• kautau@lemmy.world
    152·
    12 天前

    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

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      78·
      12 天前

      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.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    30·
    12 天前

    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.

      • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
        8·
        12 天前

        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.

        • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 天前

          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

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 天前

        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.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      5·
      12 天前

      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…

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 天前

        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.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      11 天前

      Even my cats gets up and moves when he flops on my lap the wrong way. Don’t blame all cats for this.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      11 天前

      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.

      • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 天前

        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!

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      3·
      12 天前

      I remember going to a post office and a car had gone in partially through the wall. They weren’t able to try again.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    12 天前

    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.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      1·
      6 天前

      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

      • Pero@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        12 天前

        Smh, can’t believe my secret to perfect parking got leaked 😒

      • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        12 天前

        git checkout -b car

        git rebase new_parking_spot

        git push --force-with-lease

    • _bcron@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      12 天前

      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

    • QDgwZjQYdfbnMdMNQ@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      8 天前

      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?

  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 天前

    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.]

    • HeChomk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      12 天前

      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.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          12 天前

          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.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        12 天前

        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?

        • psud@aussie.zone
          1·
          6 天前

          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

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        12 天前

        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).

        • TheUniverseandNetworks@lemmy.world
          3·
          12 天前

          “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.

      • Noobnarski@lemmy.world
        5·
        12 天前

        If I want to be able to access my trunk easily I will have to go forwards.

        Otherwise I always go backwards.

      • tiramichu@lemm.ee
        5·
        12 天前

        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”

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        3·
        12 天前

        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.