I can park here....right?

When I wrote this I was driving my son who is afraid to learn how to drive (can you blame him, even if he is 22!) to a small town college so that he can learn a trade that the navy failed to teach him. They taught him nothing in the 2 years he was in, except how to get out early! But I digress..........

As we drove the 29 miles from door to door I had to figure out ways to either kill time in the other small town I don't live in or waste the gas to drive all the way back home, then back to the school again, and home once more.  So I discovered coffee shops, donut shops, etc  Places to kill the time while waiting him to finish school every day. 

One day after I picked him up we drove to the nearest intersection to make a left hand turn to take the drive home.  This particular intersection is huge, with the cars in the lane next to us also able to make a left hand turn. Yes, 2 lanes out of the 8 at this intersection able to make a left hand turn. In front of us is a large truck so I'm unable to see the light when it changes, next to us is a small 2 door truck. We arrived at the light just as it finished letting the former cars go through it.  So were having a conversation about his day. We look over and the women gets out of the small truck next to us, shuts the door and walks behind my car and across 3 more lanes of traffic going in the other direction.  She smiles and crosses to the 7-11.  Her truck is just left sitting there, no flashers on, and she's the first one in her lane to supposedly go through the turn light when it changes.  My son and I look at each other and her and are just dumbfounded.

The headrests in her truck are high enough that if you are behind her, you can't tell  if there is nobody in the drivers seat.  The flashers are on, but people behind her don't know she's left her car sitting there alone, IN THE MIDDLE OF A TURN LANE IN A VERY BUSY INTERSECTION.  We keep watching as the cars pile up behind her truck and then the light changes.  We are able to go, but we have no way to tell the people behind us they CAN'T go.  I can see in my right side mirror the cars getting closer to hers and then NOT going anywhere as we turn the corner. 

So here's the thing....she appeared to have a cell phone in her hand.  She LEFT the car, just left it.  Why not sit in the car, use the cell, turn on the flashers, or at least ask the people in the next car to call 911 if your car is broken, be there to wave people around the broken down car, but don't friggin abandon it!!  Crazy!