Anonymous
11/25/2018 13:09
Subject: Do you have to back into every parking space?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an extended SUV. I believe it’s the biggest American-made SUV. When I first got it, I would park at the end of the lot/Gods country in a driven through parking spot.
I began backing it in on the driveway after my weekly shopping.
When I began working in an office with a super tight garage -basically room for 1.5 cars but 2-way traffic, I began parking on the top floor. Away from others. These days the garage is almost at capacity. I now 100% of the time back in. I had a guy lean on his horn the other week after I backed in. What made him an ass though was his 40 mph speed through the garage. Really?! It’s 830 am and you can’t sit?! Get up a little earlier next time.
The worst is that the garage (made for 1.5 car span) has parking spots at the end of every row that don’t give enough room for 2 cars to go in opposite directions. I can see the cars heading towards me (I sit high), so I routinely wait. The folks in sedan/coupe cannot and near misses all too often. Worst is when someone is backing out. I cringe.
Talk about burying the lede. Your monster truck is clearly too big for the garage. Get a normal sized car.
It's "lead", not "lede".... as in "the lead story"
Get your idioms straight before you start telling people what they should be driving.
NP. It's lede. You are wrong, leave the thread.
-- journalist who has spent 22 years working in mainstream media
And I've got 4 years on you, in the same industry. Except unlike you, I'm not lying about it.
It's l-e-a-d. As in "we're leading our newscast tonight with ________".
When you "bury the lead", you're putting the most important part of the story under/after some other minutiae.
Your post got a lot of WTF looks and squints in our newsroom tonight.
HOly Shit. Your newsroom just got pwned. You guys do know what pwned is right? If you need help, let us know.
Did you read the article? Of course not. Here, let me help you...
"Lead" IS the original spelling. It was changed to "lede" to assist printers doing page layouts for printing presses.
We don't have printing presses in TV news bureaus, ergo, we never changed the spelling from the original (and correct) version to an incorrect one.
Critical thought isn't your thing, is it? Hopefully you'll get better at it before you get to college.
Np here, not a journalist. Even I saw "lede" and knew it was accepted although I never knew why or the history. I would have thought the "lead" person didn't know better. So it seems the older definition is more ingrained, but maybe the new media version will catch on. In any case, they are both correct. Like snuck is a word now. Sheesh. Like checque and check. Like gif and gif.
Anonymous
11/25/2018 12:49
Subject: Re:Do you have to back into every parking space?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ive read through the comments and have concluded that most people are idiots. Youre going to have to wait either way. If you pull in, someone is going to have to wait for you to back out. If you do it the opposite way, someone is going to have to wait for you to back in. Why does it matter? Either way someone is waitingIs this a joke? People really complaining about something thats inevitable? I'm truly amazed.
Well, you're wrong about part of your argument though. The part about "people having to wait on you while you back out"
Because they won't. Most won't, at least. A few do, but most, when they see someone starting to back out, will speed up to try to get past them, even if it means having to force the person backing out to halt. They'll blast their horn, they'll scoot through the gap with inches to spare, or they'll simply run into the person backing out and then make them at-fault for an accident, and peruse a damages settlement.
I've seen/heard people squealing tires they were accelerating so far to try and get past a person in the middle of backing out. It's absolutely sociopathic.
This is what turns people into backers.
Every word of this.
I can't fathom how powerless in life some people are to feel like the only place they can exert control is to force people who are in the process of backing out of space to come to a halt while they force their way past behind them. And there seems to be direct correlation to race and SEC of the biggest offenders. A blonde white woman in a Range Rover will NEVER stop to allow someone backing out of a space to finish. They will always force the person to stop so they can go first.
Pathetic
Anonymous
11/25/2018 00:39
Subject: Re:Do you have to back into every parking space?
Anonymous wrote:Ive read through the comments and have concluded that most people are idiots. Youre going to have to wait either way. If you pull in, someone is going to have to wait for you to back out. If you do it the opposite way, someone is going to have to wait for you to back in. Why does it matter? Either way someone is waiting
Well, you're wrong about part of your argument though. The part about "people having to wait on you while you back out"
Because they won't. Most won't, at least. A few do, but most, when they see someone starting to back out, will speed up to try to get past them, even if it means having to force the person backing out to halt. They'll blast their horn, they'll scoot through the gap with inches to spare, or they'll simply run into the person backing out and then make them at-fault for an accident, and peruse a damages settlement.
I've seen/heard people squealing tires they were accelerating so far to try and get past a person in the middle of backing out. It's absolutely sociopathic.
This is what turns people into backers.
Anonymous
11/23/2018 23:43
Subject: Do you have to back into every parking space?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, I always back in. Always. When I was a teenager I ran over a dog when I was backing out of our driveway. Thank God it wasn’t a kid.
Do you realize that you could have also run over a dog backing INTO the driveway????
Anonymous
11/23/2018 16:45
Subject: Re:Do you have to back into every parking space?
Ive read through the comments and have concluded that most people are idiots. Youre going to have to wait either way. If you pull in, someone is going to have to wait for you to back out. If you do it the opposite way, someone is going to have to wait for you to back in. Why does it matter? Either way someone is waiting Is this a joke? People really complaining about something thats inevitable? I'm truly amazed.
Is this a joke? People really complaining about something thats inevitable? I'm truly amazed.