Backing Your Car Into Parking Space?

• O-Trap

  

  I do it as long as I'm not getting in the way of someone else.
  
  Reason? In the event that I do back into something, I'd prefer it be a post, a wall, or something else I'm not going to damage instead of someone else's car.
• O-Trap

  

  Belly35;1364936 wrote:I take two space whenever possible

  I intentionally park really close to the drivers side of people like you to make it ridiculously difficult to get into your car.
• adog

  Don't normally back into a parking space but will pull thru as someone else stated. Years ago, I had an old beater work car that looked like crap...dents, rust , the whole gambit.....whenever I needed to go to the mall, I would drive this car because I did not want assholes dinging my other car with their doors etc. I would park my beater car in a crowded lot...and when I would return a few hrs later..usually there would not be a car on EITHER side of me, in front of me and sometimes behind me in next row.....Nobody wanted to park next to the guy who obviously did not care what his car looked like......
• GoChiefs

  

  O-Trap;1364940 wrote:I intentionally park really close to the drivers side of people like you to make it ridiculously difficult to get into your car.

  
  I have done this, to the extent when I came out about 45 minutes later, the bitch was just standing there waiting because she couldn't get in her car.
• Heelz

  

  As mentioned above when I'm at an event with lots of people it's faster and easier to get out of the space.
• bigkahuna

  O-Trap;1364940 wrote:I intentionally park really close to the drivers side of people like you to make it ridiculously difficult to get into your car.

  I do this as well. My house in college had its own gravel parking lot, and one of my roommate's friends took up more than one spot to the point to where I couldn't park unless I backed in. So, I backed in and parked so close to him that I had to climb out of my passenger door. It was worth it though.
• fan_from_texas

  It's supposed to be safer. If I'm in our parking garage and no one else is around, I'll back in, more as a way to stay in practice than anything else. If someone is waiting, though, I just pull straight in.
• ytownfootball

  

  Given that you have to back up once, it is safer (unless you can pull forward of course). But backing up when you arrive is the better choice, you can see your surroundings etc...you never know when the Candy Van may be frequenting the same thing you are and obstruct your view when you want to leave. It's safer and we're actually required to back in where I work because of this, though otherwise I rarely do so.
• hasbeen

  

  As others said, I pull through if I can. Like Mcburg said, I also park as far away as is reasonably possible.
  
  I back in only on occasion.
• Sonofanump

  It is safer to pull forward out of the space whether you pull through or back in. It has been proved with studies. Link?
• TedSheckler

  

  Only in parking garages do I back in.
• GoPens

  

  Wish it was manditory to back in at sporting events when everyone leaves at once. Nothing worse than sitting there waiting while some douche stops everyone to back out. Especially in tight parking garages.
• cat_lover

  Some times I do. It just depends on the parking spot.
• GoChiefs

  

  Sonofanump;1364979 wrote:It is safer to pull forward out of the space whether you pull through or back in. It has been proved with studies. Link?

  
  
  http://theweek.com/article/index/212052/why-back-in-parking-is-safer
• hasbeen

  

  I just parked. I'm going to have to back in.
• queencitybuckeye

  gut;1364929 wrote:If that's a one-way street, backing in and pulling straight out is actually easier and more convenient.

  if it isn't, every one of them is parking illegally.
• Classyposter58

  

  I always back in as well
• Ironman92

  

  Prefer to parallel.
• Belly35

  

  O-Trap;1364940 wrote:I intentionally park really close to the drivers side of people like you to make it ridiculously difficult to get into your car.

  That would be difficult to do because I angle my truck in ...that is why I take two spaces .... Mofo:rolleyes:
• GoChiefs

  

  Belly35;1365196 wrote:That would be difficult to do because I angle my truck in ...that is why I take two spaces .... Mofo:rolleyes:

  
  I can angle my car in right beside yours. Not difficult at all.
• O-Trap

  

  Belly35;1365196 wrote:That would be difficult to do because I angle my truck in ...that is why I take two spaces .... Mofo:rolleyes:

  How is it difficult to park at an angle as well?
  
  Done it. Would do it again.
• Wally

  I've been told that HR guys ask this in job interviews. If you back inot the space it means you are more interested in leaving as fast as you can instead of getting to work as fast as you can.
• dlazz

  O-Trap;1364940 wrote:I intentionally park really close to the drivers side of people like you to make it ridiculously difficult to get into your car.

  Some dickhead did this to me at work the other day, except he made a conscious effort to park close to me and THEN hit my car door with his, leaving a scratch.
• queencitybuckeye

  Wally;1365699 wrote:I've been told that HR guys ask this in job interviews. If you back inot the space it means you are more interested in leaving as fast as you can instead of getting to work as fast as you can.

  Yet another reason that HR guys should die painfully.
• thavoice

  ernest_t_bass;1364806 wrote:Any of you make a conscientious effort to do this? It drives me nuts when people do this... No idea why. You can take the time to back in, but are too ****ing stoopid to back the **** out?

  Backing in is a safety thing. I know at the two UPS centers I worked at that is all you saw in the lot. Drivers are taught to back in and even did so with their POV's.
  
  Think about it.....you have a better line of sight backin IN as you do backing OUT. If you back in you can see clearly both sides. WHen you back out you can have a blocked view by vehicles on either side.