That is how it is supposed to work, but I would guess this only happens about 50% of the time on my campus.
Things can get pretty stupid around here. For example, on the first day of classes this semester,
I was walking to my car to exchange my dance bag for my trumpet when an SUV (jeep or something similar) stopped halfway up the ramp and a blonde girl got out of the passenger side. There were a lot of cars behind them and I felt compelled to say something to the driver (another blonde girl), so I said something about it being a really bad idea to stop here and that maybe they shouldn't. The first blonde proceeded to tell me, in an unmistakable "fuck off" tone, that she was just going to her car so that her friend could have her parking space, if that was alright with me. I put up my hands and raised my eyebrows and just walked away, but as I was closing my trunk after retrieving my trumpet, I suddenly heard tires screeching. I looked up to see that she had pulled out of her parking space and backed incredibly close to the oncoming car behind her, that some other jerk had gotten impatient and decided to pass her friend, and that she was now pinned between them. As I watched, she got out of her car and started shouting at the jerk to "back UP! No, YOU back up!" over and over. It may have been a mean thing for me to do, but I started laughing and couldn't really stop myself before I walked away.
I know she heard me, and I felt a teensy bit bad, but really not all that much.