Our local Walmart has the angled parking spaces and supposedly one way traffic. Except all the traffic lanes have plenty of room for two vehicles to pass each other. I go whichever way is quik/convenient, and have never made anyone stop so I can get by. It is a huge parking lot. It makes no sense to me.
That’s one of my cars also. Don’t forget the absolute best all around visibility of any vehicle I can think of. Just a slight turn of the shoulders and you can see everything.
Yes! I love my red box on wheels! When I had a horse I could put the back seat down and fit six bales of hay or ten bags of shavings in it!
That did, of course, cut down the rear visibility considerably.
And apparently those toaster-cars have great gas mileage, too.
Oh, yes, even as old as it is (regularly maintained) I get low to mid 30s MPG. It’s a bit dinged here and there but still in remarkably good shape overall. No doubt it helps to have a garage for it, given the ravages of New England winters.
This seems incredibly dangerous. When you’re backing out of an angled space you’re looking for cars coming from the left, and maybe pedestrians coming from the right (at walking speed).
Surprising them by going the wrong way because you think there’s plenty of room doesn’t seem very clever to me.
I’m not a traffic engineer by any means, but I’ve been in many discussions of parking lot layouts for shopping centers. The decision on angled vs perpendicular parking is based on a number of factors, and lanes are supposed to be wide enough for two cars to pass, but they are NOT supposed to be two way.
Regardless of whether or not you’re in a public roadway or whether or not you agree with the laid out traffic pattern, doing unexpected things while driving is not safe.
A former coworker who allegedly was an experienced design engineer got in an argument with my colleague because he could not understand that the left hand side of an aircraft is always the left hand side of the aircraft when referring to it on drawings and documents, even if the perspective has the viewer looking towards the tail of the plane.
It’s akin to insisting that “North” is directly in front of you, even if you’re looking at the sunset.
I saw this moron misspell his own name three different ways, and once spent three days working on a design change based on a part for an entirely different plane because he just looked up a key word in the drawing database, like “jumpseat”, picked one at random, and just went for it. Nevermind that the plane he was supposed to be designing for didn’t even have that feature.
He found a new job before he could be fired, and good fucking riddance. I imagine he’s torturing some other competent people wherever he ended up.
I don’t think you ever drove anything with a backup camera until a couple year ago, when we rented a Jeep compass for about a month. And since then, the only other time, much more recently, was when we test drove the Jeep Cherokee that we ended up buying, and you took a brief turn at the wheel.
(Technically, both cars are community property, belonging as much to each of us as to the other, but we’ve come to think of the Jeep as mine, and the Dart as @Seanette’s; and she really hasn’t shown much interest in driving the Jeep, especially when we take it places that the Dart cannot go. When we had the rented Compass, she did take a turn at driving it through the one significant Jeep-worthy road we had found by then, that runs from a place Google/Waze-searchable as “Deer Creek Hills Access Road”, to a small community called Latrobe; overall, she doesn’t seem nearly as impressed as I am with the off-road driving experience. I guess I should count myself fortunate that she’s willing to come along with me as a passenger on such runs.)
Of course, between @Seanette and me, now, we have one car that would easily drive over those concrete barriers and barely notice them, and another car that might have trouble climbing over a painted line, if the paint was applied very thickly.
My Jeep is the only car that @Seanette and/or I have ever had with a backup camera, other than a somewhat lesser Jeep that we rented for about a month, two years ago. Once I got the hang of it, I have found that I get a better view of a parking space, and an easier time getting positioned properly within it, if I back in using the rear camera, than if I go forward, using what I can see with the windows and mirrors.
I might offer proof of my commitment to using the stall until I am fully relieved, in the form of a single turd scooped out of the bowl and dropped over the door onto the gentleman’s head.
However, that may well enrage him to the point of cerebral embolism, and I don’t really want to murder someone over a toilet use debacle.
Plus, when I receive my inevitable sentence for assault with a deadly weapon, and I get the question, “what are you in for?” … well, its just going to be a bit embarrassing.
Just knock, knock, knock back.
That’s one strategy. But if you truly want to recalibrate the clueless stall-puller’s behavior, there’s a more effective method. As he tugs on the door like it’s the last can of soda in a vending machine, dramatically fling it open and proclaim “OCCUPADO!” with the intensity of an opera baritone. Simultaneously, unleash a stream of urine reminiscent of an unhinged firehose, artistically soaking his pant legs. That should make him reconsider his life choices—or at least his restroom etiquette.
I worked somewhere that had a bathroom in the back. One toilet and a sink. I was in the bathroom with the door locked.
There was a knock at the door, which was a first. The new receptionist, Kelly, asked if I was in there. I replied that I was, indeed. She then started telling me about someone n the phone who wanted to know what day……and I screamed, “TAKE A FUCKING MESSAGE”. And she took a fucking message.
If I eventually wind up with a car that has a backup camera, I might reconsider the issue. But I don’t have one now.
And I don’t have any problem getting positioned properly if I drive forward into a parking space; and then, if possible, continue forward into the facing space so that I can pull forward out of that one. I routinely park further away from the store so that I can find a pull-through space. I do know at least one parking lot that doesn’t have any.
I worked as a college student in a Modern Language Center (language lab and library) where the manager (40s male) had an ongoing issue with constipation. He was in a stall very often. It took about a week for me to realize that “Take this to Bruce in his office” actually meant that I (male) needed to take a memo or form for the administrative staff (all female) into the restroom and pass it under the stall door. It also frequently meant that I had to converse with him and/or get his signature. This didn’t happen from time to time…this happened several times a week for almost four years.
When he heard the door to the bathroom open, he would usually yell out “Second stall!” to speed things up.
That is my preference as well.
This is why the U.S. Navy utilizes the very useful terms “port” and “starboard” which is the left and right side of a vessel from the perspective of the vessel itself. The port side of a vessel is always the port side, no matter which way you are facing.
Aren’t port and starboard also used in reference to aircraft?
They are on U.S. Navy aircraft. 
No idea what the Air Force does.
With that said, “port” and “starboard” are generally used only for physical locations on the vessel (i.e. “the trim pump is located back aft near the port bulkhead”). The U.S. Navy uses “left” and “right” for rudder orders.