I find parking lot traffic far more dangerous these days than the streets. The streets have rules; parking lots don’t seem to have any and that’s a very dangerous combinations of pedestrians and drivers simultaneously not paying attention. I tracked down who ever was playing the role of “manager” at Whole Foods just before Thanksgiving to complain about how close some woman came to mowing me over, driving much too fast and texting all the way. She never looked up all the way to the street. By Christmas, the store had a rent-a-cop directing both car and foot traffic out front. I’m guessing several folks walked into the store over the holidays with eyes widely dilated with fear and anger to find the manager and tell them of the near misses out in the parking lot in front of their store. When I saw they had hired a traffic cop, I stood on the corner and thanked the cop for doing the job. I felt safer both as a pedestrian, and then as a driver.
