Pull through parkers - please be careful and pull through slowly.
I have on more than one occasion had someone pull through while I, on the other side having pulled in parked, was just opening my door, not at all expecting someone to speedily pull through from that direction. I was more carefully looking to be sure someone wasn’t coming in from “the usual direction.”
“Pulling through” when there are cars on either side of the space and you do not have a very wide field of vision as to who may be coming in the other way is an unsafe practice. Don’t do this unless you are willing to park further out in the lot where you are surrounded by empty spaces.
How do I get to this alternate universe? I think I might enjoy living there. 
Yes. I’m almost perfect at getting it right the first time. The problem is drivers who don’t understand that parallel parking is an actual thing. Multiple times I’ve pulled alongside the parked car (ahead of the space), dutifully signalling my intent. But as I prepare to reverse into the open slot, Bubba is 18 inches behind me in his pickup - utterly confused as to why someone wants to back up in the street.
That’s a problem with back-in parking too. The would be back-in parker drives past the open spot and then put the car in reverse. At least in the two parking locations I frequent the most, our office garage and the shopping center where our favorite grocery store is, there is likely a car following you closely enough that they will be blocking you at least psychologically, if not physically. And will honk furiously when your reverse lights come on.
That’s why at work we ban back-in parking on the first two levels because the delays back up traffic out of the garage and into the street, which the City is not happy about. The ban doesn’t stop everyone.
I always back into parking spaces unless conditions such as traffic simply won’t allow it or grocery/costco shopping requires more than just a casual access to opening of the Acadia’s back hatch. I even back into my front driveway-attached garage because of the way our street curves and with vehicles or our next door neighbour parking his da*m 5th wheel trailer on the street causing visibility issues.
Something I watched someone do today, which I thought about asking folks in this thread about:
I went to a local grocery store this afternoon. Their parking lot is laid out with diagonal parking spots, though as you drive up a lane in the lot, only the parking spots on your right side are oriented “correctly” for you to easily pull into – the spots on your left side are oriented to be “correct” for people driving in the other direction.
This makes it a little different from the layout in most parking lots with diagonal parking, where you can easily pull forward into spots on either side of you. And, yes, the driving lanes in the lot are wide enough to allow two cars to pass each other, and effectively work like two-way streets, as far as how people drive through them.
As I was getting out of my car, I watched a guy back into a diagonal space: what I think he had done (I didn’t see him start his maneuver) was drive past it, then cross over to park in the “left” side spots (relative to how he had been driving up the lane), so that he could wind up parked nose-out.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do something like that before.
This thread has turned me into a consistent back in parker. I used to be sporadic, now I do it whenever I remember to. It’s a complete win win win for me. My trunk is now 12 feet closer to my front door whenever i have groceries to unload, and I no longer have to play “Sure hope no one’s coming” when I pull out. I can pull in about five seconds slower backing in, and if you’ve got a problem waiting those five seconds (most times there’s no one waiting) then my ass is available for biting.
Clever. Kind of like an informal SPUI overpass interchange. Can’t say I can recall seeing it nearly ever.
Might be super efficient coming and going … once everyone else is no longer surprised by folks doing that wrong side in / wrong side out maneuver.
The funny thing is that the lot at that store used to be laid out like a “normal” diagonal-parking lot. They repaved it and restriped everything a year or two ago, and made this change.
When they did this, they made the driving lanes wider, too, to accommodate two-way traffic. I’m fairly sure that led to a net decrease in the number of spaces in the lot, but it’s not a terribly busy store anymore (it used to be busier, decades ago, when I first moved to the area), and it doesn’t share its lot with any other stores or businesses. Most times when I shop there, the lot is less than 1/4 full anyway.