You gave them way too much daylight. Gotta get right next to the car to box people out.

Seriously, I don't know what it is about the strip that turns people into this. I used to work for a company down there and would occasionally have to work weekends. I hated coming out to people walking into the street in front of your car and traffic blowing through stop signs. I was glad to get out of there.

Yeah, but he turned on his FLASHERS. Clear rock-beats-scissors situation ;-)

Getting those trees is important to a mf'r

It's a bunch of entitled fucks not from the city

They drive a dodge truck, they're probably only rocking a room temp iq

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We watched a woman in a fancy Mercedes pull up to penn mac on Christmas Eve put her flashers on and just walk in leaving her car to block half the road .

As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the few legitimate grounds for road rage. But, like (for legal purposes), don't assault anyone, just make a Seinfeld episode out of it

I would’ve got and said something lmao

Edit: unsure why this is getting downvoted Lmao. You’re just going to let someone take your spot??

I deliver for Uber eats and for a nanosecond I considered doing this to pick up an order early last week. I decided not to be a jag, sucked it up, and parked many blocks away. But, I declined all orders originating from the Strip for the remainder of the week.

I would of pulled in head first to block him. What a jerk.

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It's supposed to be could've, should've, would've (short for could have, would have, should have), never could of, would of, should of.

Or you misspelled something, I ain't checking everything.

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To be fair, the strip probably would not survive with out them.

That said, gtfo Penn ave if you can’t confidently parallel park every time. Find a garage. The one above that duck pin bowling whatever place always has spots on the roof and it’s like $3.

I never get sick of watching Pittsburgh drivers being the worst humans imaginable

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I would bet money this person just wants to grab "a couple" things.

A couple meaning - running into 4 stores and 25 things later.

This is basically ALL of the East End nowadays. Suburban visitors rushing in to a shop and parking however & wherever they want.

I'm shocked that they parked in a real spot instead of stopping in the middle of the road or pulling up onto the curb right in front of wherever they want to be

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Yea this is 100 percent on you. Had days to pull in and mark your spot before he backed up.

He's an asshole, but so are you.

When this BS happens to me, the cops are coming.

On a determined bud run as dispensary is right there

of course he's driving a truck. He's a moron

And then walk down to Wholey's for a quart of bisque

It gets worse. A lot worse.

Like Paris on a Friday afternoon worse. That was my introduction to overseas driving and it made me appreciate Pittsburgh driving.

... and to boot, the douchebag can't even parallel park! SMH

Savage!!

Typical Dodge Ram driver

Unless they have changed it I hated not knowing where the order is good. Suddenly, one more quick trip when some weird orders $10 worth of nuggets to be delivered for $30 45 minutes away in the middle of nowhere completely away from city

They definitely view bike lanes as free parking daily

There’s like 3 consecutive open spots on the other side of the street that the bothayinz ignore.

People who park on Penn Avenue typically aren't the kind of people who like walking more than 20 feet from their car to their destination.

They tell you the cross streets for where it’s going and show a map of the route, but if where it’s going is really far, it doesn’t fit on the map. I decline those. I ended up in Emsworth once.

Wow, even the dude in the truck can probably spell “would have” better than you.

Well that’s a bunch of horse shit. I’m sorry, people are such asshats.

I have found that no matter where in the country I’ve lived, men who drive white trucks seem to be the worst society has to offer. It’s not my opinion, it’s seriously experiences I’ve had or witnessed. So bizarre. Surely there are kind people in white trucks! But alas, I have little hope.

Ah good to know they made it a little better. Before it wouldn’t give any indication

The fuck? Typical F150 gang (I know it's not an F150 but the mentality seems to be the same amongst many truck owners).

I call it "F150 Gang."

I know this isn't an F150, but F150's are the most sold truck, and many owners of trucks seem to act like this. Whether it is speeding crazily on various roads or just generally being dicks, the F150 Gang can be pretty obnoxious. Seemingly taking over for BMW drivers in roadway entitlement.

No, that's a wheelchair spot and something else. You can pull it up on maps. (But it if hard to see in the video)

Typical Ram 1500 driver showing that they buy the truck because it has the biggest number on it. Those trucks are such a drag on society and we'd be better off without them.

The Dodge ram is the Altima of trucks

Yeah but you were back too far 😂

Yup. Bike lanes, in front of your driveway, conjestest the alleys... It just continues all the way down to Garfield. And even that area is starting to get a lot of " the weekenders"

"Weekenders- Those who come & visit on the weekends, evenings, or bop in a shop and feel entitled to do whatever they feel like. Typically the further from the city they live, the worse the entitlement gets.

I started an ig (@bikelaneparking) of my daily loop less than a month ago of taking pictures of them on my daily loop and average about 5 per ride. Twice I have interacted with city cops that have just shrugged it off.

Reporting them with dashcam for your bike app (@dashcambike) is really the only effective way to for pgh DOMI to get a picture of how bad it is. You don't need to be on a bike to report it. And it automatically feeds into the Pittsburgh DOMI database.

But yeah the drivers in this city have really become progressively worse this winter in the "just gonna be a few minutes" leaving their car double parked in the road, bike lane, or in a loading zone etc. And it's almost always on Penn Avenue or Smallman in the strip. Negley and Brighton are two other really bad spots as well.

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Why did you stop two car lengths behind the car pulling out? Thats way too much space to leave. Maybe that’s why the white truck didn’t think you were pulling into that space.

Honestly, I’m not giving the white pickup ANY credit, but when you queue over a car length’s behind the exiting vehicle, it’s hard to distinguish if you’re taking the space or just pulled over to the side waiting, even if you have your signal on. People do the latter all the time in the strip.

You are one of the very few who don’t just block traffic.

Always some fvckin @sshole in a gotdamned pickup.

I’m willing to bet a pretty penny someone driving a Ram pickup is not from the city of Pittsburgh. Also, hold your tongue before visiting Philly.

Calling the cops because you lost a parking space lmao

I doubt it. I have (reluctantly) had to go to the Strip on the weekends. Store absolutely packed with people, no one in the check out line. I usually go weekly on Wednesdays, it's much saner.

almost as bad as the entitled fucks FROM the city

Big dumb pick-up truck doing big dumb pick-up truck things.

There is no reason anyone needs to be driving on this street imo

This one is on you. Nothing you did made it clear that you were waiting for that spot. Even when he swooped in, you did nothing.

Some people are just so oblivious to their surroundings it’s annoyingly frustrating!!!! Grrr. But at least he used his 4ways to back up and the parallel parking was a good job. But you were in the right.

👆Come check it out everyone! Here’s one now!!

Fuck that. I doubt it.

Someone defending Philly drivers. Hard, weird flex on the Pgh subreddit.

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This person is rocking freezing temp IQ for not scooting in that spot before the truck backed in. Complete lack of reflexes and initiative.

That sucks, but they were giving up so much room that the truck probably didn't realize they were waiting for the spot. Truck went about his day without a second thought, while this guy was frustrated enough to spend time hours afterwards editing and uploading dashcam footage onto the internet. Sometimes you just gotta let things go for peace of mind.

To be honest I’m a terrible parallel parker in a car. I can do it on big ass boats though Lolol.

You’ve clearly never left Pittsburgh you bum ass jag off!

You’re not wrong. OP has zero balls and deserves to get walked on.

Nah, it’s just a nuts vs lack of nuts situation. I would have done the same thing to OP in my car.

Right the moment I would’ve realized that the truck was taking the spot I would’ve just went into the spot at an angle until he left lmao

YES! Plenty of room to do that. If OP is driving a car there would be no need to even parallel park. Look at all that room. Just zoom in there and give the dodge guy a big smile.

This seems like a pretty common occurrence here

No no…. Not bc of the loss of the space.. bc of what I would start screaming at this jag.

that’s when you pull up next to the spot duhh

And I bet when they starting driving again they didn’t check any of their mirrors, just rolled out

So F'n true! Well, ya see, I have a TRucK, so I do what I want, no turn signals needed, no fucks given, it's just me an' my emotional support vehicle.

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I dunno I usually prefer not to get into fender benders over parking spaces as well

To each their own!

A serious tradgedy is about to happen w drivers doing whatever they want. Racing through the residential areas to find free parking and then leaving after having a few. I've seen many cars hit cars.

I witnessed a couple w a child try to cross Butler at the lightless crosswalk last Friday. 3 cars actually sped up rather than let them cross safely. Finally a car from each (edit) *direction stopped and let them cross. Its scary that bikers and pedestrians are not safe in their own neighborhoods. Or even those coming to visit.

That area should be car free. The Strip is a jewel. Create a Park n Ride. Car Heads rioting in 3,2,1..

With all the parking on smallman near the terminal I never try on Penn anymore

There ain’t no way 😠

I'm not from the city, and usually defend the blame game on "suburburbanites from Cranberry with their McMansions and pickup trucks" but 100% this jag is from the suburbs, and and entitled needle-dick.

I can’t wait to know what driving in Berlin is like this summer

Never drove in Berlin, but it can't be as bad as Paris was. I'm in Abu Dhabi right now and Abu Dhabi is also worse than Pittsburgh, but not too much worse.

Mostly its the roundabouts that irritate. Not the roundabout itself, but the fact that I seem to be the only person in the entire country who knows how roundabouts work. Like a gun in the innermost lane of the roundabout deciding he wants to exit to the outermost lane of one of the exits so he cuts across two lanes of traffic at the exit and barely misses people who are still moving.

You need a life

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