and another, related wild take. you can miss an exit or a turn and keep going straight. it may take longer to get where you’re going, and it may be frustrating, but it’s safer and better than cutting people off
The only time I’ve ever said fuck in front of my mother was when she cut across 3 lanes of traffic to get to the exit, and ended up getting stuck in the zebra divider until there was a big gap in traffic.
When she slammed on the brake and jerked the wheel, upon realizing she wanted to make the exit I just yelled “What that FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?”
Surprisingly even though I was still in high school, she never mentioned it. Either she realized she fucked up and let it slide or she didn’t hear me over the honking of cars, a semi, and the yelling of my dad and sister.
A bad driver never misses their exit.
😂 I imagined this in Domenic Turettos voice
“It doesn’t matter how many lanes the highway has. I’ll cut through all of them to get to my family.”
Ffs, I wish people thought this way. Oh shit, I need to cross five lanes of traffic right now!
This exit or death!
It should also be a lesson to pay better attention.
The only people who need to hear this won’t listen.
No, if you failed the first time you failed your life
Harrier Dubois, is that you?
My partner backed into a space yesterday and asked me, “are we good?” I said, “not great.” She opened her door to check the line, laughed, re-parked. Some people understand.
Similarly, if you’re not in an extra long vehicle, you don’t need to veer way out to the left to make a right hand turn. A KIA Sonota isn’t an extra long vehicle.
Also on this note, if there’s a turn lane get fully in it before turning. It may as well not even be there at all if you’re gonna sit half out into the driving lane to slow down.
Blinker, turn lane, brakes. People tend to apply these in the wrong order.
And most importantly: always believe in yourself.
I’ve seen that happen way more frequently recently and it’s getting pretty annoying
That actually just happened to me today, and yesterday, and probably the day before that too
Edit: it happened again today too, held up the entire lane!
But they are going to miss the racing line!
Probably just someone traumatized by a sidewall puncture.
LOL I’ve done this many times. It’s a matter of pride. I don’t want people to be like, did a cat park this?
Cats tend to be exactly inside the box, I would expect them to park inside the lines every single time.
You haven’t met my mother’s Siamese. The cross eyed bastard will scratch around in the box, line up, and spray all over the wall/floor outside of the box.
Lmfao I had to start using the covers for litter boxes since one of mine does this. I feel bad, like I know it’s not great for them to feel confined but…I am not letting that continue
My two cats have an odd outside-the-box thing. One likes to leave a back leg hanging out, usually off the edge of whatever he’s sleeping on. The other does it with a front leg. They’ve always been very consistent about it.
maaan, one time i pulled in awkward to the corner of a parking lot at a trail head to wait for my friend. i was pulled forward and at an angle so i could see past the other cars and know if my friend had driven past the lot. the was no cell service so i had to go flag him down when i saw him since the rail head wasn’t very well marked. I made sure i wasn’t in anyone’s way, but it was an ugly ass park job if it had actually been a park job.
as I was sat there with my windows cracked two dudes walked past and spent like 5 minutes shitting on Subaru drivers because of my park job. they didn’t see me in the car i guess. like, they were just making incorrect assumptions, but it still kinda hurt…
Sometimes it helps if you remind yourself that criticizing a group they don’t belong to fills some peoples need to feel more powerful. For me adjusting my bad parking is just perfectionism or OCD. I even edit most of my comments after posting LOL.
Even my cats gets up and moves when he flops on my lap the wrong way. Don’t blame all cats for this.
Is a cat park kind of like a dog park?
depends on how ‘unsuccessful’ you were the first try.
I remember going to a post office and a car had gone in partially through the wall. They weren’t able to try again.
While I get the point, this does overlook the seeming law of physics that if you fuck it up once, you will fuck it up every subsequent time.
Wait people need to hear this? I thought this was common knowledge and that ass holes existed
Explain how
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get out of the car
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disassemble the car
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reassemble everything in an appropriate location
Smh, can’t believe my secret to perfect parking got leaked 😒
git checkout -b car
git rebase new_parking_spot
git push --force-with-lease
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- Pretend you need to leave.
- Pretend to drive away.
- Pretend to remember that you actually need to be here.
- Pretend to not be disappointed in yourself.
- Park again.
Floor it?
Let’s say you turn right to park in a spot but your turning radius sucks so you’re at an angle and your rear right is really close to the car sitting in the space to the right.
Crank the wheel right as far as it’ll go and crawl forward a handful of inches so the front of your car is equally close to the car on the right and you’re parallel with that car but really close.
Straighten your wheels, reverse out all parallel to that car until your front bumper clears that car, then crank the wheel left and crawl in reverse a handful of inches, until the rear of the car is aiming in the other direction.
Straighten the wheel and crawl another couple of inches, until your rear axle is centered in the space, then put it in drive and pull right in now that the rear is centered.
You’ll see some people try to straighten out but they just straight up reverse out of the spot and wind up back at square one, you don’t want to do that, you want to use a bit excess room in front of and behind the car to essentially guide the offending axle into place, once that’s done rest follows
I once saw a lady struggle to park in her spot for like 30s, back out, then leave. Another valid technique.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Leave the spot just the opposite way to which you entered the spot. Then try again.
Ideal: exactly centered between whatever defines the spot (lines, cars, kerbs)
Ideal’: close to a kerb and far from the neighboring car/line
Find a ramp, do a loop.
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No. I take my cat as an example. If it fits, it sits.
🎵 Repark my Firebird! Considerate parking is my only desire bird! 🎵
You’re damned either way. If you try to fix it, you’ll bonk the cars next to you. Literally unavoidable.
If you’re in a situation where you can’t get out of the space without bonking the cars next to you, wouldn’t you most likely have had to bonk them to get in?
I guess some people are really bad drivers
I did get it right the first time. if you don’t like it that sounds like a you problem.
If you’re always reparking your car you run a risk of a collision with a distracted driver. If someone sees a car going into a spot its not unreasonable to think they’d assume the car is out of play and can be ignored. When you back out to adjust back between the lines eventually one of those times someone won’t be paying attention to you.]
Please stop driving. You are putting people at risk. 🤦♂️
Don’t go in forwards. Never understood why people insist on going forwards into a parking bay. Less control, needs more room, harder to leave.
I just assume people that go in forwards can’t drive.
Looking at any parking lot, this means 99% of people can’t drive.
Looking at any road, that number seems about right.
There is certainly a wide swath of the population I wouldn’t trust with driving a two ton steel brick, but this is the world that has been built for us.
My logic is that driving into a parking is more difficult than exiting, and that driving backwards is more difficult than driving forward.
So why choose both difficult options when you can make exiting as easy as entering?
For safety.
When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up
When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of
Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
If I want to be able to access my trunk easily I will have to go forwards.
Otherwise I always go backwards.
This is the way
Significantly less turning going in forwards, with the exception of parallel parking where both are pretty even, but some people see you pass a park and go right up your arse even though you wanted to back in.
Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side).
“Also car has great visibility forward and fuck all backwards, rear view mirror is like double the size of the rear window (in the reflection, not side by side).”
Yeah - this is exactly why you should reverse park. When you come out again into potentially a stream of traffic, if you reverse park, you’re coming out forwards, you can see them & they can see you. If you forward park you have literally no idea what you’re backing out into.
We must have different parks, if there’s a car next to me regardless of facing forwards or back, I can’t see shit til I’m half out the park anyway. Part of that is most cars being twice the height of my previously normal sized car I guess, so I can’t see through their windows anymore.
How many kilometers is your hood?
Wait, sorry. If cars are that big around you, you must be American. Let me rephrase: how many Washington Monuments is your hood?
Australian, I actually took a photo to show my point today. Technically didn’t reverse back because it’s back to back parks and you can drive through the first to be in the second, but same end result. My hood is 0.82% of the washington monument, presuming the information i found was correct (1400mm hood, 169m monument).
Sorry about it being a discord link, that’s just the most convenient thing for me right now as apparently I can’t just upload the image to the comment. Or I just don’t know how, either way. Can’t see shit to my left, I just happened to know there wasn’t anyone coming from when I got in the car, but if I didn’t it would be a massive pain in the arse despite leaving the park forwards.
I’d argue you still have a lot more visibility than if you were facing the other way. And you have to slide out a lot less to get a good-enough line of sight.
Maybe a parking bay refers to something I’m not familiar with, but if it’s just a parking lot…backing out to leave is easier than some of the failures I often see backing in, when they could have just pulled in straight. Less control? Parking is something on even the US driving test, which is a joke itself. If you can’t park a vehicle then you certainly shouldn’t be moving it at speed.
I was just never taught how to back in to a parking spot.
