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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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