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Backing into a parking spot
Okie Mom
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I have noticed this for some time and always wondered why so many guys seem to back into parking spots????
Is it a guy thing and if so why ?
Is it a guy thing and if so why ?
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It is also safer because you are not backing out into traffic or pedestrians.
Brad Steele
The back hangs out over the grass and lets me keep it from getting the front of the truck smacked.
Makes getting out easier too.
back 30 plus years ago when I out help out with security at the local High-school foot ball games, we had one parking lot that you drove down the center and then parked to either side ,, we made every one that parked there back into the spots , so when they left after the game in the dark there headlights would show all the other folks leaving and no one got ran over
Jon
I have noticed this for some time and always wondered why so many guys seem to back into parking spots????
Is it a guy thing and if so why ?
For some reason I was thinking parallel parking! And all I could see was a picture of a woman driver trying to drive straight in! [:D][:D][:D] It took me awhile to figure that out! [:D][:D][:D]
Well, you usually have to back in or out. I like backing in or pulling through to the next stall, so I can just pull out.
Jon
That's what I do when there's two way traffic between the rows of parking spaces, but when it's one way traffic I pull straight in. Otherwise when I pull out, if I meet a car I'm the guy going the wrong way.
It's origin is an emergency exit procedure at facilities with large numbers of employees. Backing in allows the parking lot to empty in less than half the time.
It is also safer because you are not backing out into traffic or pedestrians.
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It is much safer and quicker !
I worked several valet parking lots > always backed in, except for the first and last car in the line.
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It makes it easier to hook up the jumper cables.
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That is the reason why I drive the car FORWARD INTO the garage when I leave for usually 6+ months. Can easily get the cables back on the battery and charger hooked up.
Normally I back in,, two reasons,, Pull straight in and the drivers door will be on wall side. Second reason,, easier get in and go w/o "twisting" my neck to look around. Noticed my neck doesn't turn as easy as 10 years ago.
It makes it easier to hook up the jumper cables.
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Very true. I used to live in Montana, and when the temps got REALLY low there were times I needed to give or get a jump. Having the stuck car backed in made the chore so much easier. [:D]
Also faster getaway in case of emergency. Just logical. Drives my wife nuts for some reason. "Why don't you just park like a normal person?"
When have I ever done anything like a normal person?
Too old to live...too young to die...
always wondered if one had insulting cards printed up and left them on a-holes packing in handicapped spots...maybe with notes saying the pic and license would be sent to the local evening news
More times than not, they are a protected species I see doing that, and they could not care less.
It's a lot easier to work on or jump start a vehicle that's backed in than one that's parked nose-in.
Like Doc said, people might park close to you & make it harder to back out.
I had a (strange) friend who criticized my parking. He asked "Why do you have a 'fetish' for backing into a parking spot?" I replied, "Why do you have a 'fetish' for backing out of parking spots?" & pointed out that we both back up the same amount of times.
Our new car has a backup screen. It has red, yellow and a green zone. Uh, don't keep backing up when your in the red zone[B)] Damn thing is very accurate though.
My jeep has a screen like that. It does make backing into a spot much easier. If you look at the pic you can see it. It's about 10:00 from the b on the license plate.
Just kept up the habit as it makes it much easier to leave than backing out into traffic flow.
It does seem to just bum-fuzzle some people when I am trying to back in and someone else is driving the same parking spot. But not everybody seems to forward think. They just want to get their car parked NOW and deal with it later.
It always cracks me up after larger events, watchin every other car attempting to back out into a traffic jam.
Besides backing out of parking spaces is so dang difficult. Dont believe me? Check out this video from Calgary. I bet you cant watch it and not chuckle.
Now with my F-150, it's easier to see the lines and how far back I can go with the backup camera. From the front, the truck is so big I can't tell. Plus I have a big 12000 pound winch and bull bars in the front, so the front end sticks out even farther.
"Combat parking!"...[:D]
Yep, that's it. Those who have been in the Military know this, as do LEO's, Fire & Medical.
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Then I watched this idiot in a large 4x4 truck who had parked in a lot of a couple hundred vehicles with one exit. He pulled straight into a parking space that faced the street. Then after the show this guy couldnt back out into the over crowded parking lot. Sick of waiting he decides to drive over the curb, across the sidewalk and over the curb at the road. Others behind him, assuming it was an exit, started to follow him. The next few cars had a horrible time slinking over the curb, and scraping the bottoms of their cars.
To make it worse they were unable to make the turn and were now on the road, but facing the wrong way on a divided rd. There was a grass island in the middle of the road.
If traffic wasnt grid locked allready, it was impossible to move now. Then the driver of the truck that went over the curb that started this mess, turns his cranking music off, shuts his truck off, and then gets out and walks several blocks down the road. Presumably to see what the traffic tie up was.
Unbelievable if I had not seen it with my own eyes. It took us nearly three hours to travel approximately two miles. And several more miles after that before we actually starting going the posted speed limits.
Its difficult sharing the road with people like that. Many times they are unaware of the fact that THEY are the problem!
On an aside, I cringe when I hear about some parent in a hurry backing out over their own bike/dog/cat/child in their own driveway.