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

[Zebo]

What's the hurry bro? That reminds me I got to go to Costco in an hour. No lines at all on tuesday morning, upper class shoppers, you know "cultists".

 

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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

Things must have changed. I learned my honking use from my dad, who's spent most of his life driving in England, and I remember my grandmother used to use it several damn times a trip. Everyone in England honks!

 

[PingSpike]

I usually just park in the back anyway.

 

[knyghtbyte]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

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

Things must have changed. I learned my honking use from my dad, who's spent most of his life driving in England, and I remember my grandmother used to use it several damn times a trip. Everyone in England honks!

i never said drivers here actually stick to that rule, just that its part of the highway code, however you wont see many drivers honking their horns if they see a police car in the vicnity...lol

 

This bothers you?

You're going to need a lot more patience when you raise your child.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: SampSon
This bothers you?

You're going to need a lot more patience when you raise your child.

Haha no kidding. He may even take up smoking to deal with it as high strung as he seems. Nah Probably legal druging is more his style: xanex, lithium etc

 

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Originally posted by: knyghtbyte

Originally posted by: Skoorb

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

Things must have changed. I learned my honking use from my dad, who's spent most of his life driving in England, and I remember my grandmother used to use it several damn times a trip. Everyone in England honks!

i never said drivers here actually stick to that rule, just that its part of the highway code, however you wont see many drivers honking their horns if they see a police car in the vicnity...lol

I assume that's the rule here, too, and I don't honk with police around.

This bothers you?

You're going to need a lot more patience when you raise your child.

It wouldn't bother you to essentially be held against your will for up to three minutes by a stranger who's too lazy to walk the width of five parking places?

Haha no kidding. He may even take up smoking to deal with it as high strung as he seems. Nah Probably legal druging is more his style: xanex, lithium etc

Unlikely, as my reliance on physical crutches is a shadow of most of the people I know I respect myself too much for it. Pride and arrogance can be quite motivating!

 

[CRXican]

the horn is to be used in emergency situations only, in order to avoid an accident

 

It wouldn't bother you to essentially be held against your will for up to three minutes by a stranger who's too lazy to walk the width of five parking places?

No, I drive so much that I have infinite patience while in my car.

Mabey it's different down there in the south. I've never seen anyone take 3 minutes for a parking spot. If they take over a minute I go around them.
I never run into this situation because I head directly for the back of the lot and park without any obstructions what so ever.

 

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Originally posted by: CRXican
the horn is to be used in emergency situations only, in order to avoid an accident

That's exactly the use here, because if I don't honk, and they don't move, I might ram them for good measure!

 

[Zebo]

Move to the country. City life is the pits. Anonymity fosters extreme uncivilized behavior.

look at the interweb.

 

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I've never seen anyone take 3 minutes for a parking spot. If they take over a minute I go around them.

That's the thing though, if I can go around them they can wait three hours for all I care. It's when they sit right in the middle of the lane, when they could have gone to the side that makes me wish blood to seep from all of their orifices.

 

[whistleclient]

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.

i suggest you don't move to Los Angeles. it's fine to do here, as there's so little parking in some places. I do it and I'm neither poor nor do I have bad eitquette. I'll try finding spots really far away, but sometimes you just have to wait for a spot. When I do it, I do try to pull as far to the right as possible. Your horn won't fluster me.

 

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Originally posted by: Zebo
Move to the country. City life is the pits. Anonymity fosters extreme uncivilized behavior.

Anonymity and crowding. I've no doubt people are far more polite in the country. If I give the impression I'm an uncourteous driver, that isn't the case. I let people out more than most people, I go to the left lane when they're coming on the on ramp, and I wave thanks if somebody lets me out. All I ask for is consideration in return.

When I do it, I do try to pull as far to the right as possible. Your horn won't fluster me.

And if oyu pull yourself to the side I won't honk in the first place.

 

[MeanMeosh]

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.

then you're a jackass.

 

Originally posted by: Skoorb

I've never seen anyone take 3 minutes for a parking spot. If they take over a minute I go around them.

That's the thing though, if I can go around them they can wait three hours for all I care. It's when they sit right in the middle of the lane, when they could have gone to the side that makes me wish blood to seep from all of their orifices.

You're way too high strung. Calm yourself, or move up north where you belong.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Move to the country. City life is the pits. Anonymity fosters extreme uncivilized behavior.

look at the interweb.

Too true. Look at P&N.

 

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Originally posted by: SampSon
You're way too high strung. Calm yourself, or move up north where you belong.

I've been thinking of moving to New York.

 

[fbrdphreak]

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It sounds like you have some road rage issues that you need to work on.
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Proudly so. All I want is a little efficiency and manners.

:thumbsup:

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: SampSon
You're way too high strung. Calm yourself, or move up north where you belong.

I've been thinking of moving to New York.

City or state?

 

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: SampSon
You're way too high strung. Calm yourself, or move up north where you belong.

I've been thinking of moving to New York.

Well if you're serious, I have all the lines on real estate.

Ps. taxes SUCK here.

 

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Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: SampSon
You're way too high strung. Calm yourself, or move up north where you belong.

I've been thinking of moving to New York.

City or state?

Whichever street sampson lives on

Ps. taxes SUCK here.

I used to live in Canada. Taxes shmaxes!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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.

then you're a jackass.

So what?

 

[Cleaner]

Originally posted by: ggnl
About the same time it became acceptable to weigh 300 lbs.

My wife was watching that red neck comedian the git-r-dun guy and I made an astute observation for her. Without looking at the tv I said 90% of the people in his audience are morbidly obese. I said this to see if my stereotype of walmart shopping 'average' americans was correct or not. Funny one liner. Camera pans audience. It was MORE than 90% obese. Americans are heffers like the livestock we eat.

 

[Injury]

Note to self: for a good time, if I'm ever driving around birmingham, drive like an old man if there is a Nissan following me.