Weakened Coffee

[heyzeus]

That's some weak coffee.

[StL Dan]

The one near miss I can remember in 10 years in a parking lot was some guy at work that backed into his spot. He passed the spot up (it was next to me), so I figured he was going to another open spot so I backed up. He stopped, didn't look, and went to fly in backwards as I was backing out. I had to slam on the horn. Also - and this has happened several times - people that back in end up too close or on the line because backing in is harder and pin you in. I open the door extra hard in those cases.

You shouldn't assume the coast is clear before backing out.

Backing in is not difficult at all.

The guy passes me up, I go to pull out and am in motion. He stops, slams it in reverse, and stars backing in. Maybe you shouldn't assume the coast is clear before backing in?

Ah, I see. Ya, he's a moron. Give 'em the horn.

And, I agree, the backerinner shouldn't assume stuff either.

If done properly, pulling through/backing in makes for a simple, risk free escape when it's time to leave while everyone else around you is crooning their necks back and forth trying to see if there are any cars or people in their way before backing out. The "hard part" has already behind the backerinner.

I challenge you to try it for a week. You'll be hooked. A side benefit is it encourages you to find a spot that is a little further away from the main cluster of cars in bigger parking lots (like the grocery store, etc). It's fun watching cars that come into the parking lot at the same time as you do drive and drive looking for that closest spot while I just pick an edge spot, pull through and am halfway in the door while they are finally pulling into a coveted spot.

[IMADreamer]

People who back into spots should be shot. I once had a guy in my face because I pulled into a spot. Apparently he was going to back into said spot. I swear to god I didn't see him. I offered to give him the spot but no. So after he yelled at me and took down my plate like he was some bad ass with connections and not the janitor at the hospital where this was I snapped his picture and his plate with my phone. He yelled more and we went our separate ways.

Two weeks later I saw him and his van again at a movie theater. He may have gotten a flat tire. I need to learn to let things go.

[StL Dan]

You didn't see him because you didn't look. You need to be smacked around for being so unobservant of your sorroundings.

[SHOW]

j/k

[Freed Roger]

Pulling in. backing in. backing out. Pulling out. Suum cuique. It's all good.

[jim]

I won't try it dan because it means I have to take an action now that will have it's reward 4-8 hours from that point. That's just never going to happen. I need instant gratification.

[cardsfansince82]

I was in Westport on Saturday night. The parking lot is one way and the spots are pretty severely angled, so the only logical way to get out of there is to back out of the spot and drive the correct direction. I am walking to my car to leave and some fat, lazy [expletive] comes driving down the aisle the wrong way and asks me if I'm leaving. I say I am but that she is driving the wrong way and blocking my exit. The aisle is so narrow that I wouldn't have been able to get past her if I had backed up and pulled out correctly. I point to the arrow on the ground showing she is going the wrong way and the angle of the spot and just shrug my shoulders. She starts screaming at me to get in my car and back up so she can have the spot. She honestly expected me to do a fifteen point turn pulling forward and backward 6 inches at a time all while risking hitting the cars on either side of me or going up on the curb behind me, then driving out the wrong way, all so she could have this precious spot. She didn't seem to understand that not everyone is driving a little [expletive] box Kia Rio or whatever it was she was in. At this point I didn't know what to do to get her to just [expletive] off so I could leave. I finally just smirked and said "guess I'm not leaving after all" and started walking away. She waited for me to walk at least 100 feet before finally leaving so I could turn around and go back to my car. What the [expletive] is wrong with people?

[IMADreamer]

You didn't see him because you didn't look. You need to be smacked around for being so unobservant of your sorroundings.

[SHOW]

j/k

Haha I probably do.

[StL Dan]

I won't try it dan because it means I have to take an action now that will have it's reward 4-8 hours from that point. That's just never going to happen. I need instant gratification.

hahaha....fair enough, jim.

[StL Dan]

I was in Westport on Saturday night. The parking lot is one way and the spots are pretty severely angled, so the only logical way to get out of there is to back out of the spot and drive the correct direction. I am walking to my car to leave and some fat, lazy [expletive] comes driving down the aisle the wrong way and asks me if I'm leaving. I say I am but that she is driving the wrong way and blocking my exit. The aisle is so narrow that I wouldn't have been able to get past her if I had backed up and pulled out correctly. I point to the arrow on the ground showing she is going the wrong way and the angle of the spot and just shrug my shoulders. She starts screaming at me to get in my car and back up so she can have the spot. She honestly expected me to do a fifteen point turn pulling forward and backward 6 inches at a time all while risking hitting the cars on either side of me or going up on the curb behind me, then driving out the wrong way, all so she could have this precious spot. She didn't seem to understand that not everyone is driving a little [expletive] box Kia Rio or whatever it was she was in. At this point I didn't know what to do to get her to just [expletive] off so I could leave. I finally just smirked and said "guess I'm not leaving after all" and started walking away. She waited for me to walk at least 100 feet before finally leaving so I could turn around and go back to my car. What the [expletive] is wrong with people?

Stupid Kansas City faggggots....errrr.....drivers. (ala Blazing Saddles)