I hate parking lots...

I hate parking lots...

The one at Albertsons, in specific. I swear that place is a death trap! Several years ago in the early morning hours, I went to the store to pick up a newspaper and some donuts and juice for a breakfast treat for the kids. I was attempting to leave, was half way out of my parking spot and this car full of old people back out and rear end my rear end. Of course, it's all my fault because they were there first because they were older than I. How the fuck does that work? I didn't have insurance at the time, and my car was repoed shortly thereafter... Anyhow, flash forward to yesterday, about 7 years later. Same parking lot. Near the same parking spot even! My sister and I had just finished a shopping trip (something not done often at this particular store because of said parking lot) and we're trying to leave. We wind up sitting in our parking spot for about 3 minutes in reverse, moved about 3 feet from where we started, because 2 different people want our spot and are coming from opposite directions and both refuse to move so we can back out. In the meantime, 2 other people, in the spots opposite us (behind us) also would like to leave. So finally both people in the lane move a little bit so I can start backing my van out. (If I'd had a compact car, it wouldn't have been an issue so much.) So here I am, 3/4 out of my parking spot once again, and the person opposite me decides they're going to leave as well, start backing out and almost hit me! I was honking my horn trying to get their attention and they must have been backing w/o looking at all because they were inches from my ass end by the time they stopped. So we finally get out of the space and are trying to head out and the lady who'd pulled in from the direction we were trying to head was in the middle of the lane, and I couldn't pass on either side because of the width of my van. So she had to pull back even further to be able to let me through. When I finally got out of there, I was sooooo friggin happy and vowed never to go there again. I'll drive the couple miles to the other Albertsons should I decide I need to go to that store in the future! It's absolute insanity!!!!!