answer:Great point! Reading the story about your acquaintance in the parking lot just makes me think everyone is constantly angry. I hate it. Growing up, if we bumped into someone we said, “sorry,” didn’t matter whose fault, if you could even find fault. Both people usually said it at once. Now, everyone wants to blame everyone else, and no feelings of trust. I would never think someone purposely bumped into me for instance, but other people do. They think everyone else has mal intentions or ill will. Just awful this sort of thinking. The best way to breed good feelings and community is for people to assume good intentions and behave as we hope others would behave. There seems to also be no room for mistakes. Everyone has super high expectations of everyone performing perfectly as expected. Another reason for anger actually, because when people don’t meet our expectations it can cause anger. I made a minor mistake on the road the other day and lucky the other driver was alert and nothing came if it. I waved and mouthed thank you. He waved back. Nice. I see it plain as day that people who never receive pleasant treatment or unexpected favors don’t treat others nicely. They don’t know how to do it, they haven’t witnessed it and they don’t believe it happens. It is pretty much a pay it forward attitude that we need to instill. I think it all ties together. I do think the pedestrian gets the right of way, but in parking lots usually the driver and pedestrian look at each other and one offers the other the right of way, to make sure no one gets hurt. I just said on another Q this seems to be losing favor. I don’t get it. Don’t you want to make sure as a pedestrian the driver sees you?