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   Message 144,059 of 144,831   
   Snidely to All   
   Re: Parking Lot Debate   
   10 Nov 21 14:15:40   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, artyw2@yahoo.com exclaimed wildly:   
   > 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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