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   Howard to All   
   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?   
      
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