4 way gridlock at a two way stop this morning at a generic single lane residential road near the school as some major idiot in their BMW sedan wouldn't drive their clear side of the road because there were parked cars and a school bus stopped at the stop sign the opposite way. I was a few cars behind the bus watching this unfold. There was enough room for a Yukon to get through but she was absolutely sure her BMW was 15' wide and was going to scrape both the bus and parked cars all the way down. The bus couldn't go because it was turning right and didn't have the radius since the curb lane was all blocked with construction pylons for no construction.
Everyone turning right and left to head our way sat until it was 30 cars deep until people finally started waving this idiot through. A couple could have walked, holding hands, around her car.
Then, finally the bus makes the turn and now and the rest of the cars move up to the stop sign. The car, one of those super little hatchbacks moves so far over from the pylons, scared that they're going to jump up and attack her, that no one turning in behind BMW can even fit between her and the parked cars so they're stuck in the intersection. She was further over than the edge of the bus was. What a riot!
Now two cars are in the intersection waiting for her to move, while 30 cars are backed up way. But hatchback lady won't go, because she has the stop sign and the other road has the right of way. She's so clueless that she's now the cause of the gridlock continuing. Finally everyone starts honking and waving out their windows. Epic stuff.
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