What is something small that you do that confuses other people whenever they see you doing it?
Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.
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I use my indicators when reversing out of a parking spot. It’s the way I was taught, and it makes sense to me, but apparently it’s weird.
I do too. It makes sense I think, that flashing light could be the difference between a car noticing you or not if the timing is otherwise perfect for a crash.
Even better... reverse park.
Yeah I hate having easy access to my boot as well
Yeah, everybody loves it when you clog up the lane slowly backing your car in.
Kind of like the way you do while backing out?
No, since there's much more room while backing out.
It's the exact same parking slot no matter which way you're driving in/out.
I disagree that it overall takes any more time no matter which way you park but one thing is for sure and it's that backing in is safer. It's way more common for people to get hit by a car that's backing out of parking slot that by one backing in. You can't see your surroundings when backing out because of the cars on your both sides but I can see the entire parking slot when I'm backing in.
It's faster to drive forward into a parking spot than to back into one. It's also faster to back out of a parking spot to back into one. Therefore, it's never faster to back into a parking spot.
Skill issue
Yes, the issue is that everybody lacks that skill, so it's faster to park by pulling forward into a spot.
You're clearly married to your opinions so I don't expect you to change your mind but perhaps consider the possibility that someone whose been backing into parking slots daily for over 15 years perhaps doesn't lack that skill. Turns out that practicing makes you better at something. Who would've though.
How’s that work?
A driving lane has significantly more length and width than a parking spot.
But that length and width doesn’t change whether you’re gong forwards or backwards.
Whether you back in or out the space is the same.
Backing into the space, the space is narrow and shallow.
Backing into the lane, the space is wide and deep.
The latter is easier and faster than the former.
Fuck 'em.
You know what I hate? People using their hazards to indicate that they're loading/unloading. You can already indicate towards the pavement to do the same thing and it actually says "hey I'm just pulled in here" instead of using the "something's gone wrong" lights.
Eh, I can understand it though. Say you pull over to the right, have your right blinker on, someone behind you will not see the left light lit up, and if you are already stopped your brake lights aren't on.
With hazards, the full car is displayed.
If it's coming from a place of safety I think it's sensible. I so don't see it as particularly dangerous to adopt, other drivers slow down at most and see you and ignore you at least
That said, if we're coming from the place of safety, usually these instances the person should just fully park instead of pulling over with hazards.
I can understand it, it still bothers me though. I think it's mainly because most of the time it's taxi drivers parking in the worst spots.
Taxi and Uber drivers shouldn't ever be doing it in the first place so 110% agree with you there. It's awful in San Francisco sometimes lol