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June 2, 2026 11 mins
Are Parking Lots Becoming More Dangerous? Maverick was reading a story, in which Drivers admit, they sometimes don obey all traffic laws in a parkling lot. Lulu can't belive what she sees on a daily basis. Several perople, shared intersting stories. LISTEN HERE

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I just saw this.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
The National Safety Council has talked to twenty four hundred
drivers and they wanted to find out why there were
so many accidents in parking lots.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh, that's so true, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
There are nearly two billion parking spaces in the entire US,
and twenty four hundred drivers were surveyed. The biggest reason,
no surprise, distracted driving. Even though it's a parking lot,
it's driving, and not everybody considers it driving. Two thirds
of those surveyed admitted that they themselves had been on

(00:35):
their phones while in a parking lot. Fifty percent admit
to checking or texting or looking at email, and those
also are added to people that admit to taking pictures
in parking lots of other cars, people not returning shopping carts.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know, I see a.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Lot, you're backing out, and so is somebody else at
the very same time.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's why you always back in. You don't back out,
you're back in.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Well, lot of people have backup cameras now, so it's
I'm kind of like, you don't see that, really, you
don't see that. Not everybody has a backup camera, but
a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Of vehicles do.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, I don't, but I always back in the spot,
so that's all another thing. Yeah, so you think parking
lots are dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I think they're the most dangerous place really, Yes, outside
of IFO.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Is this because of people not thinking it's real driving?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Maybe that's it, But you know, you got to consider
so many things. You have pedestrians, yes, the carts, everything,
and then people are coming in and pulling out. Then
all of a sudden they turn into the lane while
you're pulling out.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
There's so many things going on there.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
The last thing that you should be doing is being
on your phone.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
So what's the last thing that bothered you that you
saw in a parking lot? Like, was there a particular
situation or incident that really boiled your blood in a
parking lot?

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Man, Joe, I to only pick one, Well, it's the
backing out at the same time and the near missus
and then the horns blow. That happens so often. But
the other thing I can't stand is when people in
the parking lot just they do it in the lanes too.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Not just like by the front of the store.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
They just park there and let somebody out or they're
waiting for someone but people are trying to get in
and out of emergency lane. Yeah, and also just in
a regular lane, they'll wait at the front till the
person comes out and then pull.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well do you honk the horn?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
And what do they do?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Nothing like this?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Go around.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's all about you go around.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
What have you seen in a parking lot? This is
an interesting study from the National Safety Council. People interviewed
in the study said they've done stuff they shouldn't. So
people are self admitting. You're saying it's the most dangerous
place on the roads is the parking lot. But keep
people don't consider it real driving.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, I agree, that's scary.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Did you see something nuts in a parking lot? Share
it with us?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Everything everything is going on in.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
A parking lot, and parking sometimes in the parking lot
is an issue.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
And that led to a situation.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
With you, sir, how somebody parked morning?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
How are you doing? Good?

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Good?

Speaker 7 (03:04):
I wanted to tell you a little story about my
parking situation. I had a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Okay, so I pulled into parking lot at the grocery.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
Store and go inside and somebody had pulled up next
to me and had blocked the passenger side of my door.
Didn't see who it was, so I thought it'd be
funny and backed.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
My car out on the other side of the lot
and I went out.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
I surrounded their car with all the grocery carts that
were in the parking lot.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
You're good, Well, here's the bad part. A kind of
backfired on me.

Speaker 7 (03:36):
So I decided I was gonna sit in my car
and watch this person go to work at moving the
carts while I was sitting back, and I felt so bad.
It was this elderly woman who had come out and
she was using the walker and she stood there and
she started crying.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh no, So I got out and I helped her.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I didn't tell her it was me that did it.
So I did get out and I helped her all
the cars. But it was just one of those situations
where you kind of felt bad.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
Doing something to somebody that probably couldn't help the fact
that they did what they did. She probably shouldn't have
been driving anyways at her age, so.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
She parked in a way she shouldn't have parked, but
she probably shouldn't even be driving.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
She shouldn't have and she probably should have been parking.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
In the handicapped spot. But the handicapped spot that was
the other kind of kicker too. The handicapped spot was
being used by someone who wasn't even handicapped. So we
took a couple of cards and surrounded that car and
then we last out any.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Who Wait, wait who is we? You and the woman
with the walker? Yes, that's not the same. Wait a second.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
You and this woman that you had Boxton, You guys
became an alliance and worked together at moving these cards.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Exactly get in the handicaps spot.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
That is so great.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
I wanted to assume that with you guys. You have
an amazing you.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
You got a parking lot story.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
For us.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Parking lots, you gotta be careful. A lot of incidents
are happening in them, a lot of stories. Do you
have one to share? It doesn't have to be that elaborate.
It could be something crazy you saw somebody do.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
That was a good one.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Though.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
There's so much going on in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh there is, there is. It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Sometimes people will let you know how you're parking or
driving in a parking lot.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's true, and you're one of those people, is that right? Ma'am?

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Hey, good morning, How are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
How are you good?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Good?

Speaker 6 (05:38):
I just want to tell you I have absolutely lest
messages on paper in cards.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh the messages, So this is you've done this a bunch,
apparently messages.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
Oh yeah, I live in CS the Key, and there's
nothing more. That makes me mad. It's when you go
out to a parking lot and you either one cannot
get into a space when you're arriving, or you can
not get into your car because people that come from
out of state decide, first of all, they probably shouldn't
be driving, and second of all, they take up there

(06:09):
over the white line. Yeah, it drives me crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Exactly, stay in the lines. There's a reason you need
to open the door.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's how you get dinged all that.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
So give me what was the last note or the
best note you think you've written?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Can you read it to me radio friendly?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:28):
Yeah, I just said thank you for parking so nicely
between the white lines. Everybody else needs to get into
their cars.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Oh so she goes by way of sarcasm.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
I like it.

Speaker 6 (06:40):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Are you ever with someone like.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
A boyfriend or husband, a friend, my mother with me.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what are they saying when you write the note?

Speaker 6 (06:49):
My mom's like, oh my god, she called me my
first and middle name, and then she says, I cannot
believe you are doing that. And I'm like, but mom,
I'm like, that is just rude.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Tell you what.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
I have gotten a note left on my car once
and I felt like it was uncalled for.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
That was more maddening than the person.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Why did you feel it was uncalled for?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Because I was fine the way I was parked?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Why were you fine? How were you parked fine?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Won would be great man, because Louis spends a lot
of time on yes to key if you lose car?

Speaker 4 (07:25):
I read a little sarcasm.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, No, this is good stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Do you have a parking lot story, something that happened interesting,
or stuff you're on the lookout for in parking lots
because a lot of people admit they don't drive the
way they're supposed to in parking lots because it's just
a parking lot. No, A lot of accidents happen in
parking lots, and they don't have completely clear stats on
this because a lot of them go unreported.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
The parking lot is so dangerous.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, if somebody does something to your car and you
don't notice until a day or two or.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
A few days later.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Happened to me recently, Russhaw. You're like, where'd you get that?
I'm like a shopping cart. I guess a car door.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, it could be anything.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
And then you see random things in parking lots like
the other day. For example, they have the expected mother
parking spaces, they have veteran parking spaces, the purple hearts.
These are all great, right, Sometimes you can tell if
somebody belongs to one of those spots or not.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Like when a guy.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Who's my age parks and there's nobody else in the
vehicle in an expected mother spot.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
That's a dead giveaway.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Do you say something or do you not?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
You know, they gotta put their head on the pillow
at night. I can't stand when you see that. Though
I don't want a problem, I'm not saying anything.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Now, ma'am.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
You said this is one of those where you didn't
know something happened for a day or two.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Is that right in the parking lot?

Speaker 8 (08:51):
Hey, Maverick, the last time I parked in the middle
of two spaces empty on one on each side. I
got home the next morning, my husband was in the
garage and screamed at me what happened to the car.
My car was totally sidewipe, passenger fender, passenger door, sixteen

(09:14):
hundred dollars worth of damage. I never saw it. I
never knew what.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Happened to me.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Somebody gotcha, they did.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
And I will never park in a space where I
don't have a curb on one side and only one
side of the car has the potential.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Somebody, this is all the time.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
You can't just park where there's a curb on one side.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Be a little more sensitive.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
Maverick, Yeah, Maverick exactly, because when it happens to you,
and it hits you in the wallet like that and
there's no notes, that hurts.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Well.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Speaking of getting lucky, I get lucky at ten o'clock
every day when I get to leave here.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
You got to check the truck.

Speaker 8 (09:50):
You're such a brat, Yes he is, But.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
That kind of stuff happens. So it's happened to you,
it happened to her.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, my truck's a little bit older, and I
got dings and scratched.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Said to me, what's that scratch? And I'm like, I
have no idea.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, it must have been in a parking lot.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yes, that's the thing, right, you got a story.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
And a lot of issues in parking lots go unreported
because sometimes people drive away. Oh yeah, sometimes you didn't
know something happened to your vehicle until a day or
two later. True too, And then you interestingly see sometimes
bizarre more often than not, it's unbelievable goes on. So

(10:29):
I was mentioning that I had seen a guy my
age getting out of a car in an expectant mother
parking space. So do you say something or do you
not have a guy who wants to talk about this?

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir, In regards to the man
parking in the expected mother's parking lot, Yeah, I would
approached him and.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Ask him when the baby was due.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Oh that's a good one.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
Sure you don't even look pregnant.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I like your approach.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Honestly, that is probably what I will do next time
I see that.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
I think that would be a softer way, gentler way
of pointing it out. Then you could maybe get a
chuckle and you could go.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
Oh yeah, or just leaving with a smile on your
face exactly.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
For some reason, it just hit me yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Normally I try to stay out of that and mind
my own business, but I just thought to myself, if
nobody says anything, this guy might do this every time.

Speaker 7 (11:26):
Oh absolutely, and it's not okay, right right, I totally agree.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
I think though sooner or later there's always somebody who's
going to say something always.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't know, Lulu, I think there's a lot of
people like you. You would never say anything. How many
people do you think are like you?

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Listen, I somebody sneezed once and I said bless you,
and they said, mind your own business. So I'm I seriously,
that's true story.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yes, there's the line of the grocery
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