Wedgie wrote:Dogwatcher wrote:People who choose not to drive into their car park, but reverse.
This!!!
I love their logic, take 5 mins extra to park a car inconveniencing up to ten others for the 5 minutes each so they'll save 3 seconds when they leave. These wankers should be shot!
Must admit I can't ever remember being this inconvenienced by car park reversers, though my missus gets a bit of a chuckle out of those that seem to want to reverse in at all costs.
I have done it myself in the past (varying reasons) and can do it quite quickly, but NEVER if it would cause a 'net negative' ie, if I can't be 100% satisfied of avoiding causing injury or mis-hap, if it's illegal (which is clearly sign-posted in some places), or if it might hold people up, even if only for a few seconds (hate doing that.) All that said, I can't remember the casual sensitivities of passers by ever being much of a deterrent.
What does irritate me off about reversers are the load mouth telepathics. You know the ones - drive at least two spaces past an empty spot, no indicators or any sign that they want the spot, and abuse others because they've innocently taken up the spot and started unloading in the mean-time. Yes, happened to me recently.
People who ignore allocated walk-ways are another that get under my skin a bit. Sure, everyone has a touch of brain-fade, but these blighters that you know have seen people, particularly families, waiting to cross and drive through anyway (with plenty of opportunity to stop) need to stand back and have a good look at themselves, IMHO.
While it's never been an inconvenience, another car park phenomenon that I have noticed is drivers, streams of them, drive around for a while trying to get a park near the entrance of a building when there are plenty of free ones inside a minute-ish walk away. A net benefit for some depending on the health or age of of the drivers or their passengers, but surely not all of them.