Mother F*&$#ing Drivers

[2Blonde]

I really hate it when I follow all the rules and circle around the parking lot at HEB and pull up to my parking space, with my blinker on and then some bitch comes from the wrong way and pulls in the space right in front of me.:flipoff

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Word. That's almost as bad as the dumb bitches who will hold up the entire flow of traffic in the lot because they see some little old lady just getting to her car. Then everyone is stuck behind them for five minutes while this poor old lady is feeling rushed to load up her groceries because some asshole is waiting on them.

Oh, and people who leave their carts out in the lot. Hate them too. What is about parking lots that make people such assholes sometimes?

[Mixability]

I really hate it when I follow all the rules and circle around the parking lot at HEB and pull up to my parking space, with my blinker on and then some bitch comes from the wrong way and pulls in the space right in front of me.:flipoff

You had your blinker on through the whole parking lot?


To add, not to pick on women drivers, but I hate when they have their rear view mirror pointed directly to their face. If you're that ugly to continue to have to reapply makeup throughout rush hour, you should just stay home. :lol

[easjer]

Oh, me too. I get so fucking pissed off (as SFIE will tell you) when people pull that shit.

I get more annoyed though, when people hold up traffic waiting for someone to leave - not just pull out, but load up all their groceries, walk their cart back, settle their kids in, search their purse for their wallet or cell phone, get in, make a phone call, and THEN leave. The people who follow folks to their car and wait are assholes.

[Mixability]

Oh, and people who leave their carts out in the lot. Hate them too. What is about parking lots that make people such assholes sometimes?

I make it a point to take my cart to the designated area. :tu

But when I see some dumbfuck that thinks his brand new F-150 deserves to take up 4 parking slots by parking completely out of whack so he doesn't get doored...... He deserves every cart I put around his piece of shit surrounding it, so he can be paranoid about getting a ding. :lol

[Mixability]

Oh, me too. I get so fucking pissed off (as SFIE will tell you) when people pull that shit.

I get more annoyed though, when people hold up traffic waiting for someone to leave - not just pull out, but load up all their groceries, walk their cart back, settle their kids in, search their purse for their wallet or cell phone, get in, make a phone call, and THEN leave. The people who follow folks to their car and wait are assholes.

When I "feel" someone "spot stalking" me, I usually walk past my car, pause then walk back to it, by then they can't reverse.

[slayermin]

I really hate it when I follow all the rules and circle around the parking lot at HEB and pull up to my parking space, with my blinker on and then some bitch comes from the wrong way and pulls in the space right in front of me.:flipoff

You wouldn't like Cali drivers then. Everyone cuts corners. My pet peeve is that no one signals out here. It is fucking irritating.

But one positive is that everyone in Cali drives fast except on the 405 which is gridlock everyday, all day.

[2Blonde]

You had your blinker on through the whole parking lot?
:lol No, I put my blinker on about halfway down the aisle to signal to anyone approaching I was pulling into the only available slot, that one. It was a one way lane. It was the end slot and I was already turning my wheels to pull in when she came out of nowhere going the wrong way and shot right in front of me. I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting her with my car.

[Melmart1]

What I hate a little more than what 2Blonde was saying is when two assholes are sitting there at a standoff for said parking space, and in the process blocking traffic from coming through and taking a space that is like two spots away from them. I inevitably end up behind one of the standoffers, then someone comes behind me and blocks me from reversing out of the whole mess, then honks at me as if I am the source of the problem. :flipoff

[Mixability]

:lol No, I put my blinker on about halfway down the aisle to signal to anyone approaching I was pulling into the only available slot, that one. It was a one way lane. It was the end slot and I was already turning my wheels to pull in when she came out of nowhere going the wrong way and shot right in front of me. I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting her with my car.

If that doesn't call for a banana in the tailpipe, nothing does.

[CubanMustGo]

If people would just park their car in a convenient spot and not worry about getting THE CLOSEST FRIGGING POSSIBLE PARKING SPACE this would not be a problem. Walking a hundred more feet isn't going to kill anyone.

No, I don't pull in front of people who "reserve" parking spots in this way but it always amuses me to park 10 or 12 spots further down the aisle and beat them into the store because they are still sitting there waiting for Gramma to finish.

But I might as well wish lazy assholes who leave their carts all over the lot would put them back, because it's never going to happen.

[2Blonde]

I just cussed her out with my windows rolled safely up and gave her dirty looks as I drove out to Siberia to park. Then I watched her get out of her car and saw she had some kind of pump attached to herself. She was probably waiting for a heart/lung or a brain transplant or something like that. I felt really bad for about two seconds and then thought "That's still no reason to be a parking space stealing bitch!!!"

[Das Texan]

Word. That's almost as bad as the dumb bitches who will hold up the entire flow of traffic in the lot because they see some little old lady just getting to her car. Then everyone is stuck behind them for five minutes while this poor old lady is feeling rushed to load up her groceries because some asshole is waiting on them.

Oh, and people who leave their carts out in the lot. Hate them too. What is about parking lots that make people such assholes sometimes?



I take my sweet ass time when someone is doing that to me.

[2Blonde]

If people would just park their car in a convenient spot and not worry about getting THE CLOSEST FRIGGING POSSIBLE PARKING SPACE this would not be a problem. Walking a hundred more feet isn't going to kill anyone.

No, I don't pull in front of people who "reserve" parking spots in this way but it always amuses me to park 10 or 12 spots further down the aisle and beat them into the store because they are still sitting there waiting for Gramma to finish.

But I might as well wish lazy assholes who leave their carts all over the lot would put them back, because it's never going to happen.
You shouldn't always rush to judgment about why someone wants the closest parking space. In my case it was a handicapped spot and I needed it just as much as she did. Not that it matters to you. I didn't include that in the original story because it was irrelevant, but since you think I was just trying to get the closest spot "for the hell of it", I thought I would explain.

[IceColdBrewski]

Oh, and people who leave their carts out in the lot. Hate them too. What is about parking lots that make people such assholes sometimes?


I don't put carts back where they belong.

I do at least make sure they aren't going to roll downhill into someone's paint job.

The reason I DON'T return them is because one of my old high school friends was a former grocery bagger. He told me that collecting the carts was his favorite part of the shift. Makes sense...collecting carts on a beautiful day >>>> double bagging some old lady's groceries with her staring at you....

So, I don't return the carts so that the kids bagging gorceries can have some "down time" rounding up carts. Well, that and laziness. :D

[Melmart1]

There are VERY few beautiful days in South Texas. As a former HEB employee I can say that cart duty was the least-fun part of being a bagger, especially in the summer.

[CubanMustGo]

You shouldn't always rush to judgment about why someone wants the closest parking space. In my case it was a handicapped spot and I needed it just as much as she did. Not that it matters to you. I didn't include that in the original story because it was irrelevant, but since you think I was just trying to get the closest spot "for the hell of it", I thought I would explain.

[in regular parking spaces] 9 times out of 10 it's strictly convenience as the people who come out of their cars more often than not appear hale and hearty. If those who were healthy wouldn't try so danged hard to minimize their walks by a few steps there would indeed be spaces closer for those who need them.

I knew I should have put in a disclaimer about handicapped spots, b/c an even bigger pet peeve of mine are jerks who park in them who don't belong there. No license plate, no permit, just pull in and saunter in. "Oh, I'm just going to be a minute" or BS like that. Since you didn't mention that minor detail there was no way to know that's what you were talking about - apologies.

[PM5K]

What I hate even more is fat people who are "handicapped"....

I bet it's a glandular problem.....

[boutons_]

Driving rules in a parking lot?

That's like rules in a knife fight (Cool Hand Luke)

there aint any rules, sucker.

you need the exercise anyway. :lol

[Das Texan]

There are VERY few beautiful days in South Texas. As a former HEB employee I can say that cart duty was the least-fun part of being a bagger, especially in the summer.


i can vouch for cart duty.


I'd gladly help round them up when I was working at Target. Would take a good 30 min to an hour to get them all.


We had a good time doing it, even in the summer.

[Melmart1]

I hated cart duty, so did most of my fellow baggers at HEB. The only ones who liked them were the teenage guys, cus they would use it as an opportunity to flirt with the hot customers as they got in and out of their cars.

[CuckingFunt]

I always take my cart back. Not doing so has always seemed to me to be the very height of lazy.

[IceColdBrewski]

i can vouch for cart duty.


I'd gladly help round them up when I was working at Target. Would take a good 30 min to an hour to get them all.


We had a good time doing it, even in the summer.

That's pretty much the way my friend described it. It was basically "break time" while you were still on the clock. They'd go out into the parking lot and fuck around for about 45 minutes while slowly picking up the carts. And if one of the guys had brought their stash to work, they'd hurry up with the carts and spend a few minutes in one of their cars getting high before going back to work. :smokin

[zero signal]

When I "feel" someone "spot stalking" me, I usually walk past my car, pause then walk back to it, by then they can't reverse.
I do that at the UTSA lot. :lmao

God damned vultures.

[2Blonde]

That's what kids are for. I make my daughter put my cart back.:lol

[Spurminator]

My list of parking/driving-related annoyances not already included in this thread:

1. People walking to their car in the middle of the parking lot without giving room for cars to pass them. Move out of the way assholes.

2. People who don't turn right on red

3. People who, when pulling to a light where they will be going straight, change lanes into the far right lane because there will be no cars in front of them, thus blocking cars who would have been able to turn on the red light.

4. Two cars in adjacent lanes going the exact same speed.

5. Anyone who goes below the speed limit without their hazard lights on. If your car can drive the speed limit, drive the speed limit. It's safer anyway, pussy.

6. People who come to an almost complete stop before turning.

7. Anyone who rides up on my ass when it's obvious I can neither change lanes nor go faster because of other cars in front of or around me. It's a great way to make me go even slower.

8. Anyone who does no follow this rule on the highway: "The Left Lane is For Passing Only"

9. Anyone who does not pull onto the shoulder to let people pass them on a two lane highway, ESPECIALLY those going below the speed limit.

10. Also on the highway, anyone who does not maintain a consistent speed. If you have cruise control, use it. If not, stay within a 5 mph range. And get cruise control.

[ALVAREZ6]

1. Asians

[samikeyp]

There are VERY few beautiful days in South Texas. As a former HEB employee I can say that cart duty was the least-fun part of being a bagger, especially in the summer.

There are many beautiful days here...the problem is that too many of them are so damn hot! :lol

I am with ya Mel on cart duty.


Something about grocery stores that makes people stupid. Actually I have a theory...no matter what someone's chosen profession, once they become a consumer, the average IQ drops about 30%. Those people who block the lanes in the parking lot are usually the same ones that stand in the middle of the aisle looking for something and blocking that too.

[Style. Defined.]

I hate parking lots that don't offer valet.

(Not that I ever buy groceries.)

[ShoogarBear]

Then I watched her get out of her car and saw she had some kind of pump attached to herself. Was she a judge?

[leemajors]

8. Anyone who does no follow this rule on the highway: "The Left Lane is For Passing Only"

if it's an old four lane like 87 used to be from cuero to victoria and the right lane is a bumpy pos i will drive in the left lane.

[Spurminator]

if it's an old four lane like 87 used to be from cuero to victoria and the right lane is a bumpy pos i will drive in the left lane.

Exceptions can be made.

[Mixability]

That's pretty much the way my friend described it. It was basically "break time" while you were still on the clock. They'd go out into the parking lot and fuck around for about 45 minutes while slowly picking up the carts. And if one of the guys had brought their stash to work, they'd hurry up with the carts and spend a few minutes in one of their cars getting high before going back to work. :smokin


Hmm, maybe if the cart boys weren't busy getting high in the back while on the clock, maybe the "express" lanes at HEB would take less than 20 minutes to get though....

[cherylsteele]

Another thing I don't understand is when I go to checkout at HEB, Wal-Mart, etc. and I have less than 10 items and they only have one of those computer checkers open (when they have alot more that could be open). How about opening all those automated checkouts or do you not want to pay you computer overtime or something? Or maybe the computer is on strike or something.

On that same note.....I hate when people have a whole month's supply of groceries to buy and they use the express lanes or those automated ones, and the checker on duty says nothing even though thier light says 10 items or less and the customer has bought out the store. What is the point of the express lane then?

[Mixability]

Another thing I don't understand is when I go to checkout at HEB, Wal-Mart, etc. and I have less than 10 items and they only have one of those computer checkers open (when they have alot more that could be open). How about opening all those automated checkouts or do you not want to pay you computer overtime or something? Or maybe the computer is on strike or something.

On that same note.....I hate when people have a whole month's supply of groceries to buy and they use the express lanes or those automated ones, and the checker on duty says nothing even though thier light says 10 items or less and the customer has bought out the store. What is the point of the express lane then?

:tu

I totally agree. Even in the early evening hours, all the nearby HEB's REFUSE to have the automated lines open, even though they have less than 1/4 of their remaining "manned" lanes open.

I once was soooo pissed that I was waiting so long, that I purposely waited in a godawfully slow line with a cartful of groceries. When I got to the front, I told the cashier, "I hope it takes ya'll as long to put up all this shit as it did for me to wait in line to pay for it." and left. The manager-type guy stopped me at the door, expecting me to go back and pay. I just told him that I didn't feel like giving them my business afterall, if they didn't appreciate my business enough to allow me to make a speedy checkout. Just his luck that some of his employees were knocking off at the front of the store playing with the Icee machine, on company time for that matter. I bet THEY could've helped out by opening a register or two. :lol

[slayermin]

1. Asians

At least we have insurance.

[phyzik]

I really hate it when I follow all the rules and circle around the parking lot at HEB and pull up to my parking space, with my blinker on and then some bitch comes from the wrong way and pulls in the space right in front of me.:flipoff

This is when you park, wait for them to go inside, and key the FUCK out of their car.

For those that have had their cars keyed, maybe you did something to deserve it.... maybe not.


To clarify what Im talking about, it was obvious I was going to park in this one spot, I pulled up just as the guy was backing out. Put my signal on, no one behind me, and wait the 5 seconds for the guy to pull out. As soon as he does some guy driving in front of the store decides to zip in. I rolled my window down and asked the douche and his friends if they saw me or not (it was obvious I was there) and they just blew me off. I calmly parked at the back of the lot, walked into the store and got my stuff. I saw them in the store pointing and smirking. I Pay for my stuff, pull out my keys and calmly spelled "douche bag" on their car door with my sharpest key while they where still shopping

[ShoogarBear]

One time in Boston's Chinatown, we were backing into a parallel parking space, and a couple of assholes whipped into the space behind us. We were out there for about ten minutes arguing about it and they wouldn't budge. So, after finding another spot a couple of blocks away, we came back around and took the air out of both their front tires.

There may have been some alcohol use involved.

[Marklar MM]

Two things I really hate.


1-People who drive below the speed limit.
2-People/trucks that pull into your lane to pass another truck/slow person.

[phyzik]

another thing to do to people who REALLY piss you off is kick/break their side mirrors off. I've only had to do this once though.

[CuckingFunt]

I have many, many driving pet peeves. However, my biggest all involve the den of ignorance that is the local post office.

I HATE the people who are too lazy to park in the parking lot to drop off mail when alone, and instead park on the street so they're blocking the drop boxes and take five minutes to shut off the engine, get out of the car, walk out to the boxes, get back in the car and finally pull away. If you're getting out of the car anyway, why not drive the extra 50 feet and pull into the parking lot? About six months ago, some woman did that and locked her fucking keys in the car so that the drop boxes were completely inaccessible for probably an hour.

[Marklar MM]

another thing to do to people who REALLY piss you off is kick/break their side mirrors off. I've only had to do this once though.

What if they come at you with a gun? Do you kick off their bumper too?

[phyzik]

What if they come at you with a gun? Do you kick off their bumper too?

Interestingly enough I've never had someone steal a parking spot then proceed to shoot at me in the HEB parking lot. I dont live in San Andreas: Liberty City

[THE SIXTH MAN]

There are VERY few beautiful days in South Texas. As a former HEB employee I can say that cart duty was the least-fun part of being a bagger, especially in the summer.
I used to work at H-E-B too, and I agree with the fact that when I was a bagger I wouldn't always look forward to doing a basket round up. During the summer heat while working an afternoon shift I would hate doing that. I only enjoyed doing it at night, because someone said it earlier in this thread about it being a time to slack off. :tu

[Marklar MM]

Interestingly enough I've never had someone steal a parking spot then proceed to shoot at me in the HEB parking lot. I dont live in San Andreas: Liberty City

That was for your breaking mirrors off cars thing.

[2Blonde]

Was she a judge?
:lmao

[jman3000]

i used to work at heb and doing carts in the rain was the shit. im probably the only one who liked doing carts because i didnt have to deal with all the idiot shoppers.

[phyzik]

That was for your breaking mirrors off cars thing.

Maybe I should have clarified why I did it.... I dont want to waste the time but it was for a reason. Im sure there are jackasses that do it for NO reason, but I assure you, thats not me.

If it happened to you for "no reason" then Im sorry, but maybe you should think back and see if you maybe pissed someone off for "no reason". Most people just dont go around kicking side mirrors off for "no reason".

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

People/trucks that pull into your lane to pass another truck/slow person.

If another lane is open on your other side, is it really that much of an inconvenience for you to move into said other lane?

[sa_butta]

I cant stand it when Im trying to get out of the parking lot, and a car comes by without thier blinker on and winds up turning into the very driveway I am trying to get out of.

[TDMVPDPOY]

At least we have insurance.

yes, and we like to double park outside of grocery stores :D:D:D: FTW