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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Just spend sometime in any Publix, Lowes, or Home Depot parking lot...
People simply step off the curb, without looking for oncoming traffic...
Their head is usually buried in their phone...
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
How true! Those white grid lines don't protect you from a car with an inattentive or reckless driver, as one often sees in any of the big store parking lots around here.
Some months back I remember reading an article about three drivers at (I believe) one of the Wal-Mart stores here, all within a few yards of one another, backing out of their parking spots. The rear ends of all three cars collided. When things like that happen it pays to be extra watchful when walking near the path of any car.
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Thinking particularly of Southern Trace Publix but perhaps true for other stores, there are often structures in front of the stores that obscure persons walking out of the store directly into the roadway and not looking. This makes it pretty difficult for drivers even to anticipate that someone oblivious might be stepping out.