There's a HOLE There!

[ralerin]

As my mother and I were turning into our back alley to come home yesterday afternoon from "Mexican Bell", there was some guy parked halfway across the entrance to said alley, up against the church's fence next door. Right next to him is a GIANT sinkhole (giant as in large, not as in deep) where the storm drain is collapsing into itself, followed by a parking lot for an apartment complex with a guy with a HUGE SUV had parked. People like to park in the alley or in an empty space and honk their horns for their buddies to come out of said complex. Annoying, but no one has had the cojones to block the entrance yet, except for this guy.

There was barely enough space for mum's car to pass through, but one end would have gone down into the sinkhole. Mum honks the horn. Guy is not budging, as a matter of fact he waves his hand out the window to pass us through. Mum just grumbles and goes into the sinkhole and out, then parking in our space.

Not 2 minutes later, another woman in a minivan is turning in from the opposite direction. She honks her horn. Again, guy waves her through. She rolls down her window and lets him have it.

"DO YOU NOT SEE THE GIANT HOLE THERE? THERE'S A HOLE THERE! YOU NEED TO MOVE!"

"No way lad-"

"MOVE IT OR I WILL CALL THE POLICE. THERE IS A GIANT. HOLE. THERE. MOVE IT NOW!"

Guy peels off down the back alley and woman passes through, flipping off guy as she goes.

Sucky woman, definitely, but suckier man for not moving.

[Antisocial_Worker]

No, no, no... There was a hole here. It's gone now.

You win a cookie if you get the reference, which will probably not make up for the suckiness of the situation. Around here, we run into that sort of thing on a fairly frequent basis. Only, we run into it at high speeds because the roads are disintegrating and what are you going to do when you're motoring along and can't get over into another lane because of other traffic when you see a hole approaching?

You floor it and hope you can sail to the far rim, that's what. That's about all we can do at the moment.