On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:02:50 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

>I was just going into a supermarket today when I heard two cars
>beeping. They were backing out simultaneously and just saw each
>other in time to avoid a collision. That happens but the next
>was weird since each seemed to consider that they had the right
>of way and wouldn't yield or go back so they beeped at each
>other for (really) two minutes until one started to make small
>moves back and forward with assistance from a gathering crowd.
>They beeped at each other after each move but finally there was
>room to go. Appropriately, both parking spaces were handicapped
>ones but I wonder if it was two cases of incipient Alzheimer's
>and really rather sad.
>

I think that as far as the law goes: the car that's backing up is
always wrong - but two wrongs don't make a right. Maybe the crowd saw
which one actually started to back out first and was helping that one.

I've never had a backing up incident, but I clearly remember waiting
*forever* for a car to back out of a parking spot only to have a car
behind me go around as if passing and go directly into the space as
soon as the backing up car cleared it. ZOOOM

Believe me, this is not a story of a dottering old fool... it happened
when I was in my twenties.

In any case, your story sounds like two handicapped bullies to me (or
more likely, they were drivers of handicapped people) - but you didn't
say how many were in each car. Don't forget that handicapped
stickers/placards and handicapped parking spaces are regularly abused.

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