Why do people do this?

peachyprice

Gers wrote: »

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.

I think most of the people who do reverse into supermarkets car parks must be like you. The old 'this is the way I was taught, this is how it must be done' brigade who will still carry on regardless of the inconvenience. Makes your 'sheep' comment rather ironic

pendragon_arther

peachyprice wrote: »

I think most of the people who do reverse into supermarkets car parks must be like you. The old 'this is the way I was taught, this is how it must be done' brigade who will still carry on regardless of the inconvenience. Makes your 'sheep' comment rather ironic

I rather think it's so they can make a quick getaway after scraping the neighbouring car.

Johnnytwosteps42

pendragon_arther wrote: »

I rather think it's so they can make a quick getaway after scraping the neighbouring car.

this scraping cars is a big problem, this happened to me the other day in your supermarkets

Pollycat

Johnnytwosteps42 wrote: »

this scraping cars is a big problem, this happened to me the other day in your supermarkets

Our supermarkets?

Whose supermarkets?

Do we have a Mr Tesco, Miss Lidl, Doctor Sainsbury, MS Aldi et al as members on here?

Johnnytwosteps42

sorry this engrish is not my first language,

[Deleted User]

Johnnytwosteps42 wrote: »

sorry this engrish is not my first language,

That may be why all your posts appear to be purely for post building purposes.

Malthusian

The only time I've ever damaged someone else's car was when I was about 18 and scraped someone as I tried to park forward in Argos car park. It doesn't help that it's not in the Highway Code. So having recently passed my test I'd probably reverse parked a hundred times and forward parked two or three.

I'm still a bit paranoid about doing it. It's only after about 10 years of driving that I can consistently get into the space in one movement, and I still have to back out and in again 90% of the time because I end up too close to one side. So I can understand why people reverse.

None of us are as bad as one friend of the family who can neither reverse in nor reverse out, so she will drive round and round until she finds two spaces back to back - so she can go in forward and out forward. This manouevre is still known in our family as "doing a [name withheld]".

System

If the car park is fairly full, it's quicker to drive in.

Or in an example which my Dad was a victim, was about to reverse into a bay, some inconsiderate idiot just drove into the bay. It was a out of town leisure park - restaurants, cinema, bowling alley etc.

I also hate it, again in an almost full supermarket car park, where I drove into a space. On leaving, a car is awaiting my departure hovered so close that I found it difficult to get out of the bay.

Mobeer

I almost always reverse in to a space; it makes it easier to leave. I use a basket, not a trolley, so no worries about getting to the boot.

As regards parking next to someone else; why not? I can park in any (non-disabled etc) space. I do think it looks more tidy and structured to park cars together rather than randomly scattered.

Pollycat

Mobeer wrote: »

I almost always reverse in to a space; it makes it easier to leave. I use a basket, not a trolley, so no worries about getting to the boot.

As regards parking next to someone else; why not? I can park in any (non-disabled etc) space. I do think it looks more tidy and structured to park cars together rather than randomly scattered.

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Even my OCD tendencies don't stretch that far.