Yesterday afternoon, on the way home from work, I stopped at the Sunoco / Dunkin' Donuts on Rt 125 in Kingston NH. I believe the speed limit on this section is 45mph which means 55-60mph.
It's well traveled with all types of vehicles. This road is also quite dangerous and there have been many fatalities along it's path.
Moving on:
I filled the truck, grabbed the coffee and pulled off to the side of the parking lot to answer a couple work emails I had gotten. ( Marked in yellow ). As I'm sitting there, an SUV crossover pulls in and stops right in the entrance. (Marked in red.)
A woman gets out leaves the drivers door open, proceeds to open the rear driver's side door and grabs a backpack out of the car. At first I'm thinking is there some kind of emergency? It's a shitty place to stop given the road and the speeds and the busy Friday for this place. The weather was gray , overcast and the roads were damp.
She walks around the back of the car and opens the tailgate. So now you have a car in the entrance to a busy gas station. People trying to pull out and this woman has 2 doors and the hatch open. I should have grabbed my camera.
My direction of site is facing out of the parking lot and glimpse 3 young teens walking up the break down lane. ( Marked by the arrow )
Ok, they are probably coming from the camp ground and are headed to the store. Why their parents would think it's a great idea to let them cross that street is beyond my comprehension. Come to think of it, almost everything is that is going on lately is beyond my comprehension so it's par for the course.
Anyway, they kids bunch up at the tip of the arrow at the corner of Meeks Rd. So now there are three stationary teens on one side of the road and a car blocking , mostly, the entrance on the other.
The teens look both ways, traffic is going by in both directions on a Friday afternoon and finally someone stops.
They run across the street, which is wide. I'm glad I didn't see a different outcome.
Meanwhile, remember the idiot?
They climb in her car and she does a u-turn and heads out of the parking lot.
"Wait- Wha? What the actual fuck. You stoopid idiot" I said to myself. "Why the fuck didn't you pull into Meeks Rd. on the right hand side where the kids where already headed?"
Not only did she block the entrance, she made the 3 kids cross a busy non-divided highway.
These fucking idiots vote.
The bottom picture gives you a street level view and a car for size reference to the location.
I'm still flabbergasted.
