thispatternismine ◾ ◾ 2024-04-15

It's pretty windy today, & when I heard a loud bang, I looked out to see what had blown over & saw a large dumpster in the road behind some guy's car, evidently having hit it (he's got his phone out taking photos of the bumper). Some lady who is passing grabs the bin & moves it back behind the building it came from & locks the wheels so it'll stay in place.

Great, right? Except nope, because instead of dragging it against the wall where it's meant to go, she backs it right up to the building's FIRE EXIT & locks it into place so it can't be moved. Not even just overlapping the doors, or a little way in front so you can open the doors a little (enough to squeeze out through the gap) but not get them fully open. No, right in front, dead centre, pushed right up to the doors.

She looked at the pair of doors saying "FIRE EXIT! KEEP CLEAR!" on each door & went 'yep, perfect place'. And the building is a restaurant & the exit is for the kitchens (y'know, a place with a high chance of fire) I went down there & moved the thing & she's all like >'well it hit that guy's car so I was moving it out the way'. Okay but you can move it an extra few feet & it'd be even more out of the way & NOT BLOCK THE FIRE EXIT FOR A BUSINESS WHERE FIRE IS AN OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD HOLY SHIT