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Friday, June 23, 2006

Wal-Mart parking lot a.ka. Satan's Nostril's

If you have ever driven across a Wal-Mart parking lot (especially preston crossing in saskatoon) this blog doesn't need much explanation, but for those of you who have not, let me enlighten you.
First of all, as soon as you enter the parking lots, all bets are off, there will be people walking, driving, biking, wheelchairing, etc in literally every direction at all possible cross walks, its the biggest gong show you will ever see.
The worst are the elderly who have literally no peripheral vision, and give you the gas-break treatment for like 10 minutes because they believe they are trying to be nice and let you go, but there are like 5 cars behind them and 6 people waiting to cross, and of course as soon as you decide to just go, thats when they decide to almost T-bone you...
There are also the jerk-faces on cell phones who feel cutting you off is their perogative and will give you the "WTF! face" when you blast your horn at them. (these people are usually the rich snobs who, instead of getting hugs from their parents got ponies. What these people are doing at Wal-Mart is beyond me..)
Then you have to love the parents who have like 10 little kids with them and practice absolutly no control whatsoever. So needless to say the children run out in front of every car they see, how there aren't little white memorial cross's all over the parking lot i don't know...
I like to call this last group the "treat stop signs as yeild signs if your lucky" people, the title sort of speaks for itself. I am not even sure why they have stop signs in these parking lots, I have had to many close calls with people who don't understand the "vehicle on the right goes first" princepal.
Sometimes you think your smart and say "I am just gonna park at the back of the lot and walk, hahaha that will show them!" sure that may work at first, but then when it comes time to leave it takes probably 5-10 minutes waiting for somebody with enough common courtesy to let you back out, most people are so frusterated with all of the above people that they just don't care anymore.
So let's recap, people going in every direction, elderly folks gas/breaking with lines of people behind them, BMW's cutting you off at every turn, visually challenged running stop signs and little kids running out in front of you, and i am sure i am forgetting several others...
Summing it all up... I hate going to Wal-Mart.

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