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   Message 144,053 of 144,831   
   Les Albert to All   
   Re: Parking Lot Debate   
   09 Nov 21 10:12:08   
   
   From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 20:58:35 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
   wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
      
   No.   
      
   Les   
      
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