- Feb 22, 2005
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2 examples from today, same parking lot, within 30 seconds of each other.
1) I'm driving down the side of a building, and a woman decides she doesn't want to walk on the sidewalk (it had some snow on it), so she walks 5 feet in the road away from the sidewalk, because there's no puddles or snow there. This is right near a corner where people can't see too well, so cars are coming around and having to swerve to avoid hitting her, yet she keeps going. She gets a 2 on the Clue-O-Meter.
2) After I turn the corner and am driving through the parking lot, someone ahead of me on the right is backing out of a spot. Being the Christmas season, and me being a nice guy, I slow and stop, and wave them out. They take their sweet time pulling out, while cars pile up behind me, then start going forward in front of me. Ahead of them I see someone starting to back out, further away than I was from them when I stopped. Do they stop? Nah, they speed up, and jerk their car to the left around this person, causing them to stop short and a guy coming the other way to stop to avoid getting in a head on collision. I'm glad they passed on that little bit of Christmas/Holiday spirit I sent their way.
Anyone else get the feeling that the overall intelligence factor tends to drop a bit when going into a major holiday, or is it possibly just the cold? Has to be something, because I see people doing some of the dumbest things I've ever seen on a daily basis, things that are just so unsafe that it boggles my mind how they aren't dead yet.
1) I'm driving down the side of a building, and a woman decides she doesn't want to walk on the sidewalk (it had some snow on it), so she walks 5 feet in the road away from the sidewalk, because there's no puddles or snow there. This is right near a corner where people can't see too well, so cars are coming around and having to swerve to avoid hitting her, yet she keeps going. She gets a 2 on the Clue-O-Meter.
2) After I turn the corner and am driving through the parking lot, someone ahead of me on the right is backing out of a spot. Being the Christmas season, and me being a nice guy, I slow and stop, and wave them out. They take their sweet time pulling out, while cars pile up behind me, then start going forward in front of me. Ahead of them I see someone starting to back out, further away than I was from them when I stopped. Do they stop? Nah, they speed up, and jerk their car to the left around this person, causing them to stop short and a guy coming the other way to stop to avoid getting in a head on collision. I'm glad they passed on that little bit of Christmas/Holiday spirit I sent their way.
Anyone else get the feeling that the overall intelligence factor tends to drop a bit when going into a major holiday, or is it possibly just the cold? Has to be something, because I see people doing some of the dumbest things I've ever seen on a daily basis, things that are just so unsafe that it boggles my mind how they aren't dead yet.