Why do people do this?

googler

Strikes me all this anguish would be averted if the supermarkets would just make each space 10-15% bigger.

poppystar

helcat26 wrote: »

He looked a bit stumped by this and mumbled something about personal safety you can get away quicker.

I personally do not think it helps your personal safety, as when you reverse out of your parking space you get to see if a psycho has hidden in your back seat!:)

The quicker get away also applies to car thieves who prefer to choose a car that is facing outward - which is another reason to not reverse in to spaces in car parks!

barbiedoll

ScarletMarble wrote: »

I did ask this question to the lady that parked next to me. She said, she didn't want to leave her car lonely. Cars don't have personalities!!

Oh dear. You just know that her car has a name. And possibly eyelashes and a sticker that says "Powered by fairydust" or some such nonsense! :rotfl:

I will stick my head above the parapet and admit that I parked next to a "lonely" vehicle early yesterday morning when I went shopping.

But only because it was blowing a gale and I thought that I may get some protection from the wind/rain if parked next to the large van. Which had gone by the time I finished anyway, so it was a waste of time. I did leave the driver plenty of room to get in and out though!

baza52

poppystar wrote: »

The quicker get away also applies to car thieves who prefer to choose a car that is facing outward - which is another reason to not reverse in to spaces in car parks!

I hardly doubt a car thief chooses a car to steal by the way its parked lol.
Perhaps people reverse park to take advantage of rear parking sensors. I realise some cars also have front sensors but they are far more common on the rear of a car.

Gers

I've always reverse-parked, it was the way I was taught by the ex-police driving instructor (in a big old Cambridge - might have been an Oxford -with column shift). Now I actually feel uncomfortable when I forward park - and I know it's odd!

The furtherest away and end space is my bay of choice too. I think the 'herd' instinct kicks in with some people, bit like sheep.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Just been to W8rz, you get a better class of car there, and a better twit. For the second time in a week, a decent 15 plate 4x4 has posted itself. Nice scratches, but will need more than T-cut to sort out.

dragonsoup

I always reverse park at the supermarket. Much safer as you are reversing into a controlled space. Reversing out into the access roads is much more dangerous and the chances of hitting a pedestrian or another car is much higher.

People's observation skills are so poor nowadays - watch the number who walk along head down texting for example and the speed at which some drivers whizz down the access roads in their hurry to be gone. Not to mention the idiot directly opposite who chooses to start moving out of his space whilst you are still moving out of yours.

I stand a much better chance of avoiding the hazards coming out front first.

As for the lone car syndrome - I really don't know unless they are doing it just as a wind up which is very likely!

Bigphil1474

My dad always told me to park next to a car which was nicer than mine - that way they were less likely to dent your door when getting into theirs, and theirs was more likely to be nicked than yours. I think the first is probably true, but the latter has been disproved on at least 2 occasions unfortunately.

Deep_In_Debt

googler wrote: »

Strikes me all this anguish would be averted if the supermarkets would just make each space 10-15% bigger.

Not sure that would help tbh as I'm sure people will still park too close regardless of the sizes of the spaces.

zagubov

googler wrote: »

Strikes me all this anguish would be averted if the supermarkets would just make each space 10-15% bigger.

They're trying to make more customers squeeze in so they'd only expand the space by making it 15% taller.

baza52 wrote: »

why don't you park you car and then hide somewhere until someone parks next to you?
You could then ask them the question and come back here with the answer.

This reads like one of those Viz "Top Tips"
"Find out why other drivers park next to your car in a deserted car park by hiding in your boot and jumping out to question them as they get out of their car".
Followed by "Jump leads make a useful and impromptu heart re-starter when a fellow-driver has had an unexpected heart attack in the car next to you in a car park due to being confronted by an alarming stranger"