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|    Parking Lot Debate    |
|    08 Nov 21 20:58:35    |
      From: howdHol@yaooho.com              I recently saw a reference to regular and fierce online anger at people       who pull into one parking spot and then drive up into the next spot       forward, so that they can just drive straight out of the spot when they       leave, rather than backing out.              I looked around and saw that there is a fair amount of disagreement       whether it is a best practice, but in my quick search I didn't see any       anger.              Are there actually people who get tied in a knot over this? The best I       can imagine is that during a few crazy times, like Black Friday, people       might feel like this amounts to taking a parking space they thought they       were in line for.              I saw one reference to a concern that someone might open a door into the       path of a car doing this because they didn't expect someone from that       direction, but if that happens, I have to think it's much rarer than       most parking mishaps.              Is it actually a way of parking that people get angry about, the way       they do when someone straddles a line and takes up two spots at once, or       backs out of a spot without looking?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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