09-30-2003, 01:03 PM
Story:
I was in the downtown area of my suburb. My friend and I were going to meet some people at IHOP (I never eat there, we were just going to meet them). The way the suburb was designed, there was one entrance to a parking lot for THREE buildings, a fairly nice restaurant, Hollywood video and IHOP. This jerk was just sitting in the entrance blocking EVERYONE. THere must have been a 7 car pileup behind this person who needed to make a left hand turn but couldn't because of this jerk. So I swung around the crowd, and made my left hand turn on the next street. I go all the way around, and I'm forced to go through one parking lot, to get to an alley to get to the IHOP parking lot. So I get into the parking lot, and the entrance into the alleyway and the hollywood video is blocked by a concrete and grass barrier except for one place that's big enough for two cars. So some asshole has parked his car and turned the emergency lights on and left the car there. So all traffic has to be funneled through ONE lane, both ways. It wasn't crowded however, so I make it to the funnel. Meanwhile on the other side, some person is returning this video at Hollywood video. They are sorta sitting there, blocking the way for me to make a left hand turn. So I honk at them to move. They moved all right, right in front of me. I honk and honk. Finally I open my window and yell "THIS ISN'T A FUCKING ONE WAY ROAD! GET OUT OF THE WAY!". I was on the right side of the funnel, so I had right of way. The asshole stood there and shrugged. Out of necessity I back up and let the asshole through and give them the finger and yell at them some more as they pass by. I drive forward to see the next asshole in line trying to pull the same stunt. I yelled at them too. Lucky for me (and probably them as well) they did the reasonable thing and go out the ACTUAL exit rather than be a pain in the ass. By the time I got to the parking lot (which was no more than 10-15 yards away) I was so fucking mad at the drivers in the stupid suburb. All my friend could do was try and calm me down.
I was in the downtown area of my suburb. My friend and I were going to meet some people at IHOP (I never eat there, we were just going to meet them). The way the suburb was designed, there was one entrance to a parking lot for THREE buildings, a fairly nice restaurant, Hollywood video and IHOP. This jerk was just sitting in the entrance blocking EVERYONE. THere must have been a 7 car pileup behind this person who needed to make a left hand turn but couldn't because of this jerk. So I swung around the crowd, and made my left hand turn on the next street. I go all the way around, and I'm forced to go through one parking lot, to get to an alley to get to the IHOP parking lot. So I get into the parking lot, and the entrance into the alleyway and the hollywood video is blocked by a concrete and grass barrier except for one place that's big enough for two cars. So some asshole has parked his car and turned the emergency lights on and left the car there. So all traffic has to be funneled through ONE lane, both ways. It wasn't crowded however, so I make it to the funnel. Meanwhile on the other side, some person is returning this video at Hollywood video. They are sorta sitting there, blocking the way for me to make a left hand turn. So I honk at them to move. They moved all right, right in front of me. I honk and honk. Finally I open my window and yell "THIS ISN'T A FUCKING ONE WAY ROAD! GET OUT OF THE WAY!". I was on the right side of the funnel, so I had right of way. The asshole stood there and shrugged. Out of necessity I back up and let the asshole through and give them the finger and yell at them some more as they pass by. I drive forward to see the next asshole in line trying to pull the same stunt. I yelled at them too. Lucky for me (and probably them as well) they did the reasonable thing and go out the ACTUAL exit rather than be a pain in the ass. By the time I got to the parking lot (which was no more than 10-15 yards away) I was so fucking mad at the drivers in the stupid suburb. All my friend could do was try and calm me down.