As others have said, if someone was 'waiting' for my spot, I'd demist, retune my radio correctly to all four stations, probably reset my trip computer, reset my dial lights....... you get the idea.
No need for it, get over yourself.
"get over yourself"?
What is that supposed to mean exactly? If it's a packed car park with no spaces, and you look like you're about to leave, then what's the problem with someone waiting patiently?
If you weren't planning on leaving straight away then fair enough, but why deliberately take as long as possible just for the sake of it?
Fair enough if they're being a **** and revving their engine/beeping their horn at you, but if they're just sat out of the way waiting then what are you hoping to achieve by it?
Are you always that selfish and arrogant, or just when you get behind the wheel?
I said above that I nearly got into a lot of trouble for doing it at a very heavy populated station.
I thought I was doing other drivers a favour but nearly got arrested.
Last year my daughter was filling up at a Morrisons petrol station but her card wouldn't work.
She didn't have enough cash so rang me to go and bail her out but it would take about 30 minutes.
When I got there the car was still at the pump because the policy was not to move a car from the pump until the bill had been paid.
Strange - I had my card decide not to work after filling up once, and was given the option of either get someone to pay over the phone, or show them ID, fill in a form with my details, and come back to pay within 7 days.
Would have thought they'd have a procedure to deal with it, better than just blocking the pump and leaving the car there till it's paid.
All anecdotal really. Only real way you could determine if taxi drivers are worse drivers is by comparing accident statistics. Or fines handed out by the police for taxis vs cars.
Please tell me more about these accidents caused by, and tickets issued for "parking" in the middle of the road blocking traffic for 10 minutes waiting for your passengers, or for performing u-turns in the middle of the road, or for pulling out/changing lanes without indicating etc.
It's in a taxi drivers interest (or any other professional driver), to drive safely really, when losing their licence could cost them their livelihood.
The problem is, it's nothing to do with driving "safely" or "legally", it's perfectly possible to do both of those things with absolutely no consideration for others, an art which taxi drivers seem to have mastered beautifully!
I disagree its a lot less than 50/50 - if you are waiting to get out of a turning (in car) or cross a road (on foot) even with slow moving heavy queues where people don't really lose anything to do so other than let up for half a second to make the gap feasible to use - you will still wait quite awhile before someone will show simple consideration.
Previous job it used to get very queued back and slow moving on the main road outside and I've seen people waiting to cross who won't just push out waiting quite awhile before anyone will let them cross - personally I always just let the cars immediately at the crossing pass then just walk out even though it would upset some drivers.
EDIT: Though to be fair I bet there are a good few drivers in that situation who see you waiting to cross and are like - "if I slow down and wave them across that muppet in the car behind natting on their mobile while eating and fiddling with their makeup is going to notice too late and go into the back of me"
I have to confess I let people out a lot less frequently these days, since half the time they aren't even paying attention, so what should have involved me giving them a wave/flash and slowing down slightly to give them the space to pull out instead turns into me giving them a wave/flash whilst slowing down, them not noticing because they're too busy staring into space/at their phone/chatting to their passenger/doing their makeup, me giving them another flash/wave, them finally noticing, me having to stop, them trying to remember which pedal makes the car go, me sitting stopped in the middle of the road while they pull out with the speed of a glacier...
It's illegal to use a phone whilst operating a motor vehicle without using handsfree. Therefore I'd like to believe you weren't suggesting they were just sat there with the engine running whilst on the phone using handsfree and not moving...that would just be silly if they were!
Why would that be silly? Being on the phone affects your driving, hands-free or not.
