After seeing this discussion being brought up again, I was going to genuinely ask you all to explain where that comes from. I’m from Brazil and I don’t recall ever shopping at a place with a large parking lot, which I believe might be part of the issue. I was thinking how come people value this act so much and before starting to write a post here I sent a message to a friend, then it hit me: it’s absurd.

I mean it. The feeling I had reading the comments wasn’t confusion or ignorance, it was the cognitive dissonance of looking at the world I live in and what people decided marks a person as decent. This is one of the moments I really have to stop and check if I’m not actually the crazy one. I really can’t think of something smaller to care about that someone else will defend so vehemently. Really, try me, I’m already broken again.

  • fracture [he/him] @beehaw.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    (also a rant, on a related but separate topic) holy FUCK along the same lines, i really hate it when people lurk in the parking lot waiting for someone to leave so they can park there! like wow, yeah, impede the flow of traffic and pressure the person leaving to hurry so YOU can have that space

    i hate it so much, it makes navigating an already-packed grocery store even worse. the ppl at costco are SO bad about this 💀💀💀 just go park further away, you already have a minute long walk to the store, another minute won’t kill you!!!

    this is my personal bar for whether someone is a good person or not :)

    (exception for anyone who legitimately needs the closer parking spots but cannot get the disability parking spots for whatever reason. but they are a TINY minority of people)

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      A few years ago, I got stuck behind this bullshit during the height of covid. Single travel direction, so no way out. Dude in front of me stopped because he saw a family starting to unload what must have been a $300 trip. Just sat there while they filled the car and then returned the cart, so at least they did that. About five minutes in, I laid on the horn enough that security came by to tell me that I was, in fact, the asshole.