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Post by Clipper on Oct 3, 2019 12:09:15 GMT -5
I just stopped at a local DG store to purchase laundry detergent. Ooops. Have to try later. The doorway and register area was occupied by a black Honda Civic and there was an Ambulance backed into the handicap parking spaces. I should have taken a photo. The car was all the way into the store. Probably because it hit the area with aluminum door and window framing rather than the block structure of the building.
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Post by Ralph on Oct 4, 2019 0:12:29 GMT -5
ROFLMAO!!!
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Post by kit on Oct 4, 2019 6:04:33 GMT -5
Must have been a VERY angry customer.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 4, 2019 7:46:21 GMT -5
It turns out that it was an elderly man who accidentally put the car in drive instead of reverse and accelerated into the store. Thankfully he only received minor injuries and was treated and released from the hospital. I have read reports of that around here several times over the past few years. I guess we need to look around when we get out of our car, before approaching the entry to the store on foot. We need to insure that there are no "old people" sitting in cars that are idling.
Oh my God! I AM and old person. Oh dear. I guess you need to look out for any large blue pickup trucks idling near the doors too! LOL
Not too long ago I pulled into a parking space at Burger King and noticed orange cones and yellow caution tape around a 3 or 4 foot square of plywood on the wall. Someone had stuffed the corner of their car into the handicap stall in the men's room. Wow! They must have really felt the urgent need to pee, and didn't think they would have time to enter the restroom via the normal route.
Just think. We also share the ROAD with those folks, and not just retail store parking lots. Yikes.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 4, 2019 10:37:00 GMT -5
Something I really don't look forward to, giving up driving. Barb prefers to drive when we are in town especially at night. She prefers to have me drive on the Thruway. I prefer that also since I think she follows too closely. In a sort of related note, I got onto the arterial Wednesday afternoon. I was accelerating on the on ramp and then had to stand on my brakes because the cars in front of me were stopped. I blamed it on some old guy chickening out instead of merging. Now I think this was the cause: www.wktv.com/content/news/Car-chase-ensues-as-police-investigate-shots-fired-in-Utica-562003781.html |
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Post by Clipper on Oct 4, 2019 11:38:23 GMT -5
Probably so CB. It is hard to believe that people actually drive at such high speeds on local streets with other traffic. Not long ago our local cops chased a suspected drug offender down our Volunteer Parkway. The parkway is the main 4 lane thoroughfare through the other side of Bristol and is Rt US11. It passes through a commercial district as well as residential, and has numerous cross streets and traffic lights. The news said that the chase exceeded 90mph at times.
I hate it when I am merging onto I-81 and someone stops on the merging traffic lane. That lane when it pertains to an interstate is usually fairly long and is called "the acceleration lane." Popel are guilty of stopping in that lane, and the other guilty parties are those that don't move to the other lane was they are passing and on ramp. I move over whenever it is feasible to allow traffic to enter the intersate. It is simple courtesy.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 4, 2019 12:20:36 GMT -5
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Post by BHU on Oct 5, 2019 16:24:08 GMT -5
Probably so CB. It is hard to believe that people actually drive at such high speeds on local streets with other traffic. Not long ago our local cops chased a suspected drug offender down our Volunteer Parkway. The parkway is the main 4 lane thoroughfare through the other side of Bristol and is Rt US11. It passes through a commercial district as well as residential, and has numerous cross streets and traffic lights. The news said that the chase exceeded 90mph at times. I hate it when I am merging onto I-81 and someone stops on the merging traffic lane. That lane when it pertains to an interstate is usually fairly long and is called "the acceleration lane." Popel are guilty of stopping in that lane, and the other guilty parties are those that don't move to the other lane was they are passing and on ramp. I move over whenever it is feasible to allow traffic to enter the intersate. It is simple courtesy. I saw the exact same thing you described today on the north - south arterial. A minivan stopped on the e ntrance ramp up near ConMed. I quickly moved into the passing lane it being a minivan. Probably 90% of drivers that I encounter behind the wheel of those things have no idea what the hell they're doing. I actually avoid them whenever I can. |
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