impatient whippersnapper waiting for him to move, but I had no way of knowing if the driver was aware that I was behind him when he was backing up. And I didn't want the new car I've had for all of six months getting the front smashed in bby a clueless driver.
Signed,
A. Whippersnapper.
The Mickie D's is on top of a hill with a fairly sharp incline. Not fun for people who drive stick shifts like I do. As I pull into the front of the place, there's an older station wagon about 20 feet in front of me, just sitting there.
Along the right side of the lot are parking spaces. There's a guy about to back out of one of them.
The station wagon throws it in reverse and starts backing up - rather precariously close to my car. I honked my horn, just in case the guy didn't realize I was behind him.
Well, apparently that pissed him off because instead of waiting for the guy to pull out, he guns the station wagon and drives into the spot next to the guy pulling out. I swear he did 0 - 50 in about 40 feet.
Which begs the question, why not just take the spot next to the guy pulling out in the first place? The station wagon guy had a minute or two before the other guy pulled out anyway.
I didn't hang around to see what grumpy old fart would be giving me the stink eye... as luck would have it, the drivethrough was empty and I got right out of there with my hotcakes. Yum.
I'm sure the guy in the station wagon just assumed I was an impatient whippersnapper waiting for him to move, but I had no way of knowing if the driver was aware that I was behind him when he was backing up. And I didn't want the new car I've had for all of six months getting the front smashed in bby a clueless driver.
Signed,
A. Whippersnapper.
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