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Originally Posted by Baz
I do the same thing....park my cart somewhere out of the way (unlike where everyone else parks their cart) and scoot around to get what I need.
I just had an idea - and I think it's worth further study - and perhaps implementation. How about bringing one of these with you in the store with a clamp you can attach it to your cart....
I'm tired of having to say "Excuse me - sorry to bother you - would it be possible for you to accommodate my needs to get by? Oh...thank you so much!"
With this you just give it a couple toots.....  |
that's awesome. Connect it to some sort of clamp so you can actually clamp it to the pushbar on your cart.
I have "a voice that carries", so when I run into that situation I try to really "project" a quality "excuse me." My voice works a lot like the horn you have as far as getting peoples' attention, but with less mirth. They usually jump a little and then GTF out of my way.
One that I run into frequently, but ran into twice today that really bugs me is people that think the lines on the road for lanes are just a suggestion.
I work in downtown Houston and drive into work. Like they say, everything's bigger in Texas, which includes most traffic lanes. Most lanes are wide enough for 1.5 cars a least. Driving into town this morning (which I did twice, don't ask) as I pulled up to a light where the 2 left lanes were blocked with barriers, the twit that's in what would normally be lane #3 is over the line into lane #4. There's easily 3' of space to the left of their car. I was able to squeeze the boxster in between the curb and their truck and slip right up along side them and a little out in front so they could see me. I also put it in sport mode to trigger the sport exhaust into loud mode and gave it a couple of blips. The next time I went downtown 2 hours later, when I pulled up to the same light, some doofus is completely straddling the center line (There are 2 full lanes that could easily fit a city bus and a full size pickup side by side). Not only was he straddling both lanes, but he was a car length back from the stop line in the intersection. I was a little testy (I did mention going downtown twice, right), and laid into the horn. He did move up but didn't move over. When I light turned, I was able to get around him and would have liked to stop sideways across both lanes and ask them WTF, but that's not me. It was however thoroughly irritating, and not that uncommon.
How about the folks that regardless of how big or small their car is, have to swing out wide to turn? Really, you've got an entire lane, but you need to pull to the left onto or over the center line in order to turn right even though you're only driving econobox du jour?