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|    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.              Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Alfa?              /dps              --       There's nothing inherently wrong with Big Data. What matters, as it       does for Arnold Lund in California or Richard Rothman in Baltimore, are       the questions -- old and new, good and bad -- this newest tool lets us       ask. (R. Lerhman, CSMonitor.com)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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