People are Idiots

I was already fair amped up this past weekend. What with being ill, having a sick wife and two sick kids. The real frustration was Mr. B sniffing his nose sniffing his nose every 17 seconds. (I wish I was employing a little hyperbole there, but it got so bad I was timing it.) Heck, he had to blow his nose twice while I was peeing (the Wife was napping). So there I stood, my willy in one hand and a tissue in the other (for a very different reason than I've ever had before).

Well the Wife finally awoke, and with elevated blood pressure I headed off to the grocery store. Because, getting behind the wheel of a car is a good thing to do when you are edgy. Right? (That scene from "Ground Hog Day" keeps popping in my head, "Don't drive angry!")

So I pull into the turn lane so I can get to the parking lot for Target. There are a couple cars in front of me already (no biggie). I pull up behind the car in front of me and open my windows (the temp is in the 60's on the way to the 70's), when I notice that the ditz in the car in front of me has left an entire car length to the white line marking the intersection. This means that she is so far back, that she won't trigger the left turn light when the time comes. (She wasn't sitting on the ground sensor for the light.)

I wanted to do nothing more than lean on my horn. I figured that either a) she would get pissed off (I was almost there already), b) she wasn't paying attention and would shoot into the intersection (that would be bad), or c) she would creep forward. Only one of those would have been a desired result, so I resorted to signing really loudly (which, quite honestly could have had similar results as honking my horn).

Well, finally some else pulled in behind me to trigger the second sensor. Off we went.

Only to have to deal with "Parking Lot Idiocy".

As I'm cruising the Target parking lot for a parking spot (I keep hearing that we are in a recession, but people seem to be spending money just fine around here), I am confronted with three Moms and their daughters. The Moms are engaged in conversation and couldn't be bothered with getting their brood out of the middle of the road.

This time, I did honk the horn. The worst case scenario would have been the kid running into my stopped car this time. After laughing off dirty looks (how dare I not run over their kids!) I found a parking spot out in the boonies.

People are idiots.

Posted by Russ @ Dads Who Mock The World