"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>>
>> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
>> news:uC1wj.20633$T8.2010@trnddc03...
>>>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.
>>
>> That is sad. A couple of months ago, I was backing out at the grocery
>> store
>> when another car started to back up and could have possibly hit me. I
>> honked. They stopped, turned around looked at me and began to back up
>> more.
>> I honked again. They repeated the procedure. I laid on the horn.
>> People
>> turned around and looked. Car still continued to back up rather quickly.
>> I
>> had to rocket back into my parking space or I would have been hit. I
>> couldn't believe it and neither could my daughter. Left me shaking
>> because
>> I had to move so quickly to avoid being hit.
>
> Hey, it this a new thing in signage, or have I just not noticed it?
>
> A stop sign with a subsign that says cars on the cross street don't stop.
>
> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/stop.jpg
>
> Uh......for what, maybe 80 years now, hasn't STOP meant "STOP", not "STOP
> LIKE ALL OTHER DIRECTIONS ARE DOING"? The other street not stopping is
> the default, innit? Unless, of course a sign *states* "4-WAY" (but of
> course then it's not a default situation).
>
> Are we devolving into generations that think a stop sign always means
> *everybody* stops -- along with not being able to park without radar and
> not being able to shift a manual transmission?

That is a new one! Perhaps they had problems there with cars thinking it
was a four way stop? I have been guilty of doing that. Stopping when I
don't have to. I even do it at the same grocery store I mentioned above.
They have stop signs going in one direction but not the other.