Look no further than your nearest store parking lot for proof that people are brought to the brink of insanity by the thought that they might get wet from the insidious carpet bombing of an overhead rain cloud
Sadly I needed to make a run to a store during such a mini-apocalypse and glimpsed the pure anarchy that was a grocery store parking lot. The fire lane was full of idling and parked cars whose occupants clearly would have melted like the Wicked Witch of the West if exposed to water. Sadly they may have been the sanest of the crazies as I like to hope they retained enough intelligence to reason the fire lane is less likely to be used when its raining.
Just up the crazy list are those who are willing to sit for hours to get a close spot if need be despite the perfectly good spot just 30 feet away. I am sure those extra 5 seconds you saved will keep your marshmallow skin from dissolving
Next up are the pedestrians who dart out in front of cars like the devil herself will snatch them up if they don't make it to the cover of a roof as quickly as possible and without regard to those around them. "I don't care that your 5,000lbs car might hit me and break something important in my body - I'm getting wet!"
Close to the top of the scale are the cart users whose blatant disregard for any other member of humanity is astounding. Cart corrals go empty as even those parked right next to them are so energy sapped by the rain that they can't muster up the strength to push something on wheels 2 feet. Instead they laugh and watch civilization burn around them as carts take up those precious close parking spots making even more people park along curbs and wait even longer for the remaining spots
Sadly I saw a new low when it came to the cart fuckers today. A man who had just finished loading two carts worth of provisions into his SUV shoved the two carts together and rolled them into the middle of a handicapped parking spot and left them there!
I thought this was the worst, most despicable thing I would see but humanity had another surprise for me. While still marveling at how terrible a person the last guy was I saw a lady in a handicapped spot with a handicap license plate shove her cart into the middle of the handicapped spot next to her! If thats not 'dog eat dog' I don't know what is.
Oddly enough I parked at one of the many open spots farther out, walked to the door, put my cart in the cart corral when I was done and seemed to have lived to post this TL;DR post. Why, after 5 minutes I left there was no sign I had even been out in the rain. I considered asking one of The Crazed why they feared the rain so much but decided it was not worth risking my life to cause any sort of delay where they might get wet
TL;DR
-People be crazy when it be rainin
Sadly I needed to make a run to a store during such a mini-apocalypse and glimpsed the pure anarchy that was a grocery store parking lot. The fire lane was full of idling and parked cars whose occupants clearly would have melted like the Wicked Witch of the West if exposed to water. Sadly they may have been the sanest of the crazies as I like to hope they retained enough intelligence to reason the fire lane is less likely to be used when its raining.
Just up the crazy list are those who are willing to sit for hours to get a close spot if need be despite the perfectly good spot just 30 feet away. I am sure those extra 5 seconds you saved will keep your marshmallow skin from dissolving
Next up are the pedestrians who dart out in front of cars like the devil herself will snatch them up if they don't make it to the cover of a roof as quickly as possible and without regard to those around them. "I don't care that your 5,000lbs car might hit me and break something important in my body - I'm getting wet!"
Close to the top of the scale are the cart users whose blatant disregard for any other member of humanity is astounding. Cart corrals go empty as even those parked right next to them are so energy sapped by the rain that they can't muster up the strength to push something on wheels 2 feet. Instead they laugh and watch civilization burn around them as carts take up those precious close parking spots making even more people park along curbs and wait even longer for the remaining spots
Sadly I saw a new low when it came to the cart fuckers today. A man who had just finished loading two carts worth of provisions into his SUV shoved the two carts together and rolled them into the middle of a handicapped parking spot and left them there!
I thought this was the worst, most despicable thing I would see but humanity had another surprise for me. While still marveling at how terrible a person the last guy was I saw a lady in a handicapped spot with a handicap license plate shove her cart into the middle of the handicapped spot next to her! If thats not 'dog eat dog' I don't know what is.
Oddly enough I parked at one of the many open spots farther out, walked to the door, put my cart in the cart corral when I was done and seemed to have lived to post this TL;DR post. Why, after 5 minutes I left there was no sign I had even been out in the rain. I considered asking one of The Crazed why they feared the rain so much but decided it was not worth risking my life to cause any sort of delay where they might get wet
TL;DR
-People be crazy when it be rainin
Wait...don't you just buy a new car when that happens? I know I do
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