Wednesday, September 17, 2008

One-Way. Not two. One.


It continues to amaze me how many people don't understand parking lot designs like this. The whole parking procedure works better if you drive the right way down the isle. I very commonly see people going the wrong way down these isles. Usually the isles in this type of parking lot are much narrower, making it difficult for a car going the wrong way and a car going the right way to pass each other. It's especially hard when you have a truck parked in there that has like a 7 foot long hitch. There's no gettin' around that. But it always amazes me that when you come head-on with one of these idiots that are going the wrong way, they give you the look like you're in their way. They're probably simultaneously thinking, "Why are these stupid parking spots facing the opposite way. Don't they know that it's nearly impossible to park in these spots?" Sure enough though, if they come head-on with a car going the right way and they see a spot, they will either make a 35-point turn to get into the spot, or they will make the car going the "right" way back up so that they can pull past the spot and then back into it.
This, along with every other driving blunder used to infuriate me, but I've recently taken a new approach to stupid people. Simply put, "Expect them." Now I no longer get angry when drivers do stupid things. I expect it of everyone so it never surprises me. It only puts me in that much of a better mood when people actually do the right thing because they pleasantly surprise me. Try this approach and tell me it doesn't make your day that much better. It's not worth getting mad at stupid people...they're too dumb to know that you're mad at them anyway.

1 comment:

Jason Palmer said...

Does the arrow point to where stupid people are supposed to park? You almost think that they should have a mentally handicapped parking lot