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   artyw2@yahoo.com to Howard   
   Re: Parking Lot Debate   
   10 Nov 21 12:17:58   
   
   On Monday, November 8, 2021 at 1:58:39 PM UTC-7, 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?   
      
   Parking is such street sorrow.   
      
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