Paying Attention - A Lost Art

I see a lot of really awful driving here.  A lot of drivers seem incapable of paying attention and driving.  However today was just that step too far.  I was waiting for my bus.  The bus stop is opposite the recycling yard where people get rid of all sorts of stuff.  

There is nearly always a queue - sensible idea in the days of social distancing.  Most people are nearly considerate - they wait their turn in their cars, parking half on the pavement and half on the road - this means that traffic can flow normally.  Ok they park half on the pavement which makes it impossible for anyone with a kid's buggy to get past - like I said "nearly considerate".

The entry to the yard is about 20 meters from a busy junction and because there is a traffic island, keeping that space open by parking half on the pavement is really important.

Not to Kapitän Pimmelkopf in his Mercedes though.  There was a queue of 4 cars waiting to get in.  Kapitän Pimmelkopf just drove up to the nearest car, switched his indicator on - indicating he wanted to enter the yard.  And completely blocking the road for all traffic that wanted to use the street.  From all sides of the crossroads.

He sat there ignoring everyone else - use your horn - he doesn't care, he wants in to the yard.  If he was to consider other road users, he'd be thinking about other people but he has a MERCEDES.  Plus he has to check his mobile phone now.  I was waiting for 5 minutes and he just sat there.  Not a care in the world, checking his phone and probably wondering why people just didn't let him in....  It forced drivers to use the wrong side of the street to pass him.  And some of them weren't too clever either. And why were people sounding their horns?  Must be an Arschloch somewhere...

There was.  Sat in his huge Mercedes.  Never heard of the verb "aufpassen" - never needed to use it.  You, sir, are my Arschloch des Jahres.

That was a rant.  But I really needed to vent.