When did it become acceptable to stop in a parking lot, holding those up behind you, while waiting for a spot?

[WyteWatt]

Originally posted by: daveymark
This is why it's better to have a second person in the vehicle with you. just tell them to go stand in the spot until you can make it over to the spot. No waiting necessary. IF some other idiot tells the person to move, have the person start drooling and making fists in the air while hopping on one foot.

:disgust:

This is another thing that I would not do if I was you. If some crazy person is driving and has a gun in there car you just won't know. You can avoid all of this. Its not hard.

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: imtim83

Originally posted by: daveymark
This is why it's better to have a second person in the vehicle with you. just tell them to go stand in the spot until you can make it over to the spot. No waiting necessary. IF some other idiot tells the person to move, have the person start drooling and making fists in the air while hopping on one foot.

:disgust:

This is another thing that I would not do if I was you. If some crazy person is driving and has a gun in there car you just won't know. You can avoid all of this. Its not hard.

sarcasm is lost on you.

 

[WyteWatt]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mcvickj

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mcvickj
Hmm...I don't see the problem with waiting for a spot. I've done it in the past. I won't sit there and wait for someone to load their car but if I see the person getting in I will wait.

It sounds like you have some road rage issues that you need to work on. Most of the time when a situation calls for a honk of the horn I don't think about it until after the fact. I guess I'm just to laid back to care. /shrug

Do you do it when there's other cars behind you?

Yes. I would say half of the time the car in question is already in reverse. So it is win/win for both. He gets to leave and I get his spot.

I've ran into the same situation when trying to find a parking spot at work or at my apartment complex.

Then half the time you're part of the problem and not the solution.
When someone is stalking my spot, waiting for it when I haven't even started to load my car or anything, I move as slowly as possible.

nakedfrog the funny thing is I already knew this because I already know how people think. I knew someone was going to say that too.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Uhh, it's perfectly acceptable as long as you aren't sitting there for 5 mins waiting for someone to magically appear. I normally will stalk people and drive around and follow them to their cars to get their spot (I normally stalk the big chicks b/c I know that they aren't gonna be walking far). But normally, if I'm driving down an aisle and I see someone getting into the car, I stop and put on my blinker to signify that I'm taking that spot.

But you aren't making people wait, which was part of my threat title!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

es. I would say half of the time the car in question is already in reverse. So it is win/win for both. He gets to leave and I get his spot.

If the guy's reverse lights are on I'd let you go without a honk

I wouldn't do that if I was you because in todays world you are bound to have someone get out there car with a gun. Its just not smart sense you can avoid this.

I've been driving like this for more than a decade without issue. Very few people are going to get out of their car with a gun over something like that. Generally cutting people off or other things are what brings that on, not honking at them for being a dick, and in any case it's just a price I'll have to pay. Justice demands it, and I won't sit aside and let injustice prevail.

It probably only makes sense when spots are hard to come by, maybe long term parking at an airport or something. If by walking another 100ft you could find another spot, then that is just absurd.

Yeah, if there are basically no fvcking spots anywhere then I will give a little more slack.

When someone is stalking my spot, waiting for it when I haven't even started to load my car or anything, I move as slowly as possible.

God Bless you, frog. I have wanted to do that but am normally too busy to bother.

 

[mcvickj]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mcvickj

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mcvickj
Hmm...I don't see the problem with waiting for a spot. I've done it in the past. I won't sit there and wait for someone to load their car but if I see the person getting in I will wait.

It sounds like you have some road rage issues that you need to work on. Most of the time when a situation calls for a honk of the horn I don't think about it until after the fact. I guess I'm just to laid back to care. /shrug

Do you do it when there's other cars behind you?

Yes. I would say half of the time the car in question is already in reverse. So it is win/win for both. He gets to leave and I get his spot.

I've ran into the same situation when trying to find a parking spot at work or at my apartment complex.

Then half the time you're part of the problem and not the solution.
When someone is stalking my spot, waiting for it when I haven't even started to load my car or anything, I move as slowly as possible.

Read my original post. I said if I see someone that is loading their car I will go around and look for a different spot. But if they are just starting to enter their car I will wait for them.


EDIT: Does horn honking even work? I've had my license for the better part of 7 years and I can't think of any situation where honking the horn was necessary. Maybe I need to take a trip out to California or New York to see...well hear... this horn honking in action.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: mcvickj
Read my original post. I said if I see someone that is loading their car I will go around and look for a different spot. But if they are just starting to enter their car I will wait for them.

Yeah, the half the time that the reverse lights aren't already on you're part of the problem. The second part of my post wasn't directed towards you, just the stalkers in general.

 

[mcvickj]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mcvickj
Read my original post. I said if I see someone that is loading their car I will go around and look for a different spot. But if they are just starting to enter their car I will wait for them.

Yeah, the half the time that the reverse lights aren't already on you're part of the problem. The second part of my post wasn't directed towards you, just the stalkers in general.

Oh ok. Have a :beer: on me.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I see this all the time. Obviously i see it most at walmart, for two reasons: 1) Crowded & 2) It's more times than not a poor, lower-class, etiqutte-less person doing it. The worst part though is that so damn few people have a problem with it. I'm often the only person honking, even though I'm 2-3 cars back. I'll just lay that bitch on, and finally the person gets flustered and drives on, or those behind them clue into the fact that they can drive around (not always possible, since people often wait in the middle of the lane).

Also, people have a distinct problem with honking at somebody waiting for a gree light. If you don't go when it's green, that's fine, but you should expect to get honked at, and often times it's me, again, a few cars back honking, because other people sit there like zombies, too scared to honk.

It's worse where I live. People will stop in parking lots to carry on a conversation with someone they know that happens to be walking nearby when they drive through the parking lot. One time some jackass even stopped in the main road to talk to someone he knew walking along the roadside. Either that or he was asking if they wanted to buy drugs. At least in that case, a cop was right behind me, and he busted them.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: NFS4
I normally will stalk people and drive around and follow them to their cars to get their spot (I normally stalk the big chicks b/c I know that they aren't gonna be walking far).

LMAO :beer:

 

[SeminoleMarine]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
When did it become acceptable to stop in a parking lot, holding those up behind you, while waiting for a spot?

Did you just start driving yesterday? This has been going on forever.

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Also, people have a distinct problem with honking at somebody waiting for a green light. If you don't go when it's green, that's fine, but you should expect to get honked at, and often times it's me, again, a few cars back honking, because other people sit there like zombies, too scared to honk.

Are you the guy that lays on the horn the second it turns greens, as if all cars should be moving the second it changes? Also I don't know where you live, but here where I live and in other cities I have been to, people have a tendency to run red lights. So the hesitation after a light turns green could be due to the fact that the person ahead of you doesn't want to be involved in an accident.

You should give patience a try.

 

[NFS4]

n/m

 

[Kipper]

I'm glad you automatically associate bad etiquette with the "lower class." :disgust:

Edit: You ALL need to chill the hell out. It honestly will make little difference in 99.99% of the cases whether you get there two minutes late or five minutes late. You're still late.

 

[slightlyhuman]

mother fuvckers who sit in the right lane with their blinker on and don't turn until it's green even though they had time to go, yeah that really gets me going...

 

[slightlyhuman]

btw skoorb, i always park in the back.

reasons:

no dings on my doors
usually the further back = no buggies to hit my vehicle
gives me exercise
if there ever is a bomb in the store, my car is the furthest away and won't be damaged as much


ilu

 

[MetalMat]

October 15th, 1987 at 2:30 pm

 

[StageLeft]

Are you the guy that lays on the horn the second it turns greens, as if all cars should be moving the second it changes?

Not the second, but you have no more than 3 before my hand is touching my horn, and if you haven't moved by 4-5 you're going to get it. I can tell the difference between waiting to ensure nobody is running it (which takes a second or two) and sitting there stunned.

You should give patience a try.

People should realize that their actions affect others and hurry the hell up, because we have places to be.

Good gawd. Is 20-30 seconds gonna really hurt you THAT much as I wait for grandma to put it in reverse and back out of the spot and then for me to take that spot? I don't think so.

Yes, a little walk probably would do you well. Is 20-30 seconds bad? What about three minutes? Where's your cutoff? How can you condemn my lack of patience when your action is selfishly stealing my time? If you have so much time on your hands then it won't hurt you to drive around another one or fifty times. Do what you want, but don't infringe on my time.

Wait your flippin' turn like the rest of us minions.

That's what driving around is called doing: waiting until you come to a spot that's empty or has a car backing out of it, instead of holding other people up.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
I'm glad you automatically associate bad etiquette with the "lower class." :disgust:

Edit: You ALL need to chill the hell out. It honestly will make little difference in 99.99% of the cases whether you get there two minutes late or five minutes late. You're still late.

Nonetheless, it's my time, and if somebody hasn't asked for that 2-5 minutes of it, they should not assume that I want to give it to them, especially when it could all be solved with a couple of extra calories worth of walking on their part. The lower class comment was partly inflammatory facetiousness, and partly true.

mother fuvckers who sit in the right lane with their blinker on and don't turn until it's green even though they had time to go, yeah that really gets me going...

They never avoid my horn, and it blares with fury.

 

[huesmann]

The real problem is when those stopping fvckers stop in the middle of the driving area so you can't just zip around their lazy asses.

 

[rh71]

there's no problem doing it as long as there's enough room for cars behind to pass. The trick is to not go down aisles that have a lot of cars waiting... duh (that's my 2nd duh for today).

 

[platinumike]

lol at you all. I just drive right around um. Why should i be more patient? some of you live in rural areas, but if i wait behind that guy, ill be waiting an extra 10 mins.

 

[franksta]

Originally posted by: DP
btw skoorb, i always park in the back.

reasons:

no dings on my doors
usually the further back = no buggies to hit my vehicle
gives me exercise

Plus I don't have to worry about finding my car in the lot. It's always out at the end by itself or very few cars. If people are waiting for my spot for whatever reason in a non-full lot, I'll take my sweet time. I'm not about to rush on your behalf, trust me, you're not worth it.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: huesmann
The real problem is when those stopping fvckers stop in the middle of the driving area so you can't just zip around their lazy asses.

Yes, that's all I ask. I'm not sure why others here can't grasp that simplicity.

 

[knyghtbyte]

dunno about the US, but in the UK honking your horn is only to be done to warn of an imminent danger.....NOT to hurry people along.......if a police car goes by as you honk someone at the traffic lights who hasnt seen it go green and sped off you can be arrested for using your horn for the wrong reason.

so glad i dont drive......heheh

 

[YetioDoom]

I do it, but only when the person is getting in their car to leave. I pull over and put my blinker on so that non-idiots can go around me.

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
dunno about the US, but in the UK honking your horn is only to be done to warn of an imminent danger.....NOT to hurry people along.......if a police car goes by as you honk someone at the traffic lights who hasnt seen it go green and sped off you can be arrested for using your horn for the wrong reason.

so glad i dont drive......heheh

Is it okay if you bathe them in the glare of your high beams and stick your arm out the window and flip them the bird (or the UK double-finger equivalent)?