Ugh! And, it happened twice! And, no, it wasn't trying to find a parking space!
No, it was trying to get out of two different spaces because SOMEBODY PARKED BADLY CROOKED IN THEIR SPACE!! Ugh!! And, I'm not talking about a few inches--I'm talking about askew so much that the violating car's bumper was either on the parking space's line or over into the neighboring space!!
How hard is it to pull in straight? Does it really take that much more effort to back your vehicle back out, and pull back in--so that other folks won't have to? It seems to be asking an awful lot.
Case in point: what I'm talking about here happened in the same parking lot. The first time, I was pulling into a space. Now, I drive a long-bed truck, so it can be a little bit more work for me to park straight, but it's doable, and I did it. I stop the truck, and I start to get out. About then, a mid-size car turns into the space next to my driver's side--and stops with their back end about 8-inches from my front end--badly askew. Get the picture? And, this person didn't even notice--as this person rushed into the building evidently running late (so, leave five minutes earlier!) The second time was on my way out of said establishment, only this time, it was a vehicle on the passenger side of my truck that wouldn't park straight.
So, I decided to do a little counting on my way out of this parking lot. On the front row of parking spaces--and there are 25-spaces on that row, 16 of the vehicles parked there were askew. And, it appears that the perps go across a wide demographic, as four of those vehicles had wheelchair plachards--it seems that obliviousness is not just something that young people choose to do. And, I would guess that probably about half of those vehicles parked askew on that front row did so because of the initial vehicles that chose not to park straight.
So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make something that's the shape of a business card with the following saying on it: "I hope you don't screw like you park. You'd never get in!" I'll just put it under a windshield wiper.
Come to think of it, nah. I won't. The folks I'm talking about are probably so oblivious they wouldn't get it--or even see it.
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It's just another symptom of the self-absorption of our society. It's all about "me" and what "I" have to do is more important than being considerate of others. You see it everywhere, every day.
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