Here we go,
I have had a run of bad luck lately, today the printer took a crap. We do a lot of printing here so being with out one was not a option so off to Best Buy, with my printer mission complete I'm backing out and yes I look both ways and ck the back up camera next thing I know the back up alert is going off and my brakes are being applied I look in the mirror and I have a mirror full of white Ford f-150 now mind you I was 3/4 of the way out of the space clearly visible as I look into her vehicle she's flipping me off with one hand and you guessed it holding the cell phone to her ear with the other hand !! I rolled down the window and gave her a earful but I doubt she heard me with the damn phone on her ear !! she just moved on.
#2 I decided I was in the mood for some roasted chicken and Costco is just around the corner, what the hell was I thinking Costco on a Saturday that's a suicide mission !! the parking lot was filled with people who thought they were driving Abrams tanks willing to run you over for the closest parking space, I parked at the farthest corner and walked, what a novel Idea (I need the exercise ) I head straight for the golden brown savory yard bird, I pick the one with the latest time stamp turn around to grab a butcher bag and some little hussie snags my bird !!! lucky for me I find another one with a late time stamp and head for the register but you know it is Costco and I couldn't resist the free sample of peperoni bagel bites as I approach the kiosk for the last sample some little old blue haired Sun City raisin with a cane appears out of nowhere and snags my bagel bite from the kiosk !! that's it I'm done well maybe there's one more chance between me and the register, chocolate covered English
toffee !! I look around and have a clear path ! I go into stealth mode and approach, apparently this 68 year old fat guys stealth mode needs a tune up !! beat out again by a about 10 year old girl and her little brother !! screw it I didn't need it anyway !! I'm going home to eat my unhealthy Costco roasted chicken and a baked potato !! and my wife wonders why I sometimes don't want to leave the house.
There was some good luck the Printer installed with no problems, Rant over.

 

Dang Saturday was just the day for folks to display their anus. I was coming back from Home Depot and a fella in a Lexus rode my *** on a 30 MPH road. I just made it through a stop light and he got caught, but he came flying up on me before I got to the next intersection. He was so close I couldn’t see his headlights in my rearview mirror. Some people need to step back and chill.

 

These stories remind me oh how much I love living in the country.

 

x2 Truth

 

^^^ The number one reason rear end collisions occur. I always leave one car length for every ten miles per hour, but the guy behind is usually right on my ***.

 

Take your pick. 😁

 

When at a shopping center or mall, never get between a woman driver and a parking space!

When going shopping on crowded days or times, either be mentally prepared for the clusterf**k and aggressive people, or go another time.

My most pathetic experience at a crowded store was just before Christmas, and I was on line to pay in a crowded higher end supermarket on Long Island called Fairway (since out of business). The man in front of me was yelling at the teen cashier because the card reader wasn't working right, and I defended the cashier. I was told to "f**k off". I just laughed at him. I saw him a few minutes later in the parking lot with one of those white magnets on the tailgate of his SUV that says "Keep Christ in Christmas", and that is what I shouted at him as he drove past me.

 

People go way too fast in parking lots.

My daily driver is a 4 banger 5 speed light pickup with 280k on the clock. The clutch pedal is a little messed up. I want to make an important point here regarding stick shifts. Way back when, everyone knew how to drive one. Up till about ten years ago, maybe you didn't know how to drive one, but you knew about them, and knew not to ride someone's *** stopped at an uphill grade. I still had to develop the Stick Shift Rollback, which is rolling back a little as someone is coming up behind you; makes them stop early. But nowadays, the concept of a manual transmission does not even enter the average person's brain. You take off from a stoplight and shift, and someone slams on the brakes because he or she was right up your *** like it's a NASCAR road course and they hit the horn and make rude, incredulous gestures, like how dare you shifted a standard transmission normally. It's a weaponized combination of ignorance and arrogance that is going to get someone killed, and I am reminded of the quote about a savage civilization being more polite since you have to worry about getting your head bashed in if you run your mouth.

 

When I lived in the city, if someone was tailgating, I would watch for them to take their eyes off my car and would lightly press the brake pedal. Just enough to turn the brake lights on. This would generally cause the tailgater to slam on their brakes when they returned their eyes forward.

 

I watched a women drive her car in a parking lot for 10 minutes looking for a spot close to the store to park, are people that lazy to walk?

 

Oh yes. In high school I worked at a grocery store, and while out collecting carts I would see people circling the lot until a close parking spot opened. They could have already been in the store and shopping if they had pulled into even the furthest away spot.

 

When I was a kid, my parent's cars either didn't have A/C or it didn't work, and in summertime my mother would pass up a close spot for a further one that was in the shade.

A friend recently bought a 2017 Cadillac CT6 in very nice shape, and parks it far away from anyone else. That will stop once winter gets here, especially if it's snowing or the parking lot is icy.

 

My father does that, even with an AC car.

Speaking of ice, my work's lot is pitched so that you are either slightly uphill or downhill. The peaks and the troughs run down the rows parallel to the aisles. There is an aisle, a double row of parking spaces, then an aisle, and repeat. The trough or the peak runs right down the middle of the double row. My light pickup is so bad in the ice and snow that I put sand in the back, try to run good tires, and not do dumb things, so I park on a "peak row" and pull through to the second space so that I am ever so slightly downhill. It helps with an icy takeoff.

 

Some of these things are why I get gas at Costco at 6am, go to Home D or Lowe’s at 6am, hardware store at 7:30, parts store by 8am, grocery store at 6:30-7am. Self absorbed, self important A-holes haven’t begun stomping the earth yet, the thugs just went to bed and Dawn Of The Dead shopping zombies haven’t begun mindlessly and aimlessly roaming. When driving distances, especially to or through cities, I’m on the road no later than 4-5am. It helps me maintain a modicum of faith in mankind and works wonders for my disposition.

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