Missouri Sportswriter Murdered in Possible Road Rage Incident

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Can I echo everyone's pleas to take a deep breath and calm down out there...with the exception of unleashing all sorts of pent-up rage at people who must forking back into a parking spot? These forkers are everywhere. They don't care that the parking lot is jammed with people coming in both directions and that they're about to gum up the works even more. They need to pull ahead of the spot, hit the breaks, drop the car into reverse and back into their spot. Why? Who the fork knows? Back when we were a proper country, people never thought twice about swinging into a spot and then having to back out when they left, even if it required a slow and gradual reverse. I guess someone somewhere decided just driving out of a parking spot saved time. fork 'em. There. I feel better.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

In my area, no one who backs into a parking spot can pull that off without taking 2 or 3 tries at it. So the forkers aren't even good at it.

You know who doesn't need to take 2 or 3 tries to get in or out of a parking spot? Normal people who just pull into it to begin with.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

In my area, no one who backs into a parking spot can pull that off without taking 2 or 3 tries at it.

This despite reverse cameras having been required on new cars for how long now?

 

[Twirling Time]

Can I echo everyone's pleas to take a deep breath and calm down out there...with the exception of unleashing all sorts of pent-up rage at people who must forking back into a parking spot? These forkers are everywhere. They don't care that the parking lot is jammed with people coming in both directions and that they're about to gum up the works even more. They need to pull ahead of the spot, hit the breaks, drop the car into reverse and back into their spot. Why? Who the fork knows? Back when we were a proper country, people never thought twice about swinging into a spot and then having to back out when they left, even if it required a slow and gradual reverse. I guess someone somewhere decided just driving out of a parking spot saved time. fork 'em. There. I feel better.

It's for a quick getaway. C'mon, get with the community.

 

[SixToe]

They back in so they can bug out quickly when shirt hits the fan to spark TEOTWAWKI

Gotta get away fast from the grocery store in the $68,000 pickup with $20,000 of accessories and lift kit to avoid being caught up in the purge.

 

[Hermes]

How does it take them three tries to back in when the cars now practically guide themselves into parking spots with cameras, lit guides and beeps to keep you lined up?

The people who shouldn't be driving third row vehicles find new ways at my son's school every morning.

 

[Driftwood]

I saw some lady pitching a fit the other day because she had backed or most likely pulled all the way through to her spot. While she was in the store, a big truck pulled into the spot behind her. She was so deep into it, and the truck was so big, she couldn't open her rear lid to put her stuff in. I don't fault the truck driver on that one.

 

[Cosmo]

It seems to be a millennial/Gen Z thing. Seriously. The younger people in my office and interns tend to back into their spots. I actually had to tell our comms intern a couple of years ago to quit doing it with the company car because it was a pain in the ass to load stuff into the trunk the way he was parking it.

 

[spikechiquet]

IIRC the backing into a spot is standard for a lot of factory job workers, where if there was an emergency where people needed to GTFO quickly (if the factory was about to explode, etc), it's easier to jump in and gun it than back out when seconds matter.
Could just be an old wives' tale though.

 

[poindexter]

Exploding factories?

 

[Driftwood]

Angled spots should be the standard.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I've noticed more and more people doing the pull-through in angled spots, which then forks things up when they pull out and are going the wrong way down the parking lane.

God, I feel like my father shaking his fist at the world.