Idiot driver.
03-27-08, 09:11 PM
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Idiot driver.
I went to work today with the kid trailer on the bike today loaded with some books for one of my customers to look through to see if there was anything they wanted to read. After work I am going home in the rain with the trailer. For all intents and purposes any driver would think I had a child in the trailer, even though it was rainy and late at night. On the way home I pull into a Speedway gas station to pick up milk and bread. There is no vehicle in the parking lot, PERIOD. I pull up to the parking spot nearest the door so I can lean the bike up against the pallet of windshield washer fluid. Wouldn't you know it, someone pulls in and parks in the very parking spot I am using. They didn't park next to me, they parked behind me. Their vehicle was sticking half way out because I was in the front half of the parking space. I am wearing a bright reflective vest, pulling a trailer with reflectors all over it, in a well lit parking lot. There are at least ten other spots to park, and one on the either side of me. I come out and put everything in the trailer and head on my way. The person in the car then pulls up the rest of the way and parks. What an idiot.
03-27-08, 09:48 PM
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I went to work today with the kid trailer on the bike today loaded with some books for one of my customers to look through to see if there was anything they wanted to read. After work I am going home in the rain with the trailer. For all intents and purposes any driver would think I had a child in the trailer, even though it was rainy and late at night. On the way home I pull into a Speedway gas station to pick up milk and bread. There is no vehicle in the parking lot, PERIOD. I pull up to the parking spot nearest the door so I can lean the bike up against the pallet of windshield washer fluid. Wouldn't you know it, someone pulls in and parks in the very parking spot I am using. They didn't park next to me, they parked behind me. Their vehicle was sticking half way out because I was in the front half of the parking space. I am wearing a bright reflective vest, pulling a trailer with reflectors all over it, in a well lit parking lot. There are at least ten other spots to park, and one on the either side of me. I come out and put everything in the trailer and head on my way. The person in the car then pulls up the rest of the way and parks. What an idiot.
03-28-08, 01:19 AM
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Ahh ... you are forgetting ... to some car drivers cyclists are invisible. It wasnt that he was waiting for you to move ... he just didnt see you and was parking really really slowly.
03-28-08, 07:24 AM
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Good thing that he was going to gas station and not to gymn where he could have potentially walked a few miles on treadmill but then taking those two extra steps in the parking lot was a bit too much !!!!
Indeed people are wierd !
Indeed people are wierd !
03-28-08, 01:40 PM
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Strange and likely even rude behavior I agree. But what difference did it make to you? If I understood right there was no safety issue and their parking location in no way prevented you from leaving easily.
Maybe they felt like they were protecting the child left alone in the rain in a dark empty parking lot, hence waiting for you to leave the store before they finished parking? Maybe they wanted a close look of your set up as they want a trailer for their bike? (I know both of these are unlikely, but why only speculate on the bad reasons they did this?)
Al
Maybe they felt like they were protecting the child left alone in the rain in a dark empty parking lot, hence waiting for you to leave the store before they finished parking? Maybe they wanted a close look of your set up as they want a trailer for their bike? (I know both of these are unlikely, but why only speculate on the bad reasons they did this?)
Al
