Crazy People Encounters

[Mark The Homer]

I was inspired to make this thread after seeing the "Crazy Animal Encounters" thread - I wanted to tell this quick story and trying to figure out the best place to put it. Others may have crazy people encounters they'd like to share.

It's last Saturday around noon. June 21st. Safeway is pretty busy. I'm in the parking lot trying to leave. I'm in the vehicle aisle closest and parallel to Spartan Rd. But there's a vehicle at the front of the aisle, centered in the aisle. It's two vehicles in front of me. So that makes a line of three cars. But the lead driver is not moving.

At first I thought the vehicle was waiting for traffic to clear, but that was not the problem. It's clear, they can move, the main vehicle aisle in front of the store is wide open. But the vehicle doesn't move.

Quite a while passes and nothing is happening. Finally, the guy in front of me, who had previously positioned his vehicle behind her and to the left of her so that she can see his vehicle in both the rear mirror and the left side mirror, beeps his horn. He's stuck there because I'm behind him and she's in front of him, not moving. And so he taps his horn and we wait. Nothing. More time passes.

I then beep my horn twice. Nothing. The vehicle is not moving. More time passes.

It's clear the vehicle has no intention of moving any time soon. So we are stuck there.

I finally put my vehicle in Park and put the emergency brake on. I open my drivers side door. I get out of the car, which takes time because I'm old, you know. I amble my way past the car in front of me and finally arrive at the drivers side of the vehicle at the front of the line which refuses to move. The car still sits there, blocking the entire vehicle aisle. I knock on the window. The female driver turns her head. She looks at me. She rolls down the window a couple inches and gives me a blank stare. No emotion. No surprise, no irritation, no happiness, no anger, no sadness. Nothing. I ask her "What are you doing? There are cars waiting to exit. They can't exit because you won't move!" I motion to the area behind her vehicle, showing the line of cars behind her - all of them stuck like a NYC traffic jam. She continues to stare at me. No emotion. Nothing. Finally, a young woman, possibly her daughter, opens the passenger side door and enters the vehicle. I don't know where she came from. Possibly shopping? The driver rolls up her window and leaves.

I've lived here 40 years and I've never seen anything like this.

 

[Ashburn Dave]

I've stopped honking at people nowadays. The last time I honked at someone, they pretty much road raged me for the next 10 minutes.

I'm still waiting to experience a 'Karen in the wild'. I've watched many YouTube's of these wild creatures, and I believe I could handle one of those beasties coming at me.

 

[SkinsOrlando]

Mark, I think that's more common than you think. Here where the "high off their own flatulence folks" or "maybe don't know decency folks" will jam up traffic so that the person shopping doesn't have to walk to the parking lot, this has happened during busy times especially at grocery stores. At my local Publix (FL thing) between 4-6pm it's almost daily, I'll drive 8 miles out of my way to the other one somewhat nearby to avoid it.

 

[Mark The Homer]

I've heard of people doing that. People complain about the Gaithersburg Costco. Some of them drive to the Frederick Costco just to avoid the Gaithersburg Costco.

 

[SkinsOrlando]

I've heard of people doing that. People complain about the Gaithersburg Costco. Some of them drive to the Frederick Costco just to avoid the Gaithersburg Costco.

Costco's are either chill in CFL or a freaking example of how humanity should not behave, Mrs.SO drives to one an hour out instead of the one 20 minutes away because it's a freaking war zone from the parking lot until you check out.

 

[SkinsFTW]

Great idea for a thread and I'm thinking that this might turn out to be pretty entertaining.

 

[Boone]

Costco's are either chill in CFL or a freaking example of how humanity should not behave, Mrs.SO drives to one an hour out instead of the one 20 minutes away because it's a freaking war zone from the parking lot until you check out.

I love Costco but I get anxiety the minute I enter one. People just seem to get aggressive in that store. I think there are aspects of the shopping experience that lend itself to making people aggressive and grumpy. From showing your member ID ('papers') just to get in the place, then the multiple registers but no clear lines (it's a free for all to get to the least busy one, and then there's the exit Gestapo who do everything but pat you down to ensure you aren't walking out with something that's not on your receipt.

I love the product selection. But the shopping process is thoroughly unenjoyable. I probably won't renew my membership as it's a bit of a drive and I have a local butcher where I can now get just about anything I would have had to drive to Costco for a few years ago.

 

[Chris]

I would enjoy wholesale stores more if there weren’t a cadre of folk who push around a cart with one item in it to use the sample offerings as a free lunch.

 

[Ashburn Dave]

I love Costco but I get anxiety the minute I enter one. People just seem to get aggressive in that store. I think there are aspects of the shopping experience that lend itself to making people aggressive and grumpy. From showing your member ID ('papers') just to get in the place, then the multiple registers but no clear lines (it's a free for all to get to the least busy one, and then there's the exit Gestapo who do everything but pat you down to ensure you aren't walking out with something that's not on your receipt.

I love the product selection. But the shopping process is thoroughly unenjoyable. I probably won't renew my membership as it's a bit of a drive and I have a local butcher where I can now get just about anything I would have had to drive to Costco for a few years ago.

I wonder how much of this is an age thing. Costco used to be my favorite store, but I can't even stand the parking lot nowadays. I'm now in my senior years so I don't enjoy large crowds like I used to.

 

[skinsmarydu]

Parking lots anywhere are a damn nightmare anymore. Just fuckin' nutty people that can't drive, park, or walk properly. Had to lay on the horn for a guy to move out of the parking spot I was trying to pull into (he was just standing there, doing something on his phone ).
And stay off the phone in the store too...I'm shopping, not spending an afternoon navigating buggies with distracted drivers.

This thread could keep me typing for days...

 

[Chris]

I subscribe to George Carlins opinion of drivers-

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”​

 

[Mark The Homer]

I was gonna save this for later, but this thread seems to be on a roll and a holiday is coming up.

This is a new citizen of my town deliberately trashing the new state-owned road's ROAD CLOSED signs. She also threw the large orange barrels at the other end over the guard rail into the deep ravine repeatedly for five-six weeks. She did this over and over for five-six weeks until I caught her red-handed. It stopped dead after I caught her. I didn't even know who it was until this moment. caught on video Also, it's interesting that she's apparently training her young daughter in real time how to behave in society. The daughter looks to be around nine years old. It's fascinating to me how seamlessly she immediately assumes the role of the victim - and somehow, I have become the perpetrator. If you look closely, you can see she twisted and bent the legs of the road closed signs so that they won't fit correctly into the footings.

This was last summer. I now call her "the crazy lady." Because there's nothing else that can explain her behavior over the previous five-six weeks. Incredibly, I learned later that she lives three doors up from the Methodist church here in town, which is to say she lives very close to the center of our small town. There was nothing to be gained by her actions other than the thrill of destroying state property and the joy of creating chaos in our small town. It's been a year and I still can't come up with an explanation other than she's crazy.

 

[SkinsOrlando]

I do hate to say I find it amusing "I don't give you permission to record me." You're in a public communal place lady, that law doesn't apply as it's unreasonable to believe your in a private setting. Number two the license plate, it should read OFFMEDS as a better choice. Very weird Mark but some people just like to watch the world burn as Alfred once said.

 

[Ashburn Dave]

I was gonna save this for later, but this thread seems to be on a roll and a holiday is coming up.

This is a new citizen of my town deliberately trashing the new state-owned road's ROAD CLOSED signs. She also threw the large orange barrels at the other end over the guard rail into the deep ravine repeatedly for five-six weeks. She did this over and over for five-six weeks until I caught her red-handed. It stopped dead after I caught her. I didn't even know who it was until this moment. caught on video Also, it's interesting that she's apparently training her young daughter in real time how to behave in society. The daughter looks to be around nine years old. It's fascinating to me how seamlessly she immediately assumes the role of the victim - and somehow, I have become the perpetrator. If you look closely, you can see she twisted and bent the legs of the road closed signs so that they won't fit correctly into the footings.

This was last summer. I now call her "the crazy lady." Because there's nothing else that can explain her behavior over the previous five-six weeks. Incredibly, I learned later that she lives three doors up from the Methodist church here in town, which is to say she lives very close to the center of our small town. There was nothing to be gained by her actions other than the thrill of destroying state property and the joy of creating chaos in our small town. It's been a year and I still can't come up with an explanation other than she's crazy.

You are lucky that crazy lady didn't run you over. I loved her Jeep though; we're looking at buying either a Rubicon or Sahara/Willy.

 

[Ashburn Dave]

I golfed at Locust Hill out in Charles Town, WV this week and after a hot day in the sun all I wanted was to get home (Ashburn) via Rt. 7 and take a nice shower. It is a 45-minute ride and twice I was blocked by a slow driver in the left lane. Both times they paced the guy in the right lane so basically both of them went side by side. I didn't honk or flash headlights at them either. All I did was ride their bumper a little, so they knew I wanted to get by. Both of them turned into real AH's and decided to play Gandolph the Grey and pretty much told me "You shall not pass!".

Each of them kept this going for a good 10 minutes each. MF's are lucky I wasn't in my 1 ton truck or I might have pushed them out of the way.

 

[burgold]

Yesterday, I was driving down Georgia Ave. Like you, I was in the left lane when suddenly the guy in front of me decides to stop. He stops about thirty feet away from a turn off lane about a hundred yards before a traffic light. Traffic is too heavy for me to change lanes and get around him. I wait a bit and give a friendly honk. He doesn't budge. Then, about a minute later lean into my horn. He finally notices the light turning yellow and guns it. He goes through red leaving me behind.

I'm not a road rage guy, but I have no idea what this jerk was about. If he was lost or got a call or whatever... pull off the road. At the very least go into to the turn lane.

 

[Chris]

It’s amazing how the perpetrators are always the last one to make the light. Especially so on left turns lights.

 

[burgold]

It’s amazing how the perpetrators are always the last one to make the light. Especially so on left turns lights.

It really does feel intentional sometimes. Like they're out to get me.

 

[Halcyon Times]

working S Fl law enforcement. Lots of crazy people but this one sticks out as actually off meds crazy:

Disabled vehicle in the middle lane of I75. No biggie, send a community service deputy (not a full fledged cop) with yellow lights and call a wrecker.

She marks out on scene and then don’t hear from her for long enough to catch dispatch attention. Ok, I’ll head out there real quick to see what’s up.

Pull up behind her truck and she looks like she’s just kind of leaning in by the driver’s window talking to the guy. Walking up and call out to her but she doesn’t acknowledge me. Then I see that she’s got a panicked look on her face, he’s got his hands out the window and wrapped around her neck while staring off into never never land. Mind you, we’re in the middle of S Fl I-75 w traffic zooming by. He wasn’t really squeezing her neck thankfully but more like a cat holding a mouse in place.

 

[Chris]

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”