It's because they are women.
It's because they are women.
Im 32 and have exercised induced asthma. Got a handicapped parking permit 4 years ago . It's all good for me .
I do it to get the backing up part out of the way at the start. It is safer to pull out of a parking spot than to back out for the most part and I've never seen it take anyone anywhere near five minutes to back in. If it does take someone that long the person probably shouldn't be driving.
and this is why you always keep a small stack of "@$$hole parking" business cards handy in the console of your car. just slip one of those puppies under the drivers side wiper as you walk past their car, makes you feel better but they'll still never learn to park correctly. I wish i had a crappy car, I would just park about 1.5in away from their door so that they had to get in on the passenger side- I honestly don't know what's unclear about two giant white lines, that allow you at least 6in of room on each side of your care. smh
towhee26 wrote:
"Why can't Johnny park" has been a longstanding theme in the Towhee household. You see those two big thick stripes? You put your wheels in between. Not on the stripes nor straddling them. In between.
I learned to always back into a parking spot when visiting my pals in Cabrini Green, Chicago. You never know when you are going to have to blast out of your parking spot, and it's a lot easier to make your exit in forward rather than reverse.
At my parking lot at work, the best spot closest to the building is on a main artery in the parking lot. Those spots fill up quickly. And if I get there early and get one of those spots, I always back in because otherwise it's nearly impossible to back out at the end of the day since traffic gets backed up in front of those spots.
Backing in is pretty simple once you've done it quite often.
Star wrote:
Backing out is much easier than backing in.
You don't have to be accurate when you back out. Just don't hit anything.
But backing in is a bit trickier than pulling in forward because of poorer site lines and need for more mirrors.
It usually takes more tries to get in the middle of the space.
Although, in a tight lot, backing in is easier than pulling in forward because of the angle created when the turning wheels is more helpful when the turning wheels are on the outer part of the spot which is what you have when you back in.
Normally pulling and then backing out is quicker than backing in and then pulling out because getting out is always easy.
I respectfully disagree. Backing in its easier and safer. "Just don't hit anything" is the general idea whenever you're driving. When you are backing into a spot you have at most three things to watch. The cars to your left and right, and the car or barrier at the end of the parking space. These things don't move and you can clearly see them.
When backing out of a spot, you have those three things plus any number of moving cars, people, kids, and whatever else. Plus, when you're backing out, your visibility is significantly limited.
As many as 20% of accidents occur in parking lots. I work as a health and safety consultant, and some of our clients are insurance companies looking to reduce risk for their business customers. One of the highest impact programs we have is driver safety, and a huge part of that is parking. By training drivers and implementing company policies we can significantly reduce the number of accidents and thus insurance claims. Everyone wins.