OT: Parking Spots
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SPS, there's no right or wrong way. 90%+ of the time you are going forward and backwards exactly 1 time each. Order is irrelevant as long as you don't hold up a line and avoid hitting person and/or property.
Shut up. Doing stuff in the wrong order will lead to babies being born bald and nekkid.
Same here. It's just so much easier and faster to pull in forwards and back out. I can be usually be parked and into the store by the time the person backing into the spot can get parked.
Only park with nose facing out in case I need to get away quick after I rob somewhere.***
Seriously though, I never saw so many people backing into spots or pulling forward through until I moved to Georgia didn't understand why. Then a year ago my daughter took her driving test had to pull forward in, parallel park AND back into a space. I never had to do that when I took my driving test? Anyone else?
Seriously though, I never saw so many people backing into spots or pulling forward through until I moved to Georgia didn't understand why. Then a year ago my daughter took her driving test had to pull forward in, parallel park AND back into a space. I never had to do that when I took my driving test? Anyone else?
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If you don’t back in, you need to get your T checked. Men’s Wellness Clinic in Madison can get you back on track.
Just arrived at the dentist. I backed in the parking space so that at least half of you would be more miserable than I'm about to be.
I know SC drivers are worse than we are here in GA, but I don't think we take it quite that seriously.
Objectively less as a group but individually depends on the dummy
I have no real feelings either way but if you back in at Costco I'm assuming you're just there for cheap liquor and a custody exchange.
I normally park far away from from the other yayhoos, so it really doesn’t matter to me
You'd think it would be safer when leaving the parking spot. But the only accident I've ever had in a parking lot, a guy who had backed in came charging out, without looking, right into the side of my car. That's on the driver, of course, but it's not always safe.
My experience is that takes way longer to wait on someone to abruptly hit brakes and then slowly back into a spot which more times than not takes multiple attempts.
You get your props for this one.
I immediately flashed back to a Costco visit in suburban Denver last spring where I think I saw this go down.
Personally, I don't back into a spot while there are people waiting behind me. That seems counterproductive to my overall goal of getting in and out of wherever the hell I am in the shortest time possible, not to mention that I'm just a nice guy like that. I would agree with you that women who have trouble with spatial relationships (but I repeat myself) don't need to waste everyone's time attempting to back in.
For me, we're talking nanoseconds to glide backwards between the lines in one take, plus I more than make up for that when I zoom straight out of the space on the way out.
If the spots are straight on, I pull through. A lot easier in a big truck.
If they are angled spaces, don't back in or pull through. Don't be that guy.
We always called it “combat parking” when folks back in. I usually just pull in , but I recently got a nice truck so now I park away from everyone.
My company makes us do safety videos (company car) and it says to “pull through or back in” over pulling straight in. Quick internet search confirms that backing in is “considerably safer” than pulling in.
My company makes us do safety videos (company car) and it says to “pull through or back in” over pulling straight in. Quick internet search confirms that backing in is “considerably safer” than pulling in.