1. If you are in any lane other than the right most lane on a freeway/highway, and the vehicle in front of you is visually getting smaller, you are in my way.
2. If you have the need to stop your vehicle before turning into a drive way, you are not only in my way, but you need to think about buying a car that can handle such an expedition at a moderate speed.
3. If you get to the end of an escalator ride, and stop to decide which direction to point your feet in prior to fully exiting the escalator, you are in my way.
4. At a red light if you stop your vehicle more than 1/8th of a car length behind the vehicle in front of you, you are in my way. You might think what difference this makes, but by leaving this gap, you are most likely keeping me from getting into a turn lane, drive way, etc.
5. Do NOT leave enough room in stop and go traffic for people to pull in front of you…you are not only in my way, you are the reason that there is traffic.
6. If you walk into a doorway at any public building, and do not completely cross the threshold, but instead take a moment to decide where it is that you wish to go, you are in my way.
7. When someone breaks the law to get two cars higher up in traffic by driving on the shoulder, if you let this person in front of you, you are in my way. Don't give into those people.
8. If I am breaking the law to get two cars higher up in traffic by driving on the shoulder and you won't let me in. You are…doing exactly what you are supposed to.
9. If you stand next to your shopping cart in the aisle at any store instead of in front or in back of the cart, you are blocking aisle and in my way.
10. When you have the right of way in any situation, don't be courteous, kind, or helpful. Take your right away, when you slow down to be nice, you are actually getting in my way. Even when I am the person you think you are being kind to.
    

--Diatribe

Coming out of Home Depot today, I approached my Jeep Wrangler but I was unable to get to it. The people in the Ford Bronco parked next to me decided to use the space behind my vehicle as a holding area for their items while they decided how they would go about loading them into their car. That is to say that they had unloaded their goods onto the surface of the parking lot and completely blocked in my vehicle. In addition to this, they kept their doors open so that access to the driver's seat of my vehicle was made unavailable.

Normally, I wouldn't get too terribly upset by such an event, but despite the fact that they stood and watched me hurl my items over their stuff into the back of my Jeep, they remained too inconsiderate to apologize for the inconvenience this caused me. Contrary to apology, they were visually perturbed by my presence and acted like I was the one who was in the way.

I am constantly amazed by events like this. What is this insistence of the human animal to treat everyone as if the universe revolves around only them. When I am in my car, at the store, walking, talking, breathing, existing, I am always conscience of the fact that I could possibly be in the way of others. When I slip, and of course I do slip, I make it a point to apologize, or give some resemblance of body language that denotes, silly me, I was selfishly in your way. I not only expect the same sort of gesture of all the other bipeds that I share this planet with, I demand it.

So, for all of you who haven't pulled your head out of your ass far enough to realize that there are others on this planet, I have this to say to you. You are most likely in my way. And by 'my', I mean EVERYONE's. Here's a little list of things for starters to begin recognizing that you could possibly be in my way.