Maybe it has always been this way but for the last few years, I’ve seen more and more people parking by backing in. Maybe it’s because with the newer cars, they have rear-view cameras.
But I’ve noticed this actually causes more problems for other drivers which is why I don’t like it. The other day, I pulled into a Starbucks and thought a motorist was going to pull into the parking spot with the front end adjacent to the sidewalk outside the store, but they instead back into another spot across from that row of parking spaces.
Other times at gas stations/convenience stores, I’ve observe people looking like they are going to the pump island to get gas but they back up near the front of the store. And I’ve noticed this takes them longer.
Now, I don’t mind waiting a few seconds more. But I think it’s inconsiderate of other motorists to block other motorists. I was at my doctor’s office a few months ago and a woman motorist was trying to back into a parking spot on an incline or decline depending on how your perception. But she wasn’t successful on the first try, not the second and not even the third.
Now here’s the funny part. I believe she just went in to drop something off to another doctor or pick something. I couldn’t believe it. When I was a teen working summer jobs, people would pull up on the fire lanes and park. One time I had to bag groceries for a woman when I worked at the Piggly Wiggly. It was July 4 and her husband had pulled a big huge Suburban SUV into the fire lane. And he had Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” blasting.
I got this idea of this guy was pompously driving around on July 4 with this song blasting to passive-aggressively others who weren’t dressed like the Statue of Liberty’s pimp.
Now, obviously, this is a huge pick-up truck in this photo and I don’t think anything has ever been hauled in it because it might scratch the plastic in the bed. And the guy driving this had obviously gone into the door to buy some beer. But he was courteous and held the door open for me as I went in.
It could just be a young man getting on the band wagon with a trend that seemed to start post-Covid. I also know in the next 10 years a lot of these trucks will probably be traded in for the next favored automobile. (Hell, there were so many people I knew at school who just had to drive a Mustang 5.0 but I’m sure they wouldn’t even be caught near a Mustang now.)
I just get really annoyed by people who park like this because the often fit the same profiles.
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 