Attention Pedestrians, get the f*** outta the way Options

[impala454]

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I have noticed a disturbing trend towards the "my shit don't stink" kinda pedestrians out there. People will walk right down the middle of a street, then give you a dirty look or act like you did them wrong by honking at them or driving quickly around them. People will walk in the middle of the motherf'n parking lot row at the store, as if they didn't even know you were there. Or when you stop in front of the store as you're pulling in, you let some pedestrians cross, and they walk as slow as possible, not giving a shit that you're waiting on them.

I was at a sonic the other day, put my truck in reverse and was about to leave, looked back and one of the employees is standing about 5 feet behind my truck, along with one of her friends. they're just standing there, having a conversation with another employee who's across the parking lot. I back up a foot or so, so they see that I'm trying to leave. The girl looks back, sees me, then just continues on her conversation for another 15 seconds or so, then begins to walk away, I naturally am pretty pissed by now and back up fairly quickly to show my displeasure. The girls were at least 5-6 feet away from the truck by then, but her little friend still felt compelled to knock the window of my truck w/her keys! I rolled the window down and exchanged words, and the employee started bitchin at me sayin she's a pedestrian and I almost hit her. i noted the bitch's name and of course filed a complaint with sonic corporate. but still, WTF?!? I probably would have just let it go and brushed it off had the stupid bitch not hit my f'n window. people have no f'n common courtesy anymore at all. I suppose courtesy aint so common nowadays.
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[zetec]

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I have noticed a disturbing trend towards the "my shit don't stink" kinda pedestrians out there. People will walk right down the middle of a street, then give you a dirty look or act like you did them wrong by honking at them or driving quickly around them. People will walk in the middle of the motherf'n parking lot row at the store, as if they didn't even know you were there. Or when you stop in front of the store as you're pulling in, you let some pedestrians cross, and they walk as slow as possible, not giving a shit that you're waiting on them.

I was at a sonic the other day, put my truck in reverse and was about to leave, looked back and one of the employees is standing about 5 feet behind my truck, along with one of her friends. they're just standing there, having a conversation with another employee who's across the parking lot. I back up a foot or so, so they see that I'm trying to leave. The girl looks back, sees me, then just continues on her conversation for another 15 seconds or so, then begins to walk away, I naturally am pretty pissed by now and back up fairly quickly to show my displeasure. The girls were at least 5-6 feet away from the truck by then, but her little friend still felt compelled to knock the window of my truck w/her keys! I rolled the window down and exchanged words, and the employee started bitchin at me sayin she's a pedestrian and I almost hit her. i noted the bitch's name and of course filed a complaint with sonic corporate. but still, WTF?!? I probably would have just let it go and brushed it off had the stupid bitch not hit my f'n window. people have no f'n common courtesy anymore at all. I suppose courtesy aint so common nowadays.
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I saw some mexican chick walking across the street, some car literally slammed on it's brakes and screeched to a halt 4 inches in front of her (she's crossing an intersection with a green light) locking up all their brakes trying not to kill her stupid ass and end up in jail.

She flicked the driver off.



By the same token though, having worked at Sonic, it's generally considered common courtesy to wait for any carhops behind you to get out of the way and always yield to them. At least once or twice a year some asshole mows down a carhop (and not by backing up over them; by speeding out of the fucking parking lot and not having room to brake). However, a carhop just standing behind a car chillin isn't really doing their fucking job in the first place, and I can think of positively no reason a carhop should be chillin behind a car aside from picking up trash, so that bitch probably deserved it. One thing I've noticed is that all the Sonics in LBK are run by white trash piece of shit asshats that don't give a fuck and couldn't make more than $30 in tips a day if their fucking life depended on it. (Sad, even by sonic standards) That and the LBK locations are dirty and slow as shit.

For the record, all (with the exception of the two or three corporate stores) of the sonics in Collin County (owned by Dennis Clark -- he has like 35 fucking sonics) consistently get rated in the top 50 stores nationwide, and most of them place in the top 20 in the Dr. Pepper Sonic Games every year. (Think Sonic Olympics)

Just stay away from the sonic off of Preston in Frisco. They're corporate, and consistently score 29 or worse on their health inspections (30 is failing.)

edit: and employees aren't supposed to touch the cars unless asked.

This post has been edited by zetec: May 31 2007, 01:16 PM