parking.....

[disney_mommy]

Because people have to wait for you to get backed in before they can move on and park themselves.

Because if you pass a spot because you are going to back in, the person behind you (as well as everyone behind them) will have to back up to accomodate your backing in.

Inconvenience to other people should be considered.

When I approach a spot to back in to, I swerve the opposite way, it looks like I'm trying to park behind a car across the lane, then I back up. Nobody else has to back up. They have to wait long enough for me to put the car in reverse and back it up, probably 8 seconds at most.

Besides, if someone is following me so closely that they need to back up to get out of my way, then they deserve it.

 

[U2_rocks!]

The consensus seems to be that it doesn't take that long if you know what you are doing. My experience is that most drivers have no clue what they are doing.

Well, most drivers here do - it's part of our driving test.

 

[tlbwriter]

I'm glad it wasn't part of our driving test - I wouldn't have passed. I've never done it and I've never had a need to do it. And I know it would be more difficult for me personally, because I can't even back into my own 2-car garage easily, let alone a much smaller parking spot. I can, however, back out of my garage like a boss.

 

[Mermaid02]

I'm glad it wasn't part of our driving test - I wouldn't have passed. I've never done it and I've never had a need to do it. And I know it would be more difficult for me personally, because I can't even back into my own 2-car garage easily, let alone a much smaller parking spot. I can, however, back out of my garage like a boss.

LOL- it's just because you are used to it. Practice makes perfect!

 

[U2_rocks!]

I'm glad it wasn't part of our driving test - I wouldn't have passed. I've never done it and I've never had a need to do it. And I know it would be more difficult for me personally, because I can't even back into my own 2-car garage easily, let alone a much smaller parking spot. I can, however, back out of my garage like a boss.

It's only difficult because you've never practised it. If your driver's license depended on it, you'd learn!

 

[kamik86]

Well, most drivers here do - it's part of our driving test.

It was part of my driving test too and I still cant do it.

Driving tests in my area also cover things like not pulling out in front of people, running red lights, parking within the lines (no matter what method you use) and pulling all the way in to your spot... but it seems most around here still cant manage these things.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I don't back into parking spaces.

At the risk of sounding sexist ... Have you ever noticed that almost all the people who back into parking spaces are men? What does this mean?

I must be confused then because I always back in pulling out when people in car parks do not watch where they are going is easier. Oh I am definately not male.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Safety should be considered- and as FireDancer pointed out- it's safer to back into a place than it is to back out of a place.

Backing into a parking place at a grocery store is one of my pet peeves and an argument that DH and I have agreed not to have again. I don't back into a parking place for several reasons:

• I'm inconveniencing everyone around me when I do
• I can't get my groceries into the trunk because of the car behind me
• I run the risk of damaging the cars parked next to me as I maneuver the shopping cart to the back of the car
• Worse - There's no room to maneuver the cart to the back of the car and I have to hand-carry each bag to the trunk
• If/when SUV's park next to me, I STILL won't be able to see to either side until I clear them

People who back into parking display that same annoying trait I see coming from those who stop to others out of a parking lot, or let someone turn left in front of them, or wave for you to go ahead at a four-way stop: They're inconveniencing others (at best) or creating a traffic hazard (at worst) so they can either have a feel-good moment about themselves or be controlling about the situation around them.

Nothing burns my butter more than the person who'll hold up 20 people behind them so he/she can be "gracious" to the one person in front of them. There's nothing considerate about those people. They're just doing it to make themselves feel good or that they're doing their good deed for the day, never realizing that they just screwed up the traffic pattern for the crowd behind them.

Which brings me back to the whole, "I'm doing it for safety" BS excuse for backing in. You are just as likely to have an accident backing into a parking space as you are backing out. And if there's someone waiting for you (generic you, not just Mermaid) to negotiate your backing skills before they can proceed to their parking space, what you're really saying is that you're inconveniencing them for the sake of someone else's "safety" or (more likely) so you can make a quick getaway when you get out of the building.

I've never been in an accident backing out and I will continue to pull in forward into parking spots. When I back out, SUVs around me or not, the radio's off, the back windows are open so I can hear others and I'm 100% focused on the task at hand rather than getting on my cell phone, changing radio stations, putting on my seat belt or the myriad of things other people do that make them a risk for accidents to occur when they're backing out of parking spots.

And now you can see why DH and I have agreed to not have this conversation again.

 

[DizBelle]

How can backing into an area only marginally bigger than your car be easier than backing out to an open area?

 

[Mermaid02]

How can backing into an area only marginally bigger than your car be easier than backing out to an open area?

Re read FireDancer's post. Why is backing in harder than backing out? It's not, if you know how to do it.

 

[Mermaid02]

Backing into a parking place at a grocery store is one of my pet peeves and an argument that DH and I have agreed not to have again. I don't back into a parking place for several reasons:

• I'm inconveniencing everyone around me when I do
• I can't get my groceries into the trunk because of the car behind me
• I run the risk of damaging the cars parked next to me as I maneuver the shopping cart to the back of the car
• Worse - There's no room to maneuver the cart to the back of the car and I have to hand-carry each bag to the trunk
• If/when SUV's park next to me, I STILL won't be able to see to either side until I clear them

People who back into parking display that same annoying trait I see coming from those who stop to others out of a parking lot, or let someone turn left in front of them, or wave for you to go ahead at a four-way stop: They're inconveniencing others (at best) or creating a traffic hazard (at worst) so they can either have a feel-good moment about themselves or be controlling about the situation around them.

Nothing burns my butter more than the person who'll hold up 20 people behind them so he/she can be "gracious" to the one person in front of them. There's nothing considerate about those people. They're just doing it to make themselves feel good or that they're doing their good deed for the day, never realizing that they just screwed up the traffic pattern for the crowd behind them.

Which brings me back to the whole, "I'm doing it for safety" BS excuse for backing in. You are just as likely to have an accident backing into a parking space as you are backing out. And if there's someone waiting for you (generic you, not just Mermaid) to negotiate your backing skills before they can proceed to their parking space, what you're really saying is that you're inconveniencing them for the sake of someone else's "safety" or (more likely) so you can make a quick getaway when you get out of the building.

I've never been in an accident backing out and I will continue to pull in forward into parking spots. When I back out, SUVs around me or not, the radio's off, the back windows are open so I can hear others and I'm 100% focused on the task at hand rather than getting on my cell phone, changing radio stations, putting on my seat belt or the myriad of things other people do that make them a risk for accidents to occur when they're backing out of parking spots.

And now you can see why DH and I have agreed to not have this conversation again.

Then why are so many companies making this policy? Do you think they havent' looked into it statistically?

 

[Carly_Roach]

Safety should be considered- and as FireDancer pointed out- it's safer to back into a place than it is to back out of a place.

Then why are so many companies making this policy? Do you think they havent' looked into it statistically?

Because, like other trends, they don't know any better. When statistics start to sway in the opposite direction they'll change their policy.

It matters not to me. I'll continue to pull into a parking space like 95% of the other people around me and continue to back out of it like 95% of the other people around me. Statistics be damned.

 

[Mermaid02]

Because, like other trends, they don't know any better. When statistics start to sway in the opposite direction, they'll change the policy.

It matters not to me. I'll continue to pull into a parking space like 95% of the other people around me and continue to back out of it like 95% of the other people around me. Statistics be damned.

Fine with me- but don't get all wound up the next time someone backs into a space- it's bad for your blood pressure!

 

[PaulaSB12]

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Which brings me back to the whole, "I'm doing it for safety" BS excuse for backing in. You are just as likely to have an accident backing into a parking space as you are backing out. And if there's someone waiting for you (generic you, not just Mermaid) to negotiate your backing skills before they can proceed to their parking space, what you're really saying is that you're inconveniencing them for the sake of someone else's "safety" or (more likely) so you can make a quick getaway when you get out of the building.
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The trouble with pulling out is that other people walk to their cars without
a watching what their children are doing so you have to stop to make sure you don't hit them.
b watch where they are going so you have to make sure you don't hit them (damages cars that does). I was driving out of a car park and had to stop, it was one where you put a ticket in the gate to be let out, and some one walked into the back of my car!

 

[Carly_Roach]

Fine with me- but don't get all wound up the next time someone backs into a space- it's bad for your blood pressure!

I rarely have to wait for someone else to back into a space. Like I said: 95% of the people who seem to be around me when I'm at a store pull in front-wise. Like Golfgal, I would have also been chuckling at the fact that someone swiped a space when a car pulled ahead to back into it. Sorry, but you passed it and I saw it and took it. Too bad! Next time don't back in.

My blood pressure only goes up with DH (who's a PO and subcribes to the same "back it in" theory) and I have this discussion. So we don't. Have this discussion, I mean. When he drives, he backs in. If/when we get pinned in (as we frequently do) and the groceries have to be trucked back to the trunk by hand, he does the trucking and my job is to refrain from giving him "the look".

When I drive, I pull in and he refrains from giving me "the look". Most of the time, anyway.

 

[tennisfan]

I always back into a parking space, its easier for me, I was taught to do so by my driving instructor as its safer when you pull out as you have a clear view of your surroundings & I can do it in one go without all the shunting back & forth.

I have to back into spaces when i'm parking the ambulance at work as they are then easier to drive out when we get a shout.

 

[mrodgers]

Safety should be considered- and as FireDancer pointed out- it's safer to back into a place than it is to back out of a place.

Safe for whom? Pedestrians? If you are walking through a parking lot, please note that there may be vehicle traffic pulling into and out of parking spaces.

If for vehicles, it is far easier to back straight out into the lane, turn the wheel and proceed to pull straight with the lane, put the car in forward gear, and drive away than to try to squeeze your car between two parked cars while turning in reverse.

I can see a car backing out of a space while I'm walking through the parking lot and can stop and wait. I can't hurry up and move my car out of harms way while the person's bumper is scraping along my car trying to back into a parking space.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Backing in drives me a little nutty because most of the time (for me) it's people who can't do it right! Back and forth, back and forth. It's a 2 point system not a 15 point system.

Parallel parking, eh, I don't do it, was never really good at it. But if that's the kind of parking there is, then there really isn't a lot of choice.

However (donning my flame suit) I hate people who pull through!!!! I've been hit and almost hit multiple times by people who will go completely around to the other lane and then pull through. The other day this lady drove past the space and went around, I was a small ways behind her. I go to pull in the space and she came whipping around from the other lane and tried to pull through as I was pulling in.

 

[Cinderella94]

However (donning my flame suit) I hate people who pull through!!!! I've been hit and almost hit multiple times by people who will go completely around to the other lane and then pull through. The other day this lady drove past the space and went around, I was a small ways behind her. I go to pull in the space and she came whipping around from the other lane and tried to pull through as I was pulling in.

In my defense, if I want to pull through I'll go park out in no-man's-land. (I still have my learner's permit and need to practice parking straight more )

 

[disney_mommy]

Backing into a parking place at a grocery store is one of my pet peeves and an argument that DH and I have agreed not to have again. I don't back into a parking place for several reasons:

[*]I'm inconveniencing everyone around me when I do

It's not inconveniencing anyone if you are competent enough to do it quickly and easily.

People who back into parking display that same annoying trait I see coming from those who stop to others out of a parking lot, or let someone turn left in front of them, or wave for you to go ahead at a four-way stop: They're inconveniencing others (at best) or creating a traffic hazard (at worst) so they can either have a feel-good moment about themselves or be controlling about the situation around them.

You have a very narrow-minded view of humanity. I let people walk in front of me or turn before me because it's polite. It has nothing to do with me. And yes, I back into a parking spot because I want to control my parking situation. So?

Which brings me back to the whole, "I'm doing it for safety" BS excuse for backing in. You are just as likely to have an accident backing into a parking space as you are backing out.

Do you have data to support this claim?

And if there's someone waiting for you (generic you, not just Mermaid) to negotiate your backing skills before they can proceed to their parking space, what you're really saying is that you're inconveniencing them for the sake of someone else's "safety" or (more likely) so you can make a quick getaway when you get out of the building.

Yes, you can wait the extra 7 seconds while I back in. There I said it.

When I back out, SUVs around me or not, the radio's off, the back windows are open so I can hear others and I'm 100% focused on the task at hand rather than getting on my cell phone, changing radio stations, putting on my seat belt or the myriad of things other people do that make them a risk for accidents to occur when they're backing out of parking spots.

These things put everyone at risk for accidents, not just people backing out of a parking spot.

And now you can see why DH and I have agreed to not have this conversation again.

Because you're narrow-minded, can't see anyone else's opinion besides your own and like to throw around 'facts' unsupported by evidence?