Barnes&Noble always has a busy parking lot. So yesterday I found a spot and went in to browse. When I came out to leave, I put the truck in Drive and was about to let my foot off the brake when this woman in an Accord driving one-handed with a cell phone in her ear whips in front of me, and parks in the hash lines, which of course is not a legal parking spot. She sees me and continues to gab on the phone while sipping a beverage out of a paper cup. I glare, she looks at me, and ignores me. I blow the horn and mouth out to her while motioning "That is not a parking spot!" She gives me a quizzical look like "Wha?" So I blow the horn some more because I want to leave and this woman waves at me while continuing to talk on that damn phone. I lay on the horn and she ignores me once more, so I get out of my truck and walk over to her car. She puts down the window. I said "Ma'am, this is not a parking spot. See these hash lines?" She answers "What? We park here all the time. Look at that car over there!"
From somewhere across the parking lot we hear "Yeah, and they're wrong too!"
I say "Could you please back up?" She says "Oh my God!" and puts her window back up, all the while still talking on the cell phone and sipping from her cup. I get back in my truck, expecting her to move from the illegal spot so I can proceed... but she just sits there, gabbing. So... I get out of my truck and head back into the store to get a manager to make her ass move.
The manager comes outside with me. Her car is gone. But there is an old Expedition, unoccupied, parked in the exact same illegal spot! WTF??? :AH-HA_wink: So I backed out and left.