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Dear obnoxious flea-brained twits fellow grocery shoppers:
Look, I get it. You want to find a parking place, and you'd like to be reasonably close to the store entrance. I totally understand that.
If you've stopped because there's a car about to back out of a parking space, as in their reverse lights are actually on? Great. Wait the fifteen seconds it takes for them to back out so you can get their spot. It's not that big an inconvenience for the rest of us.
If you're stopped because you're waiting for someone to finish loading their groceries into the car (and possibly go put their cart away and then load up their kids)? Fine, claim the spot, but for $DEITY's sake, LEAVE SOME ROOM FOR OTHER CARS TO GET AROUND YOU. Here's a hint: if there are three or more cars behind you waiting, and you keep them sitting for a minute or more because you have to claim this space and are blocking the entire row, you're being a jerk. If there's actually parking spots further back in the lot, you don't need this spot for mobility reasons, and you're blocking people from passing, you're an asswipe.
(This goes double for the people who do this in the Whole Foods parking lot. Congratulations; you just used up all your good-for-the-environment credit by making several cars idle and burn more gas.)
I'm trying to figure out whether this is just a Texas thing or whether it's a past-ten-years thing; I don't remember seeing this nearly so much 15-20 years ago.
(In other news, I found the housing lists in my computer bag, after I'd given up and recreated them. Thanks, Murphy!)
Look, I get it. You want to find a parking place, and you'd like to be reasonably close to the store entrance. I totally understand that.
If you've stopped because there's a car about to back out of a parking space, as in their reverse lights are actually on? Great. Wait the fifteen seconds it takes for them to back out so you can get their spot. It's not that big an inconvenience for the rest of us.
If you're stopped because you're waiting for someone to finish loading their groceries into the car (and possibly go put their cart away and then load up their kids)? Fine, claim the spot, but for $DEITY's sake, LEAVE SOME ROOM FOR OTHER CARS TO GET AROUND YOU. Here's a hint: if there are three or more cars behind you waiting, and you keep them sitting for a minute or more because you have to claim this space and are blocking the entire row, you're being a jerk. If there's actually parking spots further back in the lot, you don't need this spot for mobility reasons, and you're blocking people from passing, you're an asswipe.
(This goes double for the people who do this in the Whole Foods parking lot. Congratulations; you just used up all your good-for-the-environment credit by making several cars idle and burn more gas.)
I'm trying to figure out whether this is just a Texas thing or whether it's a past-ten-years thing; I don't remember seeing this nearly so much 15-20 years ago.
(In other news, I found the housing lists in my computer bag, after I'd given up and recreated them. Thanks, Murphy!)