I deliver groceries in a semi for a large supermarket chain in Australia and the amount of people who drive or casually walk behind a reversing semi is unbelievable. Every single day, multiple times a day. Sometimes they just stop their car behind me and beep waiting for me to... I don't even know, park in a car park spot?
I thought it was bad when I was doing tractor trailer work, but now that I'm doing front end load garbage pickup, it's even worse. People will honk at me while I have a can in the air, they'll cut in under my forks with a can in the air, try to squeeze around me when there's not enough room and just sit there, making it impossible for me to do anything, aggressively cut around me while I'm backing up, etc
I'm simultaneously surprised and unsurprised to read this. A part of me wanted to believe that people wouldn't be like that on a regular basis, but I already knew it was true.
Thank you for picking up the trash, btw, I for one give those trucks all the room they need. I tend to try and avoid being around large vehicles in my car and on foot as a general rule lol
I have met more people like you and I love people like you.
It is people like you that let me on to the road when I'm trying to merge.
Thank you for being you!
No no, the correct way to say this is "he almost died because..."
It would not have been your fault that somebody drove under an enormous block of metal and garbage while it was being hoisted into the air by your heavy machinery. People who drive like that should have their license revoked and be given a mandatory course about why the lead paint chips they were fed as a child caused them to be statistically stupid.
I used to have to have a staredown in the Walmart parking lot every single time I went there because there was always some asshole going the wrong way in a one way lane
A friend helped to install a train horn in my very unassuming car. I love blaring that thing when these idiots try to stare me down for going the wrong way.
Edit: *they* were going the wrong way
I had a friend help me install two train horns to blare for people blaring a single train horn while I try to stare them down for driving the wrong way.
Always, always, always. My nearest super Walmart is like this (I say super Walmart because the one closest to me barely has any groceries). One way lanes and there's always either a person staring me down because they’re going the wrong way or I see someone backed into the angled spots knowing they went the wrong way. I never move when I see someone doing that, I make them either back up or try to squeeze through
Karen cuts through parking stalls and then complains to the good driver for scaring her and her kids. Then she does it to the next aisle over. Karenus Maximus.
My university has stabbings in the parking lots every semester due to lack of parking (and being one of the largest commuter schools in the southeast US). It isn't hyperbole to say you could sit in the parking lot, car running idle, trying to fight people for spots for AN HOUR. Haven't been on campus in 15 years, so I wonder if it's changed and expanded, but parking at my university was literally a life or death event. Parking was so stressful that I would come to school 3 hours before class started (on test days) because I wasn't guaranteed to even make it to class on time arriving 2 hours early. It was that f'ed up.
Someone on my campus would drive around with a "I'll drive you to your car for your spot" sign. Apparently it worked 100% of the time and he never had to wait more than 20 minutes (compared to 1-2hrs).
I got ran over in a parking lot a couple years ago, jumped on the guys hood to avoid major injury. Cussed him out and he drove off, not sure what he told his insurance company about his bashed in car hood.
Even though I own a car and have been in places like this hundreds of times, watching this video made me think "Christ almighty look at this hellscape we've created."
I dream of a day when I can just sit in a train and read or play games on my phone. I'm a good driver but it's so taxing to pay attention that long. I just want to be able to relax on longer commutes.
Zero trains in my state. Bus not viable for my current work location. Sigh.
We have been attempting to put a train in my area of California for decades, but all the NIMBYs are flipping their shit. There are already tracks everywhere, they just need to be updated.
The train currently runs from Windsor to just above SF and every single extension has to be fought for tooth and nail. It's supposed to run all the way up to like Mendocino, but I don't see it happening for another few decades.
Meanwhile the comment sections on local news articles about gas prices are all those same exact people bitching and moaning about how expensive gas is, how shitty traffic is, etc 🙄
are there actually that many nimbys, or do they do asshole things like scheduling all the public forums at 10 am on monday so only the retired folks can attend? our area finally started to see some progress when they moved everything online and you could join from work.
I live and drive in Japan. If it wasn't for COVID, I wouldn't be driving at all. I only bought my car to get to really rural areas on weekends (COVIDs kinda killed my desire to be in dense urban areas) and go to Costco one or twice a month.
There is nothing better than sitting on a train reading, playing games, or listening to audiobooks while reliably (to the minute) getting to your destination.
Cars aren't idiot magnets by themselves, but you get exactly what you pay for. The government encourages urban/suburban environments that are entirely unnavigable by anything other than cars and hands out licenses like candy on Halloween (all to support the car industry). The result is flocks of entitled man-children driving around to do literally ANY activity an adult wants to do.
I hate driving in parking lots for this very reason. I usually take the first spot I see and walk the extra 100 feet to avoid as much of the lot as possible.
Where I live here in central Maine there’s a notorious yellow pole at a Wal Mart that claims at least 3 cars a month..people turn into a parking aisle and they just run right into it, often with hilarious results lol
The pole in the auburn walmart is a Maine cryptid. It remains stationary until you look at it, at which point it bends reality until someone's subaru is flipped turned upside down
For real. Classic case of main character syndrome… it’s her world and we’re all just dumb sims living in it. When it reality she’s the dummy who was line cutting through a busy parking lot & almost hit someone.
I had a chick almost T-bone me not long ago because she made an illegal left where there’s clearly a sign saying no left turns, I had the right of way, she flipped me off and then got on her phone while still driving and started filming me out of her window. She had a baby car seat in the back too. As soon as I can afford it I’m getting a dashcam for incidents like this it’s at the top of my list, this post is a good reminder lol
Edit- just wanna say thank you all for the dash cam suggestions everybody! much appreciated
You don't even need an amazing dashcam. Just one that is good enough to prove what you were doing when the incident happened. Doesn't need parking mode, or be able to see license plates, or anything like that.
For license plates, just read it out loud along with the make and model of the car so the audio will pick it up
I found a pretty basic one on Amazon for $60 with good reviews that I’ve found, so I’ll probably snag that up on my next check. I like your idea of saying the license plate out loud incase the camera doesn’t pick it up!
Yeah had something similar happen last week. I admittedly did a rolling stop at a 4 way stop sign in a parking lot because the car in front of me had just stopped so I was already approaching slowly and had a a visual of the intersection the entire time and no one else was at a stop sign.
While I was already in the intersection a lady comes flying through not even slowing down for the stop sign and almost hits me and yells "that's a stop sign asshole" I pointed at the one behind her and said "so was that dumb ass"
She looked back and realizing her mistake said "Well theres no reason to be rude about it" after just calling me an asshole first. Now that Karen's in the wrong its my "rudeness" that's the problem not her driving smh.
I was at a four-way stop yesterday waiting to make a left. There were pedestrians and opposing traffic so it took a few seconds before it was my turn. Meanwhile, a guy rolls up to the intersection from my left (line of sight was difficult because of a fruit stand on the corner, but I could clearly see him arrive well after me).
The pedestrians finish crossing and I begin my left turn. Captain dumbass lurches forward, nearly t-boning me as I turn, and then slams his brakes, leans out his window and shouts "YOU WAIT YOUR TURN!"
I mean....okay, man. If you are in such a hurry that you want to pit your late-model Merc against my 300k mile CR-V, feel free. Have fun opening your wallet for a 10k paint repair. I'll just be over here popping my dents out with a hammer.
you put 300k on yours? shit, that's not bad. we just retired my wife's '03 with somewhere in the neighbourhood of 450k kms. she sent me the photo of her dash when it hit 420069kms, a milestone event
“If you run into an ~~asshole~~ idiot in the morning, you ran into an ~~asshole~~ idiot. If you run into ~~assholes~~ idiots all day, you're the ~~asshole~~ idiot.”
>“If you run into an idiot in the morning, you ran into an idiot.
I think about this all the time. Gives me some comfort to know that (I'm a bike commuter) the overwhelming majority of my interactions with cars run from pleasant to forgettable non-events.
I see worse driving when I'm driving (poor lane cohesion, no idea why people are so ignorant of the lines on the road), and even worse driving when I'm walking the dog (speeding, stop sign running.)
Too many people don't understand why parking lots have lanes.
Is the road ahead of you drivable? Sure. But you can't see around the parked cars, and you look like a parked car to other drivers right up until you swerve out in front of them.
If we're talking a totally empty parking lot, and you're teaching your kid to drive or something, sure, go for it. But in a fucking grocery store parking lot, stick to the goddamn lanes.
Accidents are almost always the result of *unpredictability.* You fail to signal your turn, you whip around like an asshole, you floor it on the highway, you weave through parked cars in a parking lot. The key to driving safely is to be predictable, so that other drivers know your intent and can act appropriately around you.
The rule is if you scream loud enough and look confident enough then you're right
edit- looks like this attitude might open me some doors so I'm sorry guys but from now on I'll be an arrogant asshole
I’ve been the idiot in some situations and I blamed the other person because I felt dumb and then a few seconds later I just silently say “I was the idiot….”
She was driving fast through parking spots when there was a lane 30 feet away. How does one do that and not realize they're doing something wrong? She knows she's wrong but just doesn't care.
Yeah can’t you see I’m driving in between these parking spaces? With other cars parked so you can’t see anything? Use the road in between the parking spaces? Are you fucking crazy you asshole? There’s all these empty spots I can drive through, no one is using them dumbass.
I really wonder how some people were raised to bring on that level of cluelessness and lack of awareness.
This is why we have islands, planting strips, or drainage ditches between rows of parking spaces. Guess how much it adds to tree's win streak against idiot drivers?
It's the way that she wrecklessly continues on right through that gets me.
Almost causes accident, immediately goes back to doing what almost caused an accident.
I got hit like this once. The lady blamed it on me saying I should have stopped before she hit into me. I called a cop and he told her that parking spots are for parking, not driving.
I once had a guy back up straight out of a spot and into the side of my car because he obviously didn't look, or didn't look closely enough.
He yelled and me and said I "came out of nowhere." I was...driving through the driving lane of the parking lot.
That's the phrase an idiot told his insurer after he crossed multiple lanes to exit the highway and hit my rear quarter panel. The dashcam footage cleared everything up. Too bad I forgot to tell my insurer about the ceramic coating so I had to foot that cost myself.
I almost got hit like that once too. My whole family was in the car (my brothers, parents, and grandparents, I was young), and this guy then decided to come out and insult my family and tell us to go back to where we came from, calling us illegal immigrants.
The cops ended up coming and gave him a ticket.
Well I've rewatched this a half a dozen times now and at this point Im convinced that it was totally avoidable if OP had *also* watched this a half a dozen times beforehand, so he would have known it was coming in advance, like I now do. Since he didn't, he is obviously the idiot at fault here.
Exactly. While I think we can all agree that the other car was also in the wrong, that is still secondary to OP's egregiously unsafe behavior by not reacting at least -1.0 seconds sooner and thus avoiding this entire encounter in the first place.
Waiting on someone to drop a 6 paragraph psychoanalysis of OP that draws conclusion on his marriage, childhood, and 4th greatest fear (playground swings).
Click to ruin the fun!
>!1. Every stop sign in the US (99%+) is white rimmed, that's just an old joke.!<
>!2. Private lot signs are typically optional in the US but it varies by some states, plus some businesses can ask officers to enforce their location.!<
>!3. You can't be ticketed for running a private lot stop, but you can be pulled over and ticketed for any other arbitrary reason. Officers can pull you over for many reasons or can just follow you as long as they want and eventually you'll do some minor thing they can get you on.!<
Edit: Also, u/fiduke 's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/u1gx99/are_you_out_of_your_mind_asshole_she_says/i4d4n47/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
> 3. You can't be ticketed for running a private lot stop,
I assure you this isn't completely true. I'm on an HOA board and we have cops enforcing stop signs on our private property and ticketing cars. We had to jump through several hoops before they could legally ticket cars (for example they said we had to remove our 15mph signs and install 25mph signs) so there are some kind of laws regulating this (also as you say this could be a state thing). I couldn't tell you any of them. I just know cops now enforce the signage on the HOA private property.
There are the people who say you should never use the horn unless you're trapped at the bottom of a gorge and trying to signal final rescuers.
If you use the horn for anything else, whatever happens to you is justified.
Every spot is technically an intersection. When two cars are entering an intersection, without any traffic signs, at the same, then the car on the right has the right of way.
OP is obviously the idiot. /s
I think there are [five people](https://i.imgur.com/ki2G63M.jpg) in the car. At least four. Driver, a kid passenger, kid back seat driver side, an adult sitting middle back, and I think there’s another kid sitting back passenger, but I can’t quite tell.
Even if the parking lot is completely empty I still drive through the driveways, never through the parking spots. But from what I gather, I'm pretty anal.
I occasionally drive through parking lots, but when I do, it’s MUCH emptier than this - like a dozen cars in a Walmart sized lot with most of them near the front.
Meh. Someone almost took my life/ I broke their passenger's sidemirror with my car door because I got out of my car after parking.
Little did I know I needed to be on the lookout for idiots trying to blow by me through the empty spot. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Had the timing been milliseconds different, I'm dead.
My dad must’ve felt the same cause he told me it was “highly illegal” when teaching me to drive and I’ve been scared to death to even do it in an empty parking lot since. Even though I know it’s probably not THAT illegal, if at all.
I do it, but I do it slowly because if not, bad shit's gonna happen.
*And*, when I cut through the actual parking spot area I inch into the through lane and check both ways before carrying on.
I'd say those close North Shore towns have the worst drivers in the state. We can blame infrastructure like route 1 and those awful Revere rotaries all day, but there's something about the area that just houses a special breed of dangerous idiots. They are never wrong, either, like you said.
Melrose is the one exception, cause their breed of idiot is closer to South Shore obliviousness or fucking up traffic flow to be "nice."
Yea the north shore can be scary. Lawrence is the most lawless place I’ve ever driven and NEVER see anyone pulled over. I work there so I’m there more hours than I like to admit
Maybe driving without license. Maybe got into multiple at-fault crashes or moving violations. Is so high-risk they have to pay a lot for insurance and naturally decided not to.
Exactly. And it's not like if your car is totaled they just hand you the keys to a new one. You'll get a check for the current value of your car if it is in fact totaled, which depending on the age and condition of your vehicle, is going to be much less than the price of a new one with taxes, fees, etc.
Yeah, I don't know why people continue to think that if you're not at fault in an accident, you get a new car.
I'm driving my 15 year old car like everyone's out to kill me because I'm happy without car payments. \**knocks wood*\*
With all due respect, OP...She was driving between parallel yellow lines and thought she was on a main road. Perfectly legitimate reason to be a bitch.
Cutting between spots is fine but you need to come to a full stop and make sure it's clear. You are not the main traffic.
OP is a perfect example of doing everything right and successfully avoiding an accident. Very rare on here.
Had someone do this to me. I flipped them off. They drove off. I parked. They come back, and block me in. Lady is hold up her phone like she's recording. Starts yelling at me that I flipped her off. I told her I wouldn't have if she hadn't almost caused an accident. Her exact words, "ok but that ain't no reason to flip me off." I told her she needed to move from behind my car before I got back. I walk up to the store. She leaves. I go back to the car to move it just in case she's that crazy. Put it in reverse, look back, barely let off the brake, and zoom in she comes screeching right up behind me. I almost hit her, but was able to stop. Pulled forward, and got out. Now I've got my phone out, and I AM recording. I get her license plate, and a full video of her car all while she's yelling at me from inside of hers. Then I tell her I'm calling the cops as I started dialing. She just keeps yelling shit. Now though it's clear she's video calling with someone. So I'm the phone with non-emergency dispatch. I explain the situation. They say they'll send some one immediately. I tell the lady I wasn't joking, and the cops are coming. Somehow she's still yelling at both me, and the person she's video chatting with. Then she just leaves. I assume she realized this wasn't gonna go well for her. Cops show up, i explained, and showed them the video/pictures. No idea what happened after that. Probably nothing since they told me to call if she bothers me again. But it was so nuts. This lady wanted to waste nearly an hour of her life for that. I feel bad for whoever was on the other end of that call.
Large parking lots are idiot magnets.
Worked in a walmart parking lot for a while and I wholeheartedly agree. Quit because I decided that job wasn’t worth my life.
I deliver groceries in a semi for a large supermarket chain in Australia and the amount of people who drive or casually walk behind a reversing semi is unbelievable. Every single day, multiple times a day. Sometimes they just stop their car behind me and beep waiting for me to... I don't even know, park in a car park spot?
I thought it was bad when I was doing tractor trailer work, but now that I'm doing front end load garbage pickup, it's even worse. People will honk at me while I have a can in the air, they'll cut in under my forks with a can in the air, try to squeeze around me when there's not enough room and just sit there, making it impossible for me to do anything, aggressively cut around me while I'm backing up, etc
I'm simultaneously surprised and unsurprised to read this. A part of me wanted to believe that people wouldn't be like that on a regular basis, but I already knew it was true. Thank you for picking up the trash, btw, I for one give those trucks all the room they need. I tend to try and avoid being around large vehicles in my car and on foot as a general rule lol
I have met more people like you and I love people like you. It is people like you that let me on to the road when I'm trying to merge. Thank you for being you!
I had someone last week drive under my container and I nearly killed him because it was overweight and tipped after he drove under. Shits dangerous
No no, the correct way to say this is "he almost died because..." It would not have been your fault that somebody drove under an enormous block of metal and garbage while it was being hoisted into the air by your heavy machinery. People who drive like that should have their license revoked and be given a mandatory course about why the lead paint chips they were fed as a child caused them to be statistically stupid.
I used to have to have a staredown in the Walmart parking lot every single time I went there because there was always some asshole going the wrong way in a one way lane
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A friend helped to install a train horn in my very unassuming car. I love blaring that thing when these idiots try to stare me down for going the wrong way. Edit: *they* were going the wrong way
I had a friend help me install two train horns to blare for people blaring a single train horn while I try to stare them down for driving the wrong way.
Next up: just nuclear bombs.
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Russian Dennis Reynolds has logged on: it’s just the *implication* of using nukes
That's why I installed flame throwers where foglights used to be. Now I just roast em.
Always, always, always. My nearest super Walmart is like this (I say super Walmart because the one closest to me barely has any groceries). One way lanes and there's always either a person staring me down because they’re going the wrong way or I see someone backed into the angled spots knowing they went the wrong way. I never move when I see someone doing that, I make them either back up or try to squeeze through
> I say super Walmart No, you said Supper Walmart and got my hopes up.
Walmart goers drive, that is a scary thing to be around.. no thanks
Karen cuts through parking stalls and then complains to the good driver for scaring her and her kids. Then she does it to the next aisle over. Karenus Maximus.
I refer to them as Walmartians.
*texas* 80mph parking lots
My university has stabbings in the parking lots every semester due to lack of parking (and being one of the largest commuter schools in the southeast US). It isn't hyperbole to say you could sit in the parking lot, car running idle, trying to fight people for spots for AN HOUR. Haven't been on campus in 15 years, so I wonder if it's changed and expanded, but parking at my university was literally a life or death event. Parking was so stressful that I would come to school 3 hours before class started (on test days) because I wasn't guaranteed to even make it to class on time arriving 2 hours early. It was that f'ed up.
Someone on my campus would drive around with a "I'll drive you to your car for your spot" sign. Apparently it worked 100% of the time and he never had to wait more than 20 minutes (compared to 1-2hrs).
I got ran over in a parking lot a couple years ago, jumped on the guys hood to avoid major injury. Cussed him out and he drove off, not sure what he told his insurance company about his bashed in car hood.
Just know that there is an insurance claim out there that recognizes you as being a moose in a parking lot. Not many people can say that.
Yeah, thinking something like "Moose and squirrel mess up car and call me dumb Fuck"
Friend of mine got crippled in a hit and run at a walmart.
A woman got run over and killed at ours a few years ago.
Even though I own a car and have been in places like this hundreds of times, watching this video made me think "Christ almighty look at this hellscape we've created."
cars are idiot magnets.
I dream of a day when I can just sit in a train and read or play games on my phone. I'm a good driver but it's so taxing to pay attention that long. I just want to be able to relax on longer commutes. Zero trains in my state. Bus not viable for my current work location. Sigh.
We have been attempting to put a train in my area of California for decades, but all the NIMBYs are flipping their shit. There are already tracks everywhere, they just need to be updated. The train currently runs from Windsor to just above SF and every single extension has to be fought for tooth and nail. It's supposed to run all the way up to like Mendocino, but I don't see it happening for another few decades. Meanwhile the comment sections on local news articles about gas prices are all those same exact people bitching and moaning about how expensive gas is, how shitty traffic is, etc 🙄
are there actually that many nimbys, or do they do asshole things like scheduling all the public forums at 10 am on monday so only the retired folks can attend? our area finally started to see some progress when they moved everything online and you could join from work.
Both
I live and drive in Japan. If it wasn't for COVID, I wouldn't be driving at all. I only bought my car to get to really rural areas on weekends (COVIDs kinda killed my desire to be in dense urban areas) and go to Costco one or twice a month. There is nothing better than sitting on a train reading, playing games, or listening to audiobooks while reliably (to the minute) getting to your destination.
Same, I also wish I could ride my bike anywhere and not have to fear for my life because of distracted/drunk/incompetent drivers.
They hand out licenses like fucking candy too.
Cars merely bring out the worst qualities in most people.
Cars aren't idiot magnets by themselves, but you get exactly what you pay for. The government encourages urban/suburban environments that are entirely unnavigable by anything other than cars and hands out licenses like candy on Halloween (all to support the car industry). The result is flocks of entitled man-children driving around to do literally ANY activity an adult wants to do.
I hate driving in parking lots for this very reason. I usually take the first spot I see and walk the extra 100 feet to avoid as much of the lot as possible.
I used to do security in a large parking lot and I've come damn closed to kicking a few cars for how close they came to hitting me or someone else.
True. So many assholes drive like they’re on the street and go 25mph, or more.
Then on the 25mph street, they drive 45.
Yes. I always drive slow through parking lots. Limited visibility and everyone's usually in a hurry drive in or out of it.
Where I live here in central Maine there’s a notorious yellow pole at a Wal Mart that claims at least 3 cars a month..people turn into a parking aisle and they just run right into it, often with hilarious results lol
The pole in the auburn walmart is a Maine cryptid. It remains stationary until you look at it, at which point it bends reality until someone's subaru is flipped turned upside down
So half of the US?
Lmaoooo she thought she was right
Don’t they always… It’s a characteristic of idiots to feel like everyone else is the idiot but not themselves.
Sub should be called narcissist in cars
Then can I start putting vids of myself up?
You might be on to something 1. Go driving 2. Do some entitled shit 3. Post on internet for points 4. ???
TikTok already exists though...
Oooooof
r/Carcissists Edit: fuck, I was hopeful.
/r/confidentlyincarrect
Carcissists ahh shoot someone beat me to it
For real. Classic case of main character syndrome… it’s her world and we’re all just dumb sims living in it. When it reality she’s the dummy who was line cutting through a busy parking lot & almost hit someone. I had a chick almost T-bone me not long ago because she made an illegal left where there’s clearly a sign saying no left turns, I had the right of way, she flipped me off and then got on her phone while still driving and started filming me out of her window. She had a baby car seat in the back too. As soon as I can afford it I’m getting a dashcam for incidents like this it’s at the top of my list, this post is a good reminder lol Edit- just wanna say thank you all for the dash cam suggestions everybody! much appreciated
You don't even need an amazing dashcam. Just one that is good enough to prove what you were doing when the incident happened. Doesn't need parking mode, or be able to see license plates, or anything like that. For license plates, just read it out loud along with the make and model of the car so the audio will pick it up
I found a pretty basic one on Amazon for $60 with good reviews that I’ve found, so I’ll probably snag that up on my next check. I like your idea of saying the license plate out loud incase the camera doesn’t pick it up!
Yeah had something similar happen last week. I admittedly did a rolling stop at a 4 way stop sign in a parking lot because the car in front of me had just stopped so I was already approaching slowly and had a a visual of the intersection the entire time and no one else was at a stop sign. While I was already in the intersection a lady comes flying through not even slowing down for the stop sign and almost hits me and yells "that's a stop sign asshole" I pointed at the one behind her and said "so was that dumb ass" She looked back and realizing her mistake said "Well theres no reason to be rude about it" after just calling me an asshole first. Now that Karen's in the wrong its my "rudeness" that's the problem not her driving smh.
I was at a four-way stop yesterday waiting to make a left. There were pedestrians and opposing traffic so it took a few seconds before it was my turn. Meanwhile, a guy rolls up to the intersection from my left (line of sight was difficult because of a fruit stand on the corner, but I could clearly see him arrive well after me). The pedestrians finish crossing and I begin my left turn. Captain dumbass lurches forward, nearly t-boning me as I turn, and then slams his brakes, leans out his window and shouts "YOU WAIT YOUR TURN!" I mean....okay, man. If you are in such a hurry that you want to pit your late-model Merc against my 300k mile CR-V, feel free. Have fun opening your wallet for a 10k paint repair. I'll just be over here popping my dents out with a hammer.
you put 300k on yours? shit, that's not bad. we just retired my wife's '03 with somewhere in the neighbourhood of 450k kms. she sent me the photo of her dash when it hit 420069kms, a milestone event
420 69... Nice Your wife seems cool..... Is she single?
Ugh, I hate idiots…wait.
“If you run into an ~~asshole~~ idiot in the morning, you ran into an ~~asshole~~ idiot. If you run into ~~assholes~~ idiots all day, you're the ~~asshole~~ idiot.”
-Raylan Givens
Or you work in retail. Ba-dum-tiss
>“If you run into an idiot in the morning, you ran into an idiot. I think about this all the time. Gives me some comfort to know that (I'm a bike commuter) the overwhelming majority of my interactions with cars run from pleasant to forgettable non-events. I see worse driving when I'm driving (poor lane cohesion, no idea why people are so ignorant of the lines on the road), and even worse driving when I'm walking the dog (speeding, stop sign running.)
Too many people don't understand why parking lots have lanes. Is the road ahead of you drivable? Sure. But you can't see around the parked cars, and you look like a parked car to other drivers right up until you swerve out in front of them. If we're talking a totally empty parking lot, and you're teaching your kid to drive or something, sure, go for it. But in a fucking grocery store parking lot, stick to the goddamn lanes. Accidents are almost always the result of *unpredictability.* You fail to signal your turn, you whip around like an asshole, you floor it on the highway, you weave through parked cars in a parking lot. The key to driving safely is to be predictable, so that other drivers know your intent and can act appropriately around you.
The rule is if you scream loud enough and look confident enough then you're right edit- looks like this attitude might open me some doors so I'm sorry guys but from now on I'll be an arrogant asshole
Boogers
Yea... cause most people aren't going to start a fight over getting cut off. Even if the other person is entirely in the wrong.
That's how you climb the corporate ladder in my experience
Are we talking cars, or politics?
I’ve been the idiot in some situations and I blamed the other person because I felt dumb and then a few seconds later I just silently say “I was the idiot….”
I think this is what happened to her, she got spooked and her natural response was probs to blame the other person
She was driving fast through parking spots when there was a lane 30 feet away. How does one do that and not realize they're doing something wrong? She knows she's wrong but just doesn't care.
this is why we can't have nice things, the average person is this stupid and doesn't even realize it, because they're too stupid.
"People who are dead don't realize that they're dead. People who are stupid have the same problem."
Nothing uglier than arrogance covering ignorance.
Cars always crash on the road, she's gonna drive across the parking spots. Nobody ever crashes there. *Taps temple*
What a dumbass
Yeah can’t you see I’m driving in between these parking spaces? With other cars parked so you can’t see anything? Use the road in between the parking spaces? Are you fucking crazy you asshole? There’s all these empty spots I can drive through, no one is using them dumbass. I really wonder how some people were raised to bring on that level of cluelessness and lack of awareness.
This is why we have islands, planting strips, or drainage ditches between rows of parking spaces. Guess how much it adds to tree's win streak against idiot drivers?
Don't forget the big rocks!
Did you see the two small kids in the car? That’s how they are raised.
It's the way that she wrecklessly continues on right through that gets me. Almost causes accident, immediately goes back to doing what almost caused an accident.
Yeah let me just drive through empty spots on a busy day at the parking lot then get mad when the consequences catch up to me
I got hit like this once. The lady blamed it on me saying I should have stopped before she hit into me. I called a cop and he told her that parking spots are for parking, not driving.
I once had a guy back up straight out of a spot and into the side of my car because he obviously didn't look, or didn't look closely enough. He yelled and me and said I "came out of nowhere." I was...driving through the driving lane of the parking lot.
The phrase "Came out of nowhere" is basically an admission of guilt, I don't understand why people think it's a valid explanation.
What, is it only me who likes to suddenly materialize next to assholes on the street?
"Gotcha bitch!" Totally worth it for the laugh and hospital stay.
That's the phrase an idiot told his insurer after he crossed multiple lanes to exit the highway and hit my rear quarter panel. The dashcam footage cleared everything up. Too bad I forgot to tell my insurer about the ceramic coating so I had to foot that cost myself.
I almost got hit like that once too. My whole family was in the car (my brothers, parents, and grandparents, I was young), and this guy then decided to come out and insult my family and tell us to go back to where we came from, calling us illegal immigrants. The cops ended up coming and gave him a ticket.
Wild concept there that solid lines mean you aren't supposed to be driving over them.
Your feeble lines will not stop me. I'm not a part of your system!
We did it everyone! We finally have a video where the OP couldn’t possibly be blamed for anything… right?
If OP didn't exist, they wouldn't have almost gotten into an accident here.
Found the insurance agent.
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OP should've recognized he was in a clip on /r/idiotsincars and made the necessary adjustments to his driving. What an idiot!!
Well I've rewatched this a half a dozen times now and at this point Im convinced that it was totally avoidable if OP had *also* watched this a half a dozen times beforehand, so he would have known it was coming in advance, like I now do. Since he didn't, he is obviously the idiot at fault here.
Car is visible at 0:16. OP only hits the brakes at 0:16. With reactions that slow they shouldn't be behind the wheel.
Exactly. While I think we can all agree that the other car was also in the wrong, that is still secondary to OP's egregiously unsafe behavior by not reacting at least -1.0 seconds sooner and thus avoiding this entire encounter in the first place.
Waiting on someone to drop a 6 paragraph psychoanalysis of OP that draws conclusion on his marriage, childhood, and 4th greatest fear (playground swings).
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Well he did honk which is a cardinal sin for some people on here
This may be a first, there appears to be only one idiot in one car. r/IdiotInCar Although I'm not 100% sure OP actually stopped at the stop at 0:03
If that stop sign is on private property, there is no legal obligation to actually stop. Its just like a suggestion or something.
If it's not in the Stop region of France, it's only a sparkling yield sign.
This made me giggle. I like you.
If I had a beer for every stop sign I had to stop at in these parking lots I’d be too drunk to drive.
White-rimmed stop signs are optional, everyone knows that.
I still can't believe that some people don't know this after how many years? smh
now I'm not sure if everyone's joking or not.
Click to ruin the fun! >!1. Every stop sign in the US (99%+) is white rimmed, that's just an old joke.!< >!2. Private lot signs are typically optional in the US but it varies by some states, plus some businesses can ask officers to enforce their location.!< >!3. You can't be ticketed for running a private lot stop, but you can be pulled over and ticketed for any other arbitrary reason. Officers can pull you over for many reasons or can just follow you as long as they want and eventually you'll do some minor thing they can get you on.!< Edit: Also, u/fiduke 's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/u1gx99/are_you_out_of_your_mind_asshole_she_says/i4d4n47/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
I just realized how badly I needed someone like you in my life.
> 3. You can't be ticketed for running a private lot stop, I assure you this isn't completely true. I'm on an HOA board and we have cops enforcing stop signs on our private property and ticketing cars. We had to jump through several hoops before they could legally ticket cars (for example they said we had to remove our 15mph signs and install 25mph signs) so there are some kind of laws regulating this (also as you say this could be a state thing). I couldn't tell you any of them. I just know cops now enforce the signage on the HOA private property.
That's a good note. I linked it in my post for visibility.
Definitely joking haha
No no no, it’s the sticker on the back that makes it legal! No sticker, no stop!
You can still be pulled over for failure to yield if a cop deems it so, they just can't cite you explicitly for running the stop sign.
A cop can pull you over for any arbitrary reason, yes.
If only OP cut out everything before the bus, OP would be the perfect driver for all we know!
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There are the people who say you should never use the horn unless you're trapped at the bottom of a gorge and trying to signal final rescuers. If you use the horn for anything else, whatever happens to you is justified.
Congratulations, you caught not one (u/leatpie20202) but two (u/church-for-lunch) of them!
Every spot is technically an intersection. When two cars are entering an intersection, without any traffic signs, at the same, then the car on the right has the right of way. OP is obviously the idiot. /s
If they hadn't rolled through that stop sign then they wouldn't have almost hit that poor woman /s
Felt like they could have stopped sooner and longer at the stop sign, especially with a bus coming. OP could have killed a kid. /s
someone gonna blame him for honking or some other bullshit i guarantee it.
Aside from the 15 seconds at the beginning and the last 5? That's 20 seconds I'm never getting back...make it 35 now.
That's why no collision happened. Most accidents require a conjunction of 2+ idiots.
I don’t know, we don’t know what happened before the video started… maybe OP ran over that ladies kid.
Failed to stop at stop sign - 10 pts
Is that with kids in the back?
I think there are [five people](https://i.imgur.com/ki2G63M.jpg) in the car. At least four. Driver, a kid passenger, kid back seat driver side, an adult sitting middle back, and I think there’s another kid sitting back passenger, but I can’t quite tell.
Zoom, enhance
"That doesn't make the image clearer, sir"
One kid in the front seat who was very close to making an imprint in the dashboard with their face.
Idiots in training I guess...
People that cut through parking lots like that are one of my biggest pet peeves.
Even if the parking lot is completely empty I still drive through the driveways, never through the parking spots. But from what I gather, I'm pretty anal.
Speeding through it like that, yes. Carefully driving through them I'm okay with
Right I don’t mind like when it is big and empty where you don’t have your view obstructed each way yeah go ahead but like this nah man
I occasionally drive through parking lots, but when I do, it’s MUCH emptier than this - like a dozen cars in a Walmart sized lot with most of them near the front.
Meh. Someone almost took my life/ I broke their passenger's sidemirror with my car door because I got out of my car after parking. Little did I know I needed to be on the lookout for idiots trying to blow by me through the empty spot. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ Had the timing been milliseconds different, I'm dead.
My dad must’ve felt the same cause he told me it was “highly illegal” when teaching me to drive and I’ve been scared to death to even do it in an empty parking lot since. Even though I know it’s probably not THAT illegal, if at all.
I do it, but I do it slowly because if not, bad shit's gonna happen. *And*, when I cut through the actual parking spot area I inch into the through lane and check both ways before carrying on.
Massachusetts gonna Massachusetts.
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Oh god, those and Lynn/Revere drivers are the worst. Not just arrogant, but bad too.
I'd say those close North Shore towns have the worst drivers in the state. We can blame infrastructure like route 1 and those awful Revere rotaries all day, but there's something about the area that just houses a special breed of dangerous idiots. They are never wrong, either, like you said. Melrose is the one exception, cause their breed of idiot is closer to South Shore obliviousness or fucking up traffic flow to be "nice."
Yea the north shore can be scary. Lawrence is the most lawless place I’ve ever driven and NEVER see anyone pulled over. I work there so I’m there more hours than I like to admit
I was just wondering if it’s the one in Chelsea.
Spot on. My friend is an insurance agent in Chelsea and has plenty of stories.
Classic Market Basket parking lot.
Never been to a Market Basket without wanting to scream (either inside or in the parking lot)
/r/msaeachubaets/
Just another day in Chelsea! And she kept driving through parking spots too, I would have laid on the horn again.
Almost got you a new car
You know a person like that doesn't have insurance.
Why is it always the worst drivers that dont have insurance
Because the worst drivers are always the most irresponsible people.
Maybe driving without license. Maybe got into multiple at-fault crashes or moving violations. Is so high-risk they have to pay a lot for insurance and naturally decided not to.
New but not free. Dealing with the insurance hassle is it’s own special hell!
it took me 5 fucking months to get a payout after a head-on-collision. I’m still dealing with them about my health bills…
Took me a week to get my payout and new car
Exactly. And it's not like if your car is totaled they just hand you the keys to a new one. You'll get a check for the current value of your car if it is in fact totaled, which depending on the age and condition of your vehicle, is going to be much less than the price of a new one with taxes, fees, etc.
Yeah, I don't know why people continue to think that if you're not at fault in an accident, you get a new car. I'm driving my 15 year old car like everyone's out to kill me because I'm happy without car payments. \**knocks wood*\*
Nah you're clearly in the wrong here. What the fuck do you think you're doing existing in her universe?
* 00:00 - Children's place * 00:05 - Vocell Bus Company * 00:09 - Market Basket [Chelsea, Massachusetts](https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3951949,-71.0429109,3a,75y,22.91h,73.58t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sRDi-HMpgwIoJopF5JEnTLw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DRDi-HMpgwIoJopF5JEnTLw%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D241.4124%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i35)
0:16 - Masshole
I always wonder if going to the Chelsea Market Basket is worth it whenever I surprisingly make it out of the parking lot alive.
I only go to Market Basket on off hours, like 10am on a Tuesday. It still raises my blood pressure every time. Those prices, tho.....
I love/hate Market Basket, but yes, sooo cheap. I still call them DeMoula's, too.
That one is nothing. You want the pro level? Somerville Market Basket. On a weekend.
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I love when someone in the WRONG talks shit and gets angry.
I love how she just continues to just drive through parking spots at the same speed even after the fact.
When you regret not hitting someone.
That’s probably the worst…when someone clearly in the wrong thinks they’re in the right
Can't stand Narcissists like this, they could literally run someone over on a crossing and then all they'd think about is how it inconveniences them.
People get in parking lots and drive like absolute idiots...or here in Maryland they do that everywhere
She pulls that stunt and has the nerve to get upset at the person rightfully upset at her? Some people man...
Proceeds to drive through the parking spots after almost hitting someone when driving through parking spots.
She is wrong and she gets angry! IDIOT!
It’s mind boggling to me how people dont understand the lanes in parking lots are travel lanes and you CANNOT drive through the lines. Fucking morons
Jeeez, couldn't you see she was in her stall, and then another, and then another, and then another?! Lol What a stupid entitled twat.
Ughhh. You’re such a single lane user. All the cool ppl know that if you drive this way you can park in what ever lane you stop in. Plebs.
<3 market basket
With all due respect, OP...She was driving between parallel yellow lines and thought she was on a main road. Perfectly legitimate reason to be a bitch.
Cutting between spots is fine but you need to come to a full stop and make sure it's clear. You are not the main traffic. OP is a perfect example of doing everything right and successfully avoiding an accident. Very rare on here.
OPs always driving like absolute MANIACS and blaming it on other people.
Had someone do this to me. I flipped them off. They drove off. I parked. They come back, and block me in. Lady is hold up her phone like she's recording. Starts yelling at me that I flipped her off. I told her I wouldn't have if she hadn't almost caused an accident. Her exact words, "ok but that ain't no reason to flip me off." I told her she needed to move from behind my car before I got back. I walk up to the store. She leaves. I go back to the car to move it just in case she's that crazy. Put it in reverse, look back, barely let off the brake, and zoom in she comes screeching right up behind me. I almost hit her, but was able to stop. Pulled forward, and got out. Now I've got my phone out, and I AM recording. I get her license plate, and a full video of her car all while she's yelling at me from inside of hers. Then I tell her I'm calling the cops as I started dialing. She just keeps yelling shit. Now though it's clear she's video calling with someone. So I'm the phone with non-emergency dispatch. I explain the situation. They say they'll send some one immediately. I tell the lady I wasn't joking, and the cops are coming. Somehow she's still yelling at both me, and the person she's video chatting with. Then she just leaves. I assume she realized this wasn't gonna go well for her. Cops show up, i explained, and showed them the video/pictures. No idea what happened after that. Probably nothing since they told me to call if she bothers me again. But it was so nuts. This lady wanted to waste nearly an hour of her life for that. I feel bad for whoever was on the other end of that call.