Wildwood shopping center. Bethesda. If I ever go to jail this will be why

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OP someone is going to die in that parking lot! I say this every time I enter. It’s a combo of very old drivers and people racing to run into SB. For the love of god and safety there needs to be a giant drive through Starbucks nearby.

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Anonymous wrote:They should build a stand alone drive through Starbucks in the parking lot there.

I just said the same! Yes!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I had to look this up. It's the one with Balduccis. The one with Whole Foods and the other bagel shop- that was my rage place. I completely boycotted after the first time.

Agree. I park in the back if I go there for lunch or to pick up lunch.

Mornings sound worse

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Anonymous wrote:OP someone is going to die in that parking lot! I say this every time I enter. It’s a combo of very old drivers and people racing to run into SB. For the love of god and safety there needs to be a giant drive through Starbucks nearby.

I mean someone did drive into the fitness store.

Wildwood is next level for parking rage. I will admit that I've let my middle schooler run into Starbucks while pulled over. I promise to park from now on. I'm in a beater SUV and she is a public school kid though.

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Anonymous wrote:So I know I need to get a grip/and or choose another Starbucks/ but the rage I feel each morning as I see huge ass black SUVs in the narrow fire lane blocking other cars is going to land me in jail.

Huge black SUV owners with private school teens in stupid plaid skirts- the rules apply to you as well. Park your damn car and let your kid walk the 10 steps to pick up their drink and Bethesda Bagel. This is not a school drop off lane. You don't have the right to block traffic while you idle your car under a no stopping/standing/fire lane sign.

And no I'm not jealous, my kid attended a 80k per year undergrad. You just suck.

This is a fake story, everyone knows all the huge private school moms drive WHITE SUVs (seriously, once I parked there and the entire row was white luxury SUVs!)

lol I was thinking the same thing!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I know I need to get a grip/and or choose another Starbucks/ but the rage I feel each morning as I see huge ass black SUVs in the narrow fire lane blocking other cars is going to land me in jail.

Huge black SUV owners with private school teens in stupid plaid skirts- the rules apply to you as well. Park your damn car and let your kid walk the 10 steps to pick up their drink and Bethesda Bagel. This is not a school drop off lane. You don't have the right to block traffic while you idle your car under a no stopping/standing/fire lane sign.

And no I'm not jealous, my kid attended a 80k per year undergrad. You just suck.

Agree OP. I’m a rule follower can’t stand the “rules don’t apply” to me types. They usually couch it with some condescending “you need to calm down” remark trying to justify their selfish behavior.

You need to realize that fully 75%+ of the posters on this forum are the “rules don’t apply to me” types. If you weren’t previously aware of that, you need to be.

[Anonymous]

Don’t waste your money at Starbucks. The food and sugary drinks are terrible for you and your kids.

Make coffee at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ITA. Due to a kid extracurricular in the area, I find myself running errands at Wildwood at least once a week. I truly don't understand why the mall management doesn't crack down on the double parking esp at the bagel shop. Especially after the car that went through a shop window a few months back. The volume of foot traffic and car traffic makes it really hazardous.

Then again there's so much double parking everywhere you go, much worse since the pandemic with so many delivery services. I have stopped shopping at a nearby Amazon Fresh because it's impossible to get around all the double parked delivery drivers.

Which shop window? I didn't hear about that...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I know I need to get a grip/and or choose another Starbucks/ but the rage I feel each morning as I see huge ass black SUVs in the narrow fire lane blocking other cars is going to land me in jail.

Huge black SUV owners with private school teens in stupid plaid skirts- the rules apply to you as well. Park your damn car and let your kid walk the 10 steps to pick up their drink and Bethesda Bagel. This is not a school drop off lane. You don't have the right to block traffic while you idle your car under a no stopping/standing/fire lane sign.

And no I'm not jealous, my kid attended a 80k per year undergrad. You just suck.

Agree OP. I’m a rule follower can’t stand the “rules don’t apply” to me types. They usually couch it with some condescending “you need to calm down” remark trying to justify their selfish behavior.

You need to realize that fully 75%+ of the posters on this forum are the “rules don’t apply to me” types. If you weren’t previously aware of that, you need to be.

Who said I wasn’t aware? I’ve (embarrassingly) been here (DCUM) 16 years since my oldest was a baby.

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Anonymous wrote:I had to look this up. It's the one with Balduccis. The one with Whole Foods and the other bagel shop- that was my rage place. I completely boycotted after the first time.

Agree. I park in the back if I go there for lunch or to pick up lunch.

Mornings sound worse

I do this, too. The extra steps are good for my health.

One time, a lady in a car started yelling at me. I pretended like I didn't see her and parked in back. I can't recall why -- just that I was scared. Even if I made an error, it wasn't good for her to yell at me.

[Anonymous]

I am with you OP! The amount of people at wildwood who just pull in the fire lane with their blinkers on is off the charts. Why are these people so lazy? Do they think rules don’t apply to them? It makes me furious.

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Anonymous wrote:I am with you OP! The amount of people at wildwood who just pull in the fire lane with their blinkers on is off the charts. Why are these people so lazy? Do they think rules don’t apply to them? It makes me furious.

Its the same parents who are too lazy to feed their kid breakfast before school.

[Anonymous]

It's only a matter of time before that shopping center becomes a huge mixed-use development.

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Anonymous wrote:OP someone is going to die in that parking lot! I say this every time I enter. It’s a combo of very old drivers and people racing to run into SB. For the love of god and safety there needs to be a giant drive through Starbucks nearby.

There’s a drive-thru Starbucks in Kensington.

Very near Wheaton.🙄

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to look this up. It's the one with Balduccis. The one with Whole Foods and the other bagel shop- that was my rage place. I completely boycotted after the first time.

Agree. I park in the back if I go there for lunch or to pick up lunch.

Mornings sound worse

Yup, Parking in the back is the only way to go at that place.