Parking lot customers

[Tria]

I had a woman do that to me once and I gave the side of her car the "New York Slap" making sure the underside of my class ring made good contact with the side of her car.

Is that the one usually accompanied by an Itallian accent yelling "'Ey! I'm walking here!"

[Primer]

This wasn't in a parking lot, but is it ok to mention the mack truck driver that claimed not to see me while I was sitting at a red light in a construction zone?

[Seanette]

I was using the crosswalk and wasn't wearing anything that would blend into the background, so there was no excuse for those two not to see me. The only thing I could come up with is that they were both on their cell phones at the time.

Happens frequently to me, even in the middle of the day. I get REALLY tired of the cell phone idiots and their belief that they are just SO important that they don't need to pay attention to where that couple of tons of metal they're "operating" is going, who or what is in their path, etc.

[Kitten in the box]

I had one time two teenage girls (or college) were yakking on thier cell phone while I was on the way to a service out. They came within INCHES of me and put on the breaks... I shot them a "I am gonna beat the living crap out of you 10x over" and the look they gave me back was one of pure shock. What I should have done was yell "OWWWW MY LEG!" that would have scared the shit out of them....even the customer I was helping suggested that but they looked like they were about to cry so I let it be,

[Worker-Intellectual]

I've had customers stare at me and give me dirty looks when I was doing carts... they must have been waiting for me to take all the carts out of the parking space... I did it slowly and then left one in there because there were too many to take in one trip

[AFpheonix]

I think my favorite one was in a lot outside a yuppy-lite store that I go to now and again to get nice, cheap clothes. Some stupid chick in a large SUV almost mowed over a gentleman who just looked at her and kept going. He didn't say a word, didn't gesture, nothing. She said "sorry", out the window.
Very normal thus far.
Then, she got mad that he didn't acknowledge her apology. she screamed out the window "I SAID, I'm SORRY!!", pulled her head back in the window, looked at her partner in shopping crime, and muttered something that looked like "bastard".

How dare you be indifferent to me when I almost kill you?

[ditchdj]

I dont understand why when people are in such a big-ass hurry to get somewhere then why do they drive in front of the store entrances where there are mobs of people moving back and forth???

[Kitten in the box]

I had one time my aunt was picking me up from work so I went to drop off my stuff in her car. we got out (she had my young cousin with her) and went back into the store to get a few items. This woman cuts us off and goes to park in her spot. Me and my aunt loudly exclaim this is NOT Daytona Raceway. In the store the woman keeps looking at me and me and my aunt loudly exclaim we shoudl have yelled in "pain" then she glared at me and i got mad and said "I hope she says something...I HOPE she comes over here!" said woman continues to glare and I glare back. My aunt tells me to calm down and asks me if she could get me in trouble... "NO, I reply loudly enough for the lady to hear. "She ain't gonna do nothing." the woman quickly leaves to go down a seperate asile.

[bean]

Some people don't 'park' their cars but just 'leave' them.
Then you have the people who like to stand behind your car and gossip. You walk past them, get in, fire it up, put it in reverse and turn around to look while you back out...and they are still there, totally oblivious.

I have absolutely NO problem laying on the horn when they do this. Plus, my car is a manual, so I can put it in reverse and let the brake lights go off and rev the engine without the car actually MOVING... if they're paying any attention whatsoever it usually scares the crap out of them.

People haul some serious butt in our parking lot - I've seen people going faster in our lot than on the 40 mph road in front of the store. If I yell slow down, they pull a tough guy act and get in my face.

Did I forget to mention my store is between a Starbucks and a donut shop? There's almost always a handful of cops (and even state troopers) within earshot who are less than amused by the tough guy act.

[basketseller]

Besides the aforementioned people parking illegally in handicapped spaces, I also can't stand the people (usually motorcycles) who park in the crosshatched area next to the handicapped spots. I mean, that area is there to give disabled people more room to get in and out of the car, use a ramp or lift, etc.

Also, people who seem to think that they don't have to stop at a stop sign when it's located in a parking lot.

Not to mention people who don't stop at stop signs that are at intersections without much traffic.

[ArenaBoy]

I actually saw a person run a stop sign, she was on her phone too. Why does that not surprise me?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I actually saw a person run a stop sign, she was on her phone too. Why does that not surprise me?

I can't apologize for my dingbat baby sister's behavior behind the wheel. She still can't comprehend why she's had 2 speeding tickets AND a wreck within a year and doesn't make the connection between those incidents and her cell phone.

Which is why I refuse to ride in the car with her anymore. Especially after last year when she turned the wrong way on a one-way street in downtown Wilmington