Parking rant

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a real problem with people who back into parking stalls. The only time where I feel it is fine is in a parking lot where you can pull through, other than that it is a huge inconvenience. Seriously. Those who do it try and tell me it is "safer" and that if you are good at it it doesn't take any longer than pulling into a spot. I say bull!

Oh and on top of that it is annoying because you KNOW that one way or another you are looking over your shoulder and "backing" up....at least when you are doing it as backing out, you are not making it harder on others. To back in does, and let me just tell you about those:

No matter what you say, it DOES take longer. Because by backing in, you have to align your car with the stall and make sure you are not hitting another car.
The problem with that is that not everyone can do that well and so the number 2 issue is the way it is parked. Especially big trucks. How many times have you had to squeeze into your car because the car next to you is too close to one line or the other? Not many but it does happen. Now when they back in it happens SO much more often. Many times I have been forced to park at an odd angle because they can't park straight pulling in backwards.

Another issue is that if there are cars behind you while looking for a spot, or a car coming up the aisle, then those parking backwards make US have to back up too. They have to pull forward to swing backwards so we just keep following to have them back up, meaning then we have to stop, put our car in reverse and then back up etc etc....LAME

So what brought this to a head for me today, besides the fact that this has always bugged me and I have said this many times, is that stupid lady at work who always pulls in backward had her door wide open into the adjoining spot, that was empty, that I was going to pull into, but because the door was swinging the other way I had to WAIT for her to close it before I could pull in. Now, if you saw someone waiting to pull into the spot that you were preventing them from doing so, you would have closed your door and waited to finish your getting ready to get out until they had not been inconvenienced anymore...At least I would hope that was your thought process. BUT NO! she continued to gather her things and haul herself out of her car. Seeing that she wasn't going to be courteous, i REVERSED, and pulled into a spot a few stalls down. I had parked, gotten out, and started walking just as she finished getting out and started walking. I mean seriously!

On a side note, she is so inconsiderate that she got to the door before me and opened it and then just let it close, didn't hold it open knowing someone was coming so if that is how she is i should just expect that kind of thing from her. Her parents did a major fail on teaching her life manners and norms. She is not a young kid either.