You can see me, I can't see you, what should you do?

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Okay, sooo...

Leaving the grocery store today, I find that a big ol' pedo truck is parked next to me. (You know the type, huge, no windows, white, the typical kind used to portray child abductors who tell kids they have puppies or candy.)

I can't see a darn thing down the aisle from that side, so I decide to very slowly start backing up. Very slowly. So that anyone coming up the aisle has a myriad of choices;

A) slow down and stop to let me come out, I would be eternally grateful
or
B) honk so that I stop and they can pass by.

I literally can not see a thing coming from that side until I'm almost all the way out of the parking spot anyway.

So, halfway out of the parking spot (still blind on that side), still going slow, I spot a big white car go flying by me, nearly taking out the read end of my car. I jam my brakes (yay for going really slow!) and proceed to swear at my rear view mirror as I go back to slowly pulling out again.

Yes. I understand the people in the lane have the right of way, but I CAN'T SEE THEM to yield the right of way to them. They can see my car, they know I can not see them, decide to not give me any warning (a honk) and just nearly take my back end (where all my groceries were!) out.

Ugh.

[Food Lady]

I usually just stop and let the person back out, even if I'm not taking the spot. I mean, I have 2 minutes, you know?

[PepperElf]

(You know the type, huge, no windows, white, the typical kind used to portray child abductors who tell kids they have puppies or candy.)

OT, but this brings back memories. My parents use to drive one of those - but it was black. They said the cops would check it out in parking lots sometimes cos it looked like a drug-running van. (the other use you mentioned never occurred to them).

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Haha, PepperElf, that's because the pedo ones are only white. Drug runners use black. They agreed to this color scheme in order to make sure people watching movies or TV shows know exactly what the truck is really for.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Got the same thing Saturday. Was backing very slowly out of a stall when some bubble-headed bleach blonde bimbo in a big-ass SUV comes roaring down the aisle, slams on her brakes, and lays on the horn.

I understand that I'm to give people in the aisle the right of way as I'm backing out. That's why I was going slow. Take a fucking Xanax.

[EricKei]

They agreed to this color scheme in order to make sure people watching movies or TV shows know exactly what the truck is really for.

And let's not forget the windows tinted so dark that they can block out the light of an atomic bomb...Because a dark vehicle with illegal tint doesn't make the cops suspicious at all ~_~

[Food Lady]

Got the same thing Saturday. Was backing very slowly out of a stall when some bubble-headed bleach blonde bimbo in a big-ass SUV comes roaring down the aisle, slams on her brakes, and lays on the horn.

I understand that I'm to give people in the aisle the right of way as I'm backing out. That's why I was going slow. Take a fucking Xanax.

I'm pretty sure she shops at my store.

[RealUnimportant]

I'm sure it's actually in the UK's Highway Code that you're supposed to give way to anyone already maneuvering in the road; you wouldn't think so to see the people around here blasting past through shrinking gaps while others are trying to turn in the road or in car parks.

I was trying to shuffle my way into a parking space the other day & someone ran straight for the gap I needed to use to do my shuffling... (tiny sidelot, spaces only on one side, barely room to drive past unless everyone's parked properly - you know the score.)

Despite the fact I was still in the car, engine running, in the process of trying to move, they glared at me with such ferocity that I actually felt a wave of guilt for holding them up - until they finally moved past & demonstrated just why they were in such a hurry; they wanted to turn around & park facing the other way in the access lane, blocking the rest of the car park while they waited for a friend.

[ApolloSZ]

Haha, PepperElf, that's because the pedo ones are only white. Drug runners use black. They agreed to this color scheme in order to make sure people watching movies or TV shows know exactly what the truck is really for.

Unless its Black with a red stripe and Spoiler.


Then its the A-Team.

[Rock Lobster]

Unless its Black with a red stripe and Spoiler.


Then its the A-Team.

Now where is that darn like button?!?!?!?!

[sms001]

(You know the type, huge, no windows, white, the typical kind used to portray child abductors who tell kids they have puppies or candy.)

As quickly as this thread went to "What are they thinking when they drive a van that fits that stereotype?" I thought of this immediately. Took it on my way home from work a while ago. I have to wonder if the hassle of being pulled over constantly is worth the "joke."

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Haha, PepperElf, that's because the pedo ones are only white. Drug runners use black. They agreed to this color scheme in order to make sure people watching movies or TV shows know exactly what the truck is really for.

Not all drug runners had a black van . . . The A-Team had one.

Now if you see an older green Chevy van, they're usually used by junk dealers around here. They used to be used by maintenance for the local City School District (before they merged w/the county in the mid 90's.)

[Sakka]

Not all drug runners had a black van . . . The A-Team had one.

But that one has a red stripe and a spoiler.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Not all drug runners had a black van . . . The A-Team had one.

Hey, they sold stuff out of that van, too.

Granted, what they sold was ass-whuppin' and lead, but my point still stands!

[Caractacus_Potts]

I had a similar situation a few years back but I have a small coupe and I had giant SUV's on both sides of me. I'm backing out at a snails pace and whipping my head back and forth trying to see past both cars at the same time as more of the lot is revealed. Then just as I look right there is a bang. I stop and look left to see a twenty something couple directly behind my car; the woman was holding a pizza, the guy had just slammed his hand down on my trunk to get my attention and they were both glaring at me.

I felt really, really bad and guilty...for about two minutes. Then I realized these two self entitled assholes had deliberately walked behind a car that was backing up even though it was clear the driver couldn't see them and acted like "I" was the one with the problem. At that point all I wanted to do was go find them and ACTUALLY run them over (and take their pizza too!).