and another, related wild take. you can miss an exit or a turn and keep going straight. it may take longer to get where you’re going, and it may be frustrating, but it’s safer and better than cutting people off
Ffs, I wish people thought this way. Oh shit, I need to cross five lanes of traffic right now!
It should also be a lesson to pay better attention.
The only people who need to hear this won’t listen.
My partner backed into a space yesterday and asked me, “are we good?” I said, “not great.” She opened her door to check the line, laughed, re-parked. Some people understand.
No, if you failed the first time you failed your life
LOL I’ve done this many times. It’s a matter of pride. I don’t want people to be like, did a cat park this?
maaan, one time i pulled in awkward to the corner of a parking lot at a trail head to wait for my friend. i was pulled forward and at an angle so i could see past the other cars and know if my friend had driven past the lot. the was no cell service so i had to go flag him down when i saw him since the rail head wasn’t very well marked. I made sure i wasn’t in anyone’s way, but it was an ugly ass park job if it had actually been a park job.
as I was sat there with my windows cracked two dudes walked past and spent like 5 minutes shitting on Subaru drivers because of my park job. they didn’t see me in the car i guess. like, they were just making incorrect assumptions, but it still kinda hurt…
Sometimes it helps if you remind yourself that criticizing a group they don’t belong to fills some peoples need to feel more powerful. For me adjusting my bad parking is just perfectionism or OCD. I even edit most of my comments after posting LOL.
Is a cat park kind of like a dog park?
If you’re always reparking your car you run a risk of a collision with a distracted driver. If someone sees a car going into a spot its not unreasonable to think they’d assume the car is out of play and can be ignored. When you back out to adjust back between the lines eventually one of those times someone won’t be paying attention to you.]
Don’t go in forwards. Never understood why people insist on going forwards into a parking bay. Less control, needs more room, harder to leave.
I just assume people that go in forwards can’t drive.
I was just never taught how to back in to a parking spot.
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
If I want to be able to access my trunk easily I will have to go forwards.
Otherwise I always go backwards.
Looking at any parking lot, this means 99% of people can’t drive.
Looking at any road, that number seems about right.
Please stop driving. You are putting people at risk. 🤦♂️
While I get the point, this does overlook the seeming law of physics that if you fuck it up once, you will fuck it up every subsequent time.
