I drove on nearly to the end of the block, saw a parking space I wanted and started backing into said space. A grown man, gray bearded, walked along the sidewalk, stepped directly behind my moving vehicle and cut across the vacant parking spot to get to his vehicle which was behind that space. I stopped, of course? and waited until he cleared my path then proceeded to park-- close to his truck so he would have to back up to get out, of course!
I was presented with the platinum opportunity to off or seriously maim two of my fellow-human beings in the space of less than one-half-block. I didn't.
Idiocy reigns.
Happy birthday to my eldest child, Ann Marie,
and to my brother-in-law, Elvin!
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For many folk these days, the motto seems to be, "All for me and me for me."
@Secondary Roads - Or as my mother used to say "Hooray for me, the hell with you"
Chuck, in the case of the obliviot, had I been going three mph faster, or had he stepped off when I was five feet closer, it would have been lights out for him.
Grace, yep, that is the world in which we live.
And if you had hit either, they would have sued the pants off ya. And win. arrggh.
I had a teen on a bike ride directly across 4 lanes of traffic just as the light turned green for us to go. I couldn't catch my breath for a block or two.
Lin, oh, yes I would have been the loser all the way around. Doesn't this stuff happen just entirely too often?
Lots of close encounters. Of the idiot kind. But scary
Sharkey, admonition: keep your eyes open and your wits sharp.
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