I go to play tennis. There are 8 courts. All empty. I take court #8. The next group of people come and take court #7. Happens all the time. Sometimes I take a jug of water and dump it on the court next to me just so idiots don’t use it. I go shopping. Park my car a long distance away so as not to have to worry about being crowded by other cars. I come out and find a SUV crowding my car. There are dozens of empty spot all around my car and this idiot has to park right next to me. I eat lunch in my car. I eat lunch in a huge vacant parking lot. Others do too. Yet with all this empty space, someone will always park right next to me. I like to bowl. By myself. I go when almost no one is there. They give me lane #17. Five minutes after I start, a mom comes in with 3 pre-teen kids. Guess what lane the guy gives them? #18. What is wrong with people?
Face it man; People just love to be near you. You have an awesome power to attract others to bask in your glow.
This is why I moved to Alaska and live 1400 miles away from anybody!
On the day that you were born, the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true…
The parking lot thing drives me crazy. I drive a small car, and when backing out of a parking space it’s hard to see oncoming traffic around big vehicles. So I make a point of parking far away from the building where no one else is parked… and I swear that every time I get back to the car it’s flanked by an F150 and a Grand Cherokee, with 10 empty spaces on either side of them. :mad:
Maybe they feel that playing next to each other allows both sets of players to intercept/chase down each others’ errant shots more easily, making life better for everyone. Or maybe just that proximity facilitates human interaction, and they usually enjoy that. I get what you’re saying, but there is a school of thought that suggests public communal spaces aren’t designed for people to be isolated, but to be together. In any event, rendering the unused court next to yours unusable by dumping water on it just to assure your own privacy strikes me as a bit rude. Clearly you have a low tolerance for contact with strangers, and it may be congenital and beyond your control, in which case you have my sympathy–I’m way over on the “introvert” side of the spectrum myself. But there are also people whose natural instinct, as honestly come by as your own, are to seek out other people, or to take up less space and leave room for future arrivals, and they don’t know the pain they are causing you.
I HATE when people do this. For me, it’s when I’m using a public restroom and the next woman to enter chooses the stall RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO MINE, even if there are other stalls available. I’ve daydreamed about dipping a wad of toilet paper into the bowl and tossing it over the next stall onto her.
I’ve been told that in a men’s room, it’s considered bad form to take the urinal right next to the one another man is using, unless it’s the only one available.
I really don’t understand the parking thing. I’ll be in a completely empty parking lot but for one other car. I was there first, there’s nothing special about the spot; it’s not the closest to the building, it’s not in the shade, it’s not near the lot entrance/exit, and yet someone always parks right next to me. What the fuck?!
I like the water on the tennis court thing. Thats stacking the karmic odds in your favor certainly. Maybe if you carried a jug of water in your car, you could mark parking spaces the same way.
This is correct about urinals in the men’s room. I think it’s true for stalls too, but sometimes the stalls are not all the same – one might be cleaner, for example, and people will be more likely to choose that one.
I used to commute on a toll road. There were usually 2 toll booths open and almost without fail, all the cars would line up to go into one of them. I would change lanes upon approach and sail through the open booth. wtf?
Forget the water. Mark your territory: piss on the other court. While the intruders are playing. THAT’LL keep 'em away!
This happens camping too. You get to an empty campground with 8 spots and select yours. Next person that arrives takes the spot next to you. Every single time!
I’ve noticed on the road people have an alarming tendency to follow the car ahead without realizing that they’re doing so. The car ahead weaves to one side inside their lane, the car behind often follows suit. So it’s not surprising to me that they mindlessly follow each other into the same toll line either. People mindlessly tailgate all the time too.
I think other people park next to other cars in parking lots because it’s how they know how to park. Driver’s Ed taught me the trick of “turn into your stall when your head is lined up with the license plate of the car parked right before your stall”. Easy peasy, you hit the stall correctly every time. No car there and you have to visually measure the center of the stall prior to your chosen spot to get the same result. And that’s just too much work for people, I’m guessing.
The bowling lane - aren’t people directed which lane to take? I’d politely ask the counter manager when going to my lane to try and avoid putting people right next to me, in that case. You certainly pay enough for bowling to get a little consideration…
CG16? Is this your new sock?
Yes, with bowling they are directed by the counter guy, I just don’t know why the counter guy does put people right next to other people. And I have gone back on occasion to get another lane, but they usually give you an attitude. I also get the feeling that they people you leave notice and can’t understand why I don’t like their 7 year old running into my lane while I’m bowling.
I don’t bowl very often, but I would hate that too. I wonder if it’s an effort to keep a segment of the premises pristine to avoid having to clean the whole place when only 4 lanes are going to be used.
I have no scientific evidence for this, but I have a personal opinion backed by some observational data. My conclusion: It is passive aggressive behavior.
I drive 50-80 miles each way to work everyday, depending on my office location. I have a standard Crossover (CRV), my wife has a SMART car (yeah I know, let it go and read on).
So, I drive 5 times a week, times 48 weeks a year ( 4 vacation), so I would like to say I am a good sample size of 200+ instances (in morning and in the evening) a year.
Driving in my standard CRV, I have been passed maybe 10 times… in a year. (I drive a two lane country highway into the city, avoiding interstates like the plague).
When I drive my wife’s SMART car, in rare circumstances, I am passed 3-7 times a DAY, driving the exact same speed.
It is my opinion, and unscientific, folks see that little car and get some sort of crazy notion in their head they have to prove something. Men, women, it don’t freaking matter. They see that little car driving 62 in a 55 and lose their shit screaming cries of Valhalla and demanding blood for the blood God.
In my CRV, almost every single person behind me accepts 62 in a 55. In the SMART car, they truly become tailgating road warriors yelling nonsensical rants as they pass me flinging feces upon my windows.
So, my opinion…
There are a LOT of people who have repressed their violent and aggressive tendencies in our society and have chosen to express them in odd ways. Online trolls, aggressive driving, voting for Trump…
But, they are real and, in my humble opinion, it is not some random accident your small car gets surrounded by penile/vaginal enhancement vehicles.
I do this, just to mess with them. Some guys actually stop peeing, move to the next urinal, and resume.
I don’t stop peeing when someone commits this transgression. I simply look at them…
Pivoting my body when I look…
And continuing to pee.
They tend to catch on fast to the buffer urinal rule you evil maniac. 