People are idiots and assume you see them when you dont
Some years ago here in Atlanta some moronic busybody woman set out to prove that pedestrians had the right of way by walking out into traffic on places like peachtree street. Defying the laws of chance as far as I know she never got run over, but what a completely idiotic thing to do. If anyone deserved to get flattened it was her.
I’m anal about that stuff in lots. If there’s a herd (kids) with some driver near me when I’m backing out or pulling into a stall or turning with a lot of pockets and invisible areas I ask if they’re all accounted for.
I came withing inches of backing over a small child in a parking lot..
A man passed my car as I was backing out,he was looking at his smart phone.
After he passed me I started to back out and I saw the very top of the head of what was a 3 year old boy.
This man was walking through a busy parking lot,looking down at his phone,with a small child FOLLOWING him. Who the hell does that?
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