Posted by NCWayne on October 10, 2012 at 21:47:51 from (69.40.232.132):
.........Goes unpunished..........
Ok, maybe I'm exagerating things a bit, when I say No good deed goes unpunished, but I swear that's often what it feels like....maybe it's just because I hate stupid people, I don't know.....
Anyway, coming home this afternoon, in 5 o'clock traffic, I stopped a bit short when the light changed to let a guy out of a parking lot and into traffic ahead of me. Now traffic is lined up at least 1/4 mile, plus, behind me just from the light changing..... but it got worse. The woman in the car behind the guy I let in decided she wanted out too so she shot straight out into the space left as he turned into the only real open spot. Not a big deal, usually, as I was going to let her out anyway. Thing is, when the light changed, she just sat there. Seems she wanted to get across 3 lanes of HEAVY, ((((DID I WAY HEAVY LOUD ENOUGH?))) constantly streaming, traffic, to the far side, and into the Left turn lane. Guess she didn't have sense enough to go to the end of the lot where she could have hit a side road and gone straight across, or turned, with the light.
Anyway, she pulled out and just sat there. The light changed and she just sat there holding up everyone in our lane. She kept looking at me expecting me to let her know when she could go since there was no way she could see past my service truck. All I could do was set there looking in the mirror and shrugging my shoulders at her as the other two lanes of traffic continued to flow right on past while the one behind me just kept getting longer and longer. I tried to motion her to get out of the way several times when it became obvious she was NOT going to get across, and even resisted the urge to eventually do it with just one finger.....Saddly she was either oblivious as to what I was meaning for her to do, or just too stupid to understand....Don't know which..... So, after setting there until the end of that green light, through the red one, and into the next green light, a sherrif's car finally pealed out of the line behind me, followed by at least half of the ones that had been setting there, and headed our way. He stopped beside me, holding up that lane, with the window down and has asked me what the holdup was. About the time he saw her just setting there. Too, at the same time there was a short lull in the third lane, and that was the moment she needed, so she just shot on across into the turn lane just ahead of the third lane of traffic still headed her way. For my part I told the sherrif what happened and he, like me, just rolled his eyes. By this time she's long gone so we went on about our travels.
In the end, you know, I don't mind doing a good deed by letting people into traffic. The way I see it, if I do a good deed, next time I need to get into traffic with my truck maybe someone else will return the favor to me. Unfortunately this woman didn't have sense enough to know that when she didn't get across at the first light change she needed to get the heck out of the way and let the rest of us go. Had the sherrif not showed up when he did I fully believe the idiot would have still been sitting there trying to do something that would have been impossible (had it not been for the sherrif) because she didn't have sense enough to put her car into reverse and get the heck out of the way.....Man, I hate stupid people.......
Other than that it was a pretty good day so I'll stop ranting now......LOL
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