Last week, I was driving through my apt. complex trying to get to my reserved space.
There's a guy with a pickup and a motorcycle which he parks in the 1 space and he had backed his pickup completely out of his space to get his bike out.
But this blocked my path to my space. It wasn't the only path, but the alternate was inconvenient and out of the way.
I didn't honk or anything - didn't want to deal with it, so I just sheepishly took the alternate path.
He could easily have moved his bike without moving his truck, IMO - just walk or ride it up on the sidewalk to an empty space and leave.
His motorcycle is obnoxiously loud and the fact that he parks both his bike and his pickup in 1 space means his pickup sticks out into the right of way a couple of feet.
This morning, I had just pulled out and was about to light a cigarette. Normally, I just slow down to do this, but today I noticed he was about to back out, so I actually stopped just long enough to get the thing lit - yeah, just to see how he liked being momentarily blocked.
He honked, I finished lighting my cigarette, flipped him off and went on my way. (So pbuttive aggressive of me, wasn't it?).
All in all, he delayed me more than I delayed him and he honked at 7AM, while I'm sure many residents were still sleeping.
I was really tempted to put aside the pbuttive portion of it and stop while I waited for the gates to open, but he was going so slow, I couldn't even see him behind me (and there is only 1 exit). Then driving down the highway, I thought about putting a note on his windshield asking him if he went to school to learn to be such an butthole or if it just came with driving an obnoxiously loud bike or an obnoxiously big vehicle.
(If you ever have to deal with me, 7AM is NOT the time to do it - I'm hardly ever in a good mood that early.)
By the time I got back home, I didn't feel like being an butthole myself by putting a note on his car.
SR 3, Virginia, AgainSo I'm driving along at 62. Car comes hauling up on me quite a bit faster. I move over to let him pbutt (first mistake.) He pbuttes and... slows down to...
But I'm wondering what others think - I mean he was only delayed about 3 seconds before he honked. He had no reason to believe I was being pbuttive aggressive. All in all, he was only delayed about 5 seconds. I spent about 10 times that amount detouring for his convenience last week.
I think I will put that note on his car. I'm sick to rest of loud bikes and oversized vehicles.
Maybe I won't - I'm pretty tired right now, and doing such things provides little satisfaction anyway.