Life creates many awkward scenarios. When I park at the gym, I park at a curbed spot near a trail. Sometimes, I come back to my car, and there are 20+ women standing around it. So I just say good morning, I need to back out. Usually they are nice and will move out of the way. There was one time no response.
Yesterday, they moved the gathering to the normal part of the parking lot. So they are standing in 1/2 of the travel lane. A woman made eye contact, and did not even move at all. She was in the left half of a one way lane. There were no cars parked in spaces to my right, so I just carefully and slowly drove to my right.
These are the everyday scenarios where imho we have to not get upset. I would say people should not be standing in lanes where cars drive, they are wrong. But in reality, they do it, better to adapt. And be careful. People have been struck and killed in this parking lot--there's no way anyone gets up and says I'll go to the gym this morning and if anyone is in the way I may just run them over. No way anyone says that. Yet, it happens.
As mentioned, my dad used a term, "dead right." He told me as a kid maybe 8, to be flexible, you don't want to be right, but dead....
