There’s a third kind I dislike. When I’m at an intersection with a busy street, and there’s only a stop sign (no traffic light), I need to look to that busy cross street to see if there’s traffic. Drives me a little nuts when a big pickup or SUV pulls alongside me and totally blocks my view in that direction. They’re usually sitting high enough that they can see over the roof of my car; they don’t need to pull that far forward to see the cross traffic.
Around here we get semis doing that also, so I feel your pain
There are some rare situations where ctrl-c/ctrl-v are necessary. I much prefer right click copy. I’m a programmer. We do a lot of copy/paste. Using the mouse click method is faster IMHO.
I get furious at the drivers of any vehicle, big or little, who complain about fuel prices they consider disastrously high, pushing them toward bankruptcy, the government ought to do something, and so on, then go right out on the highway at speeds that dramatically lower fuel efficiency.
If you can’t be bothered to save gas with a factor you can easily control (not to mention increasing safety for yourself and others on the road) then do NOT whine about how much fuel costs !
I used to have a similar opinion of people backing in, until I started driving a full size pickup truck daily.
For me, it is very difficult to safely back out of a parking spot in a huge vehicle. The lines of sight are not good and the clearances are way too tight. As a practical note, moving in or out of a spot is much easier when the wheels doing the steering are on the outside of the space–you can do much tighter turns.
Without actually driving a truck daily, one might think that it’s not a big deal, just park in places that are roomy. Problem is, it’s too easy to park in a nice roomy space, unknowingly cutting the corner when pulling in, only to enter panic mode when you get back an hour later finding that you now have vehicles close on either side. There have been embarrassing moments when I had to have my wife outside spotting for me as I backed out.
So, to avoid these situations, I back in, using the back-up camera to guarantee success.
If I see you behind me in a parking lot (not a hotly disputed one) I would roll down my window and wave you on past before beginning the maneuver. It’s just one more of the places where a little bit of kindness for others helps.
ETA: Perhaps this leads to a different question: Why do so many people drive pickup trucks who obviously are not hauling stuff in them? That’s a valid question, and I really do try to haul something around every few months!
My gf owns a “farm truck”, a big Silverado. Before this truck it was a Dodge Dakota. Before that, another big truck.
She likes trucks. She drives her truck to the feed-store for horse feed, bird seed, etc. She could do this in her everyday car, a Subaru SUV, but that’s beside the point. We live in the country, so she has a farm truck.
Oh goody, another chance to vent about the blinding rage that results from hearing someone pronounce 'Reese’s (the candy brand) as " REE SEES". It rhymes with “pieces”, thus the name of the candy that ET likes. It is NOT pronounced so as to rhyme with feces. How the hell did this annoying habit even start? 
Good one. “Ree-Sees” people definitely lose points with me.
Some of them may have the pickup as their only vehicle. My daughter has a smallish older S10, but can’t afford 2 vehicles and 2 insurances. She hauls something maybe every 3 months.
Yes! I started back-in parking many years ago after reading about how many people accidentally run over small children in their driveways. It’s so much safer in busy parking lots! And now that I have a car with a backup camera, it’s simple to do.
I noticed when I was in Oahu that in nearly every parking lot with perpendicular parking spaces, 90% of the vehicles were backed in. Warmed my heart!
Back to the joys of my job:
- People who end sentences with “please and thank you.” Maybe they think they’re being polite,but it always strikes me as very dismissive.
- A co-worker of mine announces “Knock knock!” quite often when she enters a room. Arrrgghhhh.
- We have one tenant that ends Every. Single. Sumbitted. Work order with “Please do ASAP!” Sometimes with multiple exclamation points. Which to my mind kind of levels everything out in importance whether it’s a ceiling collapsing from a flood or a burnt-out bulb in a desk lamp. Like they say in The Incredibles, “if everyone is special, then no one is.”
Actually, it’s more like if (generic) you cannot figure out how to drive something the size of the USS Missouri, then don’t buy a huge truck.
I’m not sure where you are going with that.
In my case, I had driven a Volkswagen GTI for a decade–a car that fits anywhere. After an unfortunate timing chain failure (and learning that they used an “interference” design for their engine) the truck as a daily driver became a necessity.
So I’m simply dealing with the reality of “trucks don’t fit everywhere tiny cars do” and doing my best to not set myself up for failure. Hence, finding ways to minimize risk of being boxed in and improve my ability to turn a tight corner on exit.
I try to be a nice guy and won’t intentionally do anything annoying in front of you if I can help it!
I used to work with a lawyer who ended every single emailed or written request/instruction to me with a question mark.
Please update John Doe’s contact card?
Please format this document?
Please get me the Smith file?
Lady, these are not questions! Drove me crazy.
Explain to me like I’m 5: why should i care whether someone else has backed into a parking space? I’m finding this while discussion kind of mystifying.
Well, I’m pulling in frontways, and backing in is acting like you’re Batman and need to make a quick getaway to save Gotham.
Assuming they got in the middle of the spot, the only infuriating thing about it is that they take 10+ minutes to do it with a lot of pulling out and in so I can’t go around them.
This, more or less. Like I mentioned, I dont care if you wanna back in, just dont block the aisle for 10 minutes while you maneuver in. So, for me, the backing in is a “meh” but the maneuvering and blocking traffic is annoying.
With good camera systems on late-model cars and trucks - especially the ones that provide a bird’s eye exterior view - and good use of the side mirrors, backing in shouldn’t take long at all.
Exactly … but they do.