I was walking across a car park. In front of me, a car started reversing. I’m pretty sure they hadn’t seen me, not a problem I was perfectly safe, so I stopped and waited. The car continued moving.
As I was waiting for the car to clear it’s parking space, a family walked past me, a mum and three kids (minimum age guess twelve) walked past me into the zone the car was reversing in to. To be honest, I was gobsmacked. Why would you walk in to a danger zone?
I am assuming that the family, especially the mum (dad not present) were utterly confident that the driver of the car would see them. I had stopped so that I did not pose a risk to the driver of hitting me. I cannot believe that the family did not see the car moving
I have to admit that I was intensely annoyed with the family, both putting themselves needlessly in danger, and presenting the driver with a real threat of injuring someone. Of course the driver did spot them and stopped. Whereas, I felt that I had stopped as a matter of courtesy to the driver, the family were clearly demonstrating either their arrogance or ignorance of a risk, There was just something about the whole scenario that incensed me almost to the point of saying something. I resisted the urge.
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