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[quote=Anonymous]I see this ALL the time in parking lots. Person is backing out, already 1/2 out of the space, etc. Person going straight looking for a space sometimes has to swerve around car backing up. A lot of the times, people are driving on the left side of a wide parking lot aisle instead of the right - even without lines, doesn’t it make good driver sense to stick with the conventions of the road? I saw a collision yesterday - person backing out had absolutely no damage - a little paint transfer. Person driving had a scrape that went from the front quarter panel all the way to the rear wheel well. And then there are the people who walk behind cars as people are backing up. They see the car backing up and don’t stop and simply wait or change direction - they just keep going. I said something to someone once and the response was “I have the right of way”. I said “Yes, you do, but what good is that if you are injured or killed?”

I never understood people who back into spaces, but now I do. I installed a back-up camera in my old truck, and it’s unreal how many times I’ve had to jam on my brakes because there was no one there, I start backing up, and someone just walks behind me or a car just drives behind me as if I don’t exist.

People, you have nowhere to go that is so important that you cannot wait a moment for someone to finish their maneuver. Common courtesy is lost.[/quote]

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