So yesterday I had to go to the mall to pick up a present for my buddies' birthday. I figured it wouldn't be too bad cause all those young-ins would still be in school, and my problem has nothing to do with the mall itself being busy, it's the parking lot. I usually hate parking lots, there are a few I despise, Plaza 33, Walmart, but the worst has to be the mall. I entered the lot over by Sears and drove over to the Chapters/The Bay lot and in that very short trip I had way too many close calls. People constantly cut me off, stopping wherever they felt like, and not abiding by any laws whatsoever. Combine this with pedestrians crossing everywhere and you have the most stressful 5 minutes I have ever spent in a car. I have a few pet-peeves when it comes to driving and almost all of them come into play within a parking lot. Like I hate it when people just throw on their hazards and think that gives them the right to stop wherever they want. Or when pedestrians cross wherever they want. If you're on a crosswalk I'll stop for you but if you just stand on the side of the road less than a block away from a crosswalk, there is no way I'm stopping for you.
I like to think I'm a pretty good driver but parking lots are the most painful experience I have to deal with on a daily basis. Granted I don't have a very hard life but parking lots aren't helping anybody. They're like the perfect storm of bad driving, crazy j-walkers, and total anarchy. Parking lots are where society breaks down. If an alien race was watching us in a parking lot they would deduce there is no intelligent life on this planet.
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