Reverse Parking

[tom_nieto]

What if you don't have either?

You park any which way like the rest of the peasants

 

[Feek]

Genuinely forget the last time I drove forward into a parking space. Twenty years ago? Thirty? Forty? It could be any of those.

Never had a problem getting into the boot in a supermarket, just park a few inches away from the wall, the post, the car behind, whatever. The supermarket I go to the most is Tesco and there’s a walkway behind the car so I back up until I’m about an inch away from the posts.

Forward parking is wrong 100% of the time.

That’s me on the right at the hospital (and before I fixed the parking sensors).

 

[Infidelus]

Also pretty much always reverse park everywhere, including supermarkets unless I'm feeling completely lazy as it doesn't take much effort to get the shopping off the trolley and into the boot.

 

[mrk]

I think we can settle this fairly easily, the GPT4 overlords have spoken:

 

[marin]

I never reverse park, have camera's and sensors all round on my car.

Only people I know who have had an accident while parking are the ones who reverse park - one ran over his dog and the other hit a kid.

 

[mrk]

Sounds like people who thought they were good at parking but ultimately weren't and should have stuck to forward parking and taking extra driving lessons on spatial awareness lol

 

[jaybee]

Supermarkets, no for the boot access reasons noted above. Anywhere else, I’ll reverse into a space to make a quick getaway easier

Spoken like a true criminal and/or dealer.
I do the same.

 

[jaybee]

Genuinely forget the last time I drove forward into a parking space. Twenty years ago? Thirty? Forty? It could be any of those.

Never had a problem getting into the boot in a supermarket, just park a few inches away from the wall, the post, the car behind, whatever. The supermarket I go to the most is Tesco and there’s a walkway behind the car so I back up until I’m about an inch away from the posts.

Forward parking is wrong 100% of the time.

That’s me on the right at the hospital (and before I fixed the parking sensors).

How are you bringing the trolley full of avocados and bread up to the boot though?
It ain't fitting down the side of the car unless you shop in costco with big wide bays or you park in parent and child.

 

[Feek]

How are you bringing the trolley full of avocados and bread up to the boot though?

That was the hospital where I was having my sense of parking superiority checked. Obviously, I passed with flying colours.

The supermarket I go to the most is Tesco and there’s a walkway behind the car

 

[jaybee]

Sometimes I park in frontwards because I don't want to go boot to boot with a big heffing SUV where Sharon will come out and press the automatic boot opener straight into my rear end without having checked the gap between vehicles.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I reverse park most of the time. But sometimes at work i'll park in forwards if it's an end space that allows me to open the driver's door fully.

 

[theone8181]

I never reverse park, have camera's and sensors all round on my car.

Only people I know who have had an accident while parking are the ones who reverse park - one ran over his dog and the other hit a kid.

That's far more likely when reversing out of a spot imo.

 

[gailjon]

I always park nose in, angled so that no one can park in the two spaces next to me. Works well most of the time, but there always seems to be accidental scratches in the doors from people who are careless with their trollies...

 

[Infidelus]

Maybe if you parked properly people would be less 'careless'.

 

[bazzabear]

reverse parking was one of the reasons I married her.

Is this some kind of euphemism?

 

[Scuzi]

Is this some kind of euphemism?

Well, yeah. That too.

 

[ShiWarrior]

I always park nose in, angled so that no one can park in the two spaces next to me.

That's one way to get your car keyed or scratched

 

[413x]

I drive in because I lazy. Find it easier to reverse out than in.

 

[Nasher]

That's one way to get your car keyed or scratched

Or a disposable banger jammed there with a 3mm gap, like I do with mine when people do that