You can have all the laws in the world. If the police don't or can't enforce them then they are pointless.

Similar to what RM said I see kids all the time doing wheelies, swerving, lane splitting, and riding 4 wide. We get kids from surrounding towns as well due to our proximity to the beach, so it's extra bad.

I lay a huge amount of blame on the parents for not only buying them, but not enforcing any rules.

Most cops hate those fn things as much as the discussion here, so they tend -- generically speaking -- to be happy enough to enforce stuff when the opportunity arises.

YMMV, locations, etc

I think my wife had a heart attack when she saw the Chick-fil-A in the Philly airport serves Pepsi instead of Coke.

Good God Man...

We still have E-bikes around but we also have the electric scooters flying up and down every sidewalk. Oh and I can't forget the ever present middle schoolers driving golf carts throughout the subdivision.

I needed a parking spot, and I saw a guy get into his car, so I got in a position to enter his space and turned my blinker on. And he just stayed and stayed in his car. I eventually moved on.

This was not the first time I've had someone just not move when the get in their car. What is up with that? When I get into my car, I plug in my phone and go. What are people doing that takes up so much time?

Could be checking their phone/text/email/etc, could be waiting for a msg that determines their next destination, could be deciding their next destinatin, could just be taking a mental pause before dealing with driving, any number of things.

I won't generally do it in a super busy parking lot for any extended time but it's really not THAT uncommon for me to take 5 (or 10) before starting the car.

Sorry.

I am definitely the guy who will go wait in the car as opposed to waiting in places that I have grown weary of or knowing that the process of leaving someplace will be more extensive that I feel is necessary but it is not worth fighting for. Recently, my wife, son and I went clothes shopping right before school after which we were going to the movies and dinner. Once the clothes were selected for purchase and I saw there was a line about 10 deep for two cashiers, I headed to the car. I will tell people that might see me going to the car that I am not leaving immediately. I used to just leave the spot and park in a place where I could see them leaving the store and pick them up by the door but I have found that drivers in 2025 are a bit confused as to what to do when someone has their flashers on in those situations.

I do think there's an etiquette piece here that if somebody is waiting for your spot and the parking lot is clearly full or close to full and there are people circling that you would move your car in that situation. Maybe that's just me being overly British, but at that point I'd be happy to be the one that circles and/or sit there with hazards on so somebody who needs the spot can take it.

If there's a ton of spaces and it's just a guy who wants to park a bit closer to the store or inexplicably seems to want this spot when there are a ton of others, then yeah I think it's a bit more of a different story.

If there is a 1% chance that the parking lot is full, it is highly unlikely for me to be in that parking lot. The exception is if I have come to be entertained by the foolery of an old school Black Friday shopper. I am almost exclusively an off peak times consumer. As far as etiquette goes, like I said, if I see someone waiting when I get in the car I will let them know to find another spot if I am not going anywhere. If I am leaving I will do so without too much delay. But if someone is in the next row over and just so happen to see me getting in the car, I don't think I have a requirement to get out of the car to let them know to find another spot.

I get the frustration that comes from not being able to find a parking spot and not getting what you thought was a soon to be available spot. Yes, circumstances like time and place matter. But I can think of many reasons why I have probably been seen getting in the car and have people assume I am leaving and that not be the case. Given the amount of time we spend in our cars in general, everything that can be accomplished business and otherwise while just sitting in the car and our car being the one safe space we may have at the time, I am not sure that the you can just assume that a person getting into the driver's seat means that person is definitely leaving that parking spot immediately any more unless it is a parking space that has a time limit attached.