Why do people back into parking spaces?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:for pete's sake, don't walk behind a car that's backing into a space, lol!

This DCUM. They’re entitled to walk anywhere they want regardless of what’s going on, and are not subject to YOUR questioning of their actions.


They went to an IVY!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people try to back in. I then steal their parking spot by pulling in. Thanks for saving it for me!

If you did that to me, I’d wait until you went inside, then I’d come back, hook a tow strap to your car, connect it to my tow hook, put my Jeep in Low Range, and tow your car out of the space and leave it partially blocking the aisle.


An overreaction? Perhaps. But you need to experience this. Karma demands it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is safer. I do it in one try. Actually, it is easier for me to back into a space than pull into one.

This makes no sense. Pulling into a space is literally driving forward, or as I like to call it, driving.

If you can't drive, don't.

If driving forward is generally agreed upon by all as being “easier” , and therefore backing up would considered “harder” , then doesn’t it stand to reason that people who back up are in fact better drivers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people try to back in. I then steal their parking spot by pulling in. Thanks for saving it for me!

If you did that to me, I’d wait until you went inside, then I’d come back, hook a tow strap to your car, connect it to my tow hook, put my Jeep in Low Range, and tow your car out of the space and leave it partially blocking the aisle.


An overreaction? Perhaps. But you need to experience this. Karma demands it.

I’d dynamite your jeep once you’re inside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people try to back in. I then steal their parking spot by pulling in. Thanks for saving it for me!

Key scratch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over the last few years, I’ve seen more and more people backing into parking spaces. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, as they try to line up their giant vehicles making everyone else wait forever.

Why don’t people just pull into a space??

Because my battery has died enough times in my life (and been replaced, and died) that it’s habit so it’s easier for a jump.

[Anonymous]

It’s easier to back in without readjusting the car and to load groceries in the frunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people try to back in. I then steal their parking spot by pulling in. Thanks for saving it for me!

If you did that to me, I’d wait until you went inside, then I’d come back, hook a tow strap to your car, connect it to my tow hook, put my Jeep in Low Range, and tow your car out of the space and leave it partially blocking the aisle.


An overreaction? Perhaps. But you need to experience this. Karma demands it.

I’d dynamite your jeep once you’re inside.

You wouldn’t know the difference between a stick of dynamite and a sex toy. I’m not worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is safer. I do it in one try. Actually, it is easier for me to back into a space than pull into one.

This makes no sense. Pulling into a space is literally driving forward, or as I like to call it, driving.

If you can't drive, don't.

If driving forward is generally agreed upon by all as being “easier” , and therefore backing up would considered “harder” , then doesn’t it stand to reason that people who back up are in fact better drivers?

If the person can do it quickly and efficiently, which most can't. If you have to readjust or straighten out, you can't back in. And the worst are those who pull through but not far enough an take two spaces.

[Anonymous]

If the space is one space deep, as in backing up to a fence or a building, then I back it in. It is easier to pull out forward than it is to reverse and back out. This is especially true with all the brain dead college grad drivers with their Teslas and Subes here in the region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is safer. I do it in one try. Actually, it is easier for me to back into a space than pull into one.

This makes no sense. Pulling into a space is literally driving forward, or as I like to call it, driving.

If you can't drive, don't.

If driving forward is generally agreed upon by all as being “easier” , and therefore backing up would considered “harder” , then doesn’t it stand to reason that people who back up are in fact better drivers?

I’m pretty sure all these people who don’t understand why people back into spaces are the same people who will drive around the block a few times and then eventually pay to park in a garage because they can’t parallel park. They are also the same people who cannot back out of a curvy driveway. I’ve been in the passenger seat with a few of those drivers and they are not scared of hitting another car, they are scared of being embarrassed by not parking well. So then they never learn how to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH thinks it's time spent upfront to prevent possible accident when leaving. Engineer friend does it by habit because required for safety protocol at work.

This is why I do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who not only don't back in ever but also argue against it vociferously are those who cannot parallel park to save their lives and probably have dubious basic driving skills as well.

I think this is it in a nutshell. There’s a reason law enforcement, military, most construction vehicles, even cars in car lots are backed in. It’s safer and easier to leave.

I don’t know who these people are talking about when they say it takes multiple tries for people to back in. The people I know who back in can do it in one shot and are perfectly centered.

Many of us also back in because we see how crooked many of the people who pull into spaces leave their cars. So again, it’s much easier to pull out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who not only don't back in ever but also argue against it vociferously are those who cannot parallel park to save their lives and probably have dubious basic driving skills as well.

I think this is it in a nutshell. There’s a reason law enforcement, military, most construction vehicles, even cars in car lots are backed in. It’s safer and easier to leave.

I don’t know who these people are talking about when they say it takes multiple tries for people to back in. The people I know who back in can do it in one shot and are perfectly centered.

Many of us also back in because we see how crooked many of the people who pull into spaces leave their cars. So again, it’s much easier to pull out.

100% correct. The people decrying backing in are not good drivers to begin with, but they also cannot conceive that other people are better drivers than they. Yes, pulling into a space is “driving” - the bare minimum of skill needed to get into a space. If you can vaguely aim a car, you can pull into a space. Congratulations. But backing into a space requires more skill and attention than pulling into a space. Therefore backers are better drivers by virtue of being able to do something beyond merely aiming the car while going forward. People who pull into spaces DO back out - but they back out into a much larger area much less precisely than backing into a space.

[Anonymous]

For a fast exit!