What the hell is wrong with people?

[Tiberius Jim]

Warning: this is a distinctly Trekker-esque thread featuring a rant about questionable driving decisions, complete with detailed charts. The OP is aware of this but was so completely blown away by the sheer ridiculousness of what he witnessed that it had to be made known.

Now that that's out of the way...this is what I witnessed through the front windows of my workplace today.

Below is a fairly accurate representation of the parking lot right in front of my work. Being the Sunday right before Memorial Day, we were understandably slow. As you can see, there is only one car in the parking lot. That would be mine, shown here as a blue box. There were a few cars parked here and there but the point is that there were no cars anywhere near mine. The closest was maybe 10-15 parking spots away in either direction. Those gray boxes are those planters with trees that end up turning the parking spots in front of them into nearly useless "compact" spots. My workplace is shown as the white/gray portion at the bottom of the image.

See that white car? I watched as it pulled into the parking lot.

And then it did this.

That's right. This guy chose THE most difficult spot to park in, coming mere INCHES from scraping the side of the ONLY car in the parking lot in front of the business he came for. After he "parked" (he kept the car in the position in the last image) a lady, presumably his wife, got out (almost hitting my car yet again with the door as she did so) and came into the store to print some photos from a CD. The dude sat out in the car while she did so. Her problems with the printer she was using proved she and her husband not only share a mortgage and bank accounts, but also a single brain cell.

I just...I don't get it! I specifically parked further away to give customers access to the parking spots in front of the store. And ALL of said spots were open! Not to mention every other spot that wasn't adjacent to my car.

What the fuck?

 

[Amaris]

Many such people are completely unaware of their surroundings, and more or less don't care.

 

[JonathonWally]

These are probably the same people who stand next to you in an empty elevator or with 7 free urinals come way too close.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, some people are like that. They are drawn to others as if by a magnet: "Somebody is there, so that's where I'm supposed to be."

I also suspect there was drunkenness or a hangover involved in this case.

 

[Goliath]

Carlo Cipolla's Basic Laws of Human Stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person will be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

 

[SPOCKED]

Thanks for a good old fashion, morning lol, Flux. Watching that whole thing play out must've been torture. I wish I had the answer, but at least we all get a good chuckle.

 

[Dukat's Major]

OMG, this is such a well-done and well-deserved rant!

 

[scottydog]

I'm reminded of how dumb the average person is, and how half the population is even dumber than that average!

 

[MetalPants]

I try to grant everyone a moment of pure total stupidity a day. I know, some people are stupid all day, but I forgive one moment.

Perhaps you encountered this couple during their morning stupid moment.

 

[Holdfast]

Warning: this is a distinctly Trekker-esque thread featuring a rant about questionable driving decisions, complete with detailed charts.

I believe this is the first warning sign that you may be developing a brain tumour. Please get a scan at your earliest opportunity...

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm reminded of how dumb the average person is, and how half the population is even dumber than that average!

Personally, I think everybody is below average.

 

[trampledamage]

I'm reminded of how dumb the average person is, and how half the population is even dumber than that average!

Personally, I think everybody is below average.

That's because some of us are skewing the results...

 

[1001001]

People are so goddamned oblivious, that's the problem. They just go stumbling around "La De Da, Ho De Do, I'm the center of the Fucking Universe. There's no one here but me."

"Why don't I put my make-up on while I'm driving? That'll save ME some time! God I'm brilliant."

"Oh, aren't I great? I drive an $80,000 Chevrolet Planet-Raper, so I get to straddle the line between two parking spaces. Suck on that, society!"

"Turn signals are for losers. Besides how can I indicate a lane change to someone else when I've got a cell phone in one hand and my Vanilla Soy Half-Caf Latte in the other? Just get out of my way!"

"What is with all these other cars on the freeway? Don't they know I've got somewhere to go? I'll just tailgate the fuck out this guy in front of me, and magically the 700 cars in front of him will just part like the Red Sea for Moses."

God, I hate people so much.

 

[sbk1234]

This further demonstrates why I spend more time with my dogs!

 

[RandyS]

People are so goddamned oblivious, that's the problem. They just go stumbling around "La De Da, Ho De Do, I'm the center of the Fucking Universe. There's no one here but me."

"Why don't I put my make-up on while I'm driving? That'll save ME some time! God I'm brilliant."

"Oh, aren't I great? I drive an $80,000 Chevrolet Planet-Raper, so I get to straddle the line between two parking spaces. Suck on that, society!"

"Turn signals are for losers. Besides how can I indicate a lane change to someone else when I've got a cell phone in one hand and my Vanilla Soy Half-Caf Latte in the other? Just get out of my way!"

"What is with all these other cars on the freeway? Don't they know I've got somewhere to go? I'll just tailgate the fuck out this guy in front of me, and magically the 700 cars in front of him will just part like the Red Sea for Moses."

God, I hate people so much.

You just described one of my friends, except for the value of his car, which he recently fucked up because he was talking on his cell phone, something he denies doing--while talking on his cell phone!

I've never seen anything like this kid.

 

[Udat]

These are probably the same people who stand next to you in an empty elevator or with 7 free urinals come way too close.

Ooooo pet peeve, regarding the urinals....

 

[Cornholio]

as one of my college professors was fond of saying, "people are basically stupid".

it always gets me when I see people drivin' the wrong way down the aisle in a parkin' lot. you know, the spaces are angled one way or the other to make it easier for dumbasses to pull in and out of, and there's a big farkin' arrow painted on the ground indicating which way you're s'posed to drive too, but invariably, there's the below average dumbass that's goin' the wrong way, tryin' to pull into a space.

just one of the many reasons why we need to make it tougher to get a drivers license, instead of just awardin' them to whoever shows up at the DMV.

stupid people shouldn't breed.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

as one of my college professors was fond of saying, "people are basically stupid".

I've said that exact same thing for so long, word for word, that I've gotten sick of hearing myself say/think it.

It's just so apt. And seemingly becomes more true as the years pass.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

People are so goddamned oblivious, that's the problem. They just go stumbling around "La De Da, Ho De Do, I'm the center of the Fucking Universe. There's no one here but me."

"Why don't I put my make-up on while I'm driving? That'll save ME some time! God I'm brilliant."

"Oh, aren't I great? I drive an $80,000 Chevrolet Planet-Raper, so I get to straddle the line between two parking spaces. Suck on that, society!"

"Turn signals are for losers. Besides how can I indicate a lane change to someone else when I've got a cell phone in one hand and my Vanilla Soy Half-Caf Latte in the other? Just get out of my way!"

"What is with all these other cars on the freeway? Don't they know I've got somewhere to go? I'll just tailgate the fuck out this guy in front of me, and magically the 700 cars in front of him will just part like the Red Sea for Moses."

I didn't realize you were behind me that day. You won't tell anyone about the makeup, right?

 

[Mary Ann]

Ah, Entitlement Bunny Syndrome. So many stupid people are afflicted with it.

When people ask me how I can handle working with kids, I tell them to spend a day observing the adults around them. My thinking is that the majority of adults are completely beyond hope, but that children still stand a chance of improving themselves and actually becoming decent human beings. I'm way too cynical to work with adults.