Don’t stop bumping into her, you fool! How will she learn? Bump into her and push. You’re doing her *and *everyone else a huge service.
People who refuse to move when moving is in order need to be pushed out of the way. Hell, in my perfect world, we’d round them up and use them for target practice.
Yes, I don’t understand this one. They’ve been waiting at the bus stop, presumably expoecting that a bus will come along to pick them up. The bus arrives, they get on, and then they start looking for their bus pass or fare. It must be that this is the first time they’ve ever caught a bus, and it’s only at this point they realise that you need a ticket or bus pass. And that their money or pass is at the bottom of their handbag, so that they’ll need a few minutes to find it. That must be why they didn’t spend their time waiting at the bus stop getting ready for the bus to arrive.
My wife is bad at understanding such spatial relationships in general. It drives me nuts. She has gotten much better due to my haranguing. It’s incredibly important to not be that person IMO.
Thanks all for validating and expanding on my dork pit. I have similar grievances to boneheads who block grocery store lanes and building exits and train doors unnecessarily, not to mention the first person in the left turn lane taking his/her sweet time when the green arrow arrives such that the fourth car (me) is stuck waiting for the next light.
Dropping in to add a gripe about the people who MEANDER. You can’t get around these slowpokes because they don’t walk in a straight line. Pick a side of the aisle and STAY ON IT!!!
And the people who stick their cart in the middle of the grocery aisle while they goggle at the Campbell’s soup, or worse yet, park the cart on one side and stand on the other, with their hand on the cart, thus taking up the ENTIRE FUCKING AISLE. Nope, can’t imagine why anyone else would want to get through. Besides, they’re the only person in the universe, right?!
And don’t get me started on when I finally get an aisle that’s clear, because I do need to study an array of products, and some yutz and her friend (there are always two) proceed to come and stand in front of me and start a conversation about something else entirely. Or they might be looking at the same products, but the thought that (1) we could all stand back and be able to see them at the same time, and (2) I WAS HERE FIRST, YOU NIMRODS!!! never occurs to them.
Also, I think the words “Excuse me” have been deleted from most people’s brains.
I have a different twist on this. I work in a store and I’ve discovered that no matter how un-shoppable, how undesirable or useless the merchandise is or how dead the store is, if I have to work on a specific aisle then it’s a sure bet that two or three old ladies will be shuffling around, under and in front of me to see what I’m doing.
It could be an aisle of poop in an empty store. Someone WILL show up and do this.
And if there’s no arrow, they don’t comprehend that they should pull into the intersection and wait . . . guaranteeing that you’ll be stuck behind them forever.
And then there are the people who refuse to use a turning lane.
Your absolutely right. I wasn’t being clear enough. I always look ahead in the instance of packed gas stations, etc… The first left turner might not be able to move in quick enough to allow space for those behind, everyone is shuffling around. I was more referring to the people who take the left with plenty of room to spare then look for that parking space, all the while doing so from the entrance to the lot. I just assume their gonna keep going, you know. There is also the left turn through and intersection followed immediately by another left turn. I got stuck behind one today. Its a trap. I always follow behind, I don’t want to be the guy who sucks the time out of the green arrow(see quote below).
I move my cart to the far right when I’m grocery shopping. I’m not an impatient person by any means but it does get on my nerves when people keep their cart in the middle of the isle while picking out groceries.
Revolving dorks, idiots who block escalators and asshats who don’t understand how to ride a bus must really get to me, because I’m annoyed just reading this thread. I’ve been known to say, “Figure it out, people!” and “Be quick about it,” rather loudly to dumbshits who obstruct everyone else’s paths either out of malice or pure idiocy. Increasingly, since moving to the Midwest, people have found this to be rude? You want to know what’s rude? Being an asshole.
You know that classic moment of disillusionment when kids discover that their parents don’t know everything after all?
Well, I had a similar one, as an adult, when I realized…
My mom is a grocery store aisle blocker. :eek:
She’s not inconsiderate in general. If I say something, she’ll move the cart. She’s just oblivious to this one thing.
At least she’s not a revolving dork or an escalator stopper or a subway door clogger. Blocking a grocery store aisle is really annoying, but nobody’s going to get hurt if she does it. Unless someone throws a frozen pizza at her or something.
I was riding with a friend once and we ended up behind one of these. She sat behind the crosswalk through two lights waiting for there to be no oncoming traffic so she could make a left turn.
Which reminds me; I detest someone who pulls into the first gas pump when the second one is available. Then I have to back my truck into the available pump. And I’m not a particularly good backer.
I know that one. Another, yet I’ve been guilty of it in my unweildy company rig, are the people who opt to drive straight in the right lane making those who want to turn right wait through the light.
Oblivious. It’s really the word to remember this century.
Yes! This is what I was trying to get at in my follow-up post but I couldn’t come up with the words and then got called away. It’s annoying when someone is oblivious, but when their obliviousness* leads to inevitable phyical contact, it’s really in a league of its own.
To be fair to these people, the proscribed solution to this problem — namely, pulling out and sitting in the middle of the intersection like a middle-of-the-intersection-sitting dumbass, then proceeding after the light turns red — isn’t taught in Driver’s Ed very often, isn’t in any student driver’s handbook I’ve ever seen, and is fairly counterintuitive, quite possibly because it’s profoundly retarded.
I refused to believe this was actually legal the first time I saw someone do it, and though I turned out to be wrong about that, I still refuse to do it unless I have no other option. My solution: if I can’t find a light with a protected left (which is another rant altogether, have protected lefts you insipid sacks of civil-engineering-certified shit…but I digress), and traffic is heavy enough that it’s an issue, I don’t turn left there at all. The thirty seconds it takes to head to the nearest place I can pull a U-ie won’t kill me (and if it will, traffic light obedience is going to be the least of my concerns).
As for the other people, yeah, just run into 'em. When I’m dictator, there will be a workable practical definition of “The Way”, and anyone IN it will be expected to move or deal with the consequences of failing to do so. This will apply to cars as well, so the insurance lobbies’ll eat it up.
Double-post, but it’ll drive me nuts if I don’t. I have no idea what word I was looking for when I came up with “proscribed” in the above. I actually meant the opposite of that.
I blame caffeine, or lack thereof, whichever’s closer to true.
I teach this.
and I and completely agree with the Op here.
once while going to teach Drivers Ed the car in front of me stopped IN THE STREET and the driver was staring at the businesses in the strip mall where my class room was…so I honk because hes blocking about 8 cars, at which point he turns into the lot but STOPS ON TOP OF THE FUCKING SIDEWALK…another blast on the horn and he moves forward about 4 feet…it took me honking 6 times before I was able to move my car out of the road and another to get his dumbfuck ass out of my way so I could park my car.
You’re nicer than I am. Once I’m crowned Emperor for Life, the first edict I will issue is that “He/She was too stupid to live” will be an affirmative defense in these cases.
There’s a safe way to negotiate one of these turns: move straight forward into the intersection without turning your wheels to the left, keep them straight. That way, if some-one hits you from behind, your car is less likely to move into oncoming traffic. Secondly, make absolutely sure that oncoming traffic is either non-existent or has stopped. If necessary, wait until the oncoming traffic has stopped when the light turns red, then complete your turn. Yes, there are a few seconds between the lights turning red and the next set turning green - and what’s more it’s enough time for more than one turning car (yours and the person behind you whom you have also kindly allowed into the junction) to move through the intersection.
This is possibly safer than doing a U-turn and certainly safer than not moving into the intersection and having me behind you with a crowbar.