Following rules generally for me. There is a parking lot near me where people insist on parking the wrong way (people park opposite the way if traffic on both side of the lane way think parking the wrong way on a one way street) and it makes me so angry every time I shop in the area. I even tried to mention it in a community Facebook group and was told to shut up and mind my own buisness
I feel this. My job is surrounded by one-way streets, with angled back-in parking everywhere. So you don’t even need to parallel park, you just back into the spots to park, and then pull straight out (matching the direction of traffic on the one-way street) when you leave. It’s literally all the best parts of parallel parking, with none of the downsides.
We regularly have people pull u-turns on the one-way streets to park nose-in. No amount of signs have helped, because you can’t make people read. It’s a ticketable offense, (same as if you had parallel parked facing the wrong direction on a one-way street) and the local PD regularly makes sweeps every few hours to check… And they’ll easily ticket 10-20 people on busy days. There have even been instances where the cop was standing there writing a ticket for it, when someone pulled in right next to them. And then they’d argue with the cop that they should be allowed to park however they want.
At first, seeing people swing super wide to pull into the spots would piss me off. Then for a while it was amusing, because I knew I’d get to see them rage about the ticket on their windshield while I sit in my office. But now it’s just disappointing. Like every time I see it, I lose a little more faith in humanity. The old joke about “make something idiot-proof and they’ll invent a better idiot” always rings true.
My nephew is autistic, and when he was little (and his parents were basically in denial about it) he kept getting kicked out of schools because he’d punch kids that change the rules in the middle of a game. They ended up having to home school him
Following rules generally for me. There is a parking lot near me where people insist on parking the wrong way (people park opposite the way if traffic on both side of the lane way think parking the wrong way on a one way street) and it makes me so angry every time I shop in the area. I even tried to mention it in a community Facebook group and was told to shut up and mind my own buisness
I feel this. My job is surrounded by one-way streets, with angled back-in parking everywhere. So you don’t even need to parallel park, you just back into the spots to park, and then pull straight out (matching the direction of traffic on the one-way street) when you leave. It’s literally all the best parts of parallel parking, with none of the downsides.
We regularly have people pull u-turns on the one-way streets to park nose-in. No amount of signs have helped, because you can’t make people read. It’s a ticketable offense, (same as if you had parallel parked facing the wrong direction on a one-way street) and the local PD regularly makes sweeps every few hours to check… And they’ll easily ticket 10-20 people on busy days. There have even been instances where the cop was standing there writing a ticket for it, when someone pulled in right next to them. And then they’d argue with the cop that they should be allowed to park however they want.
At first, seeing people swing super wide to pull into the spots would piss me off. Then for a while it was amusing, because I knew I’d get to see them rage about the ticket on their windshield while I sit in my office. But now it’s just disappointing. Like every time I see it, I lose a little more faith in humanity. The old joke about “make something idiot-proof and they’ll invent a better idiot” always rings true.
My nephew is autistic, and when he was little (and his parents were basically in denial about it) he kept getting kicked out of schools because he’d punch kids that change the rules in the middle of a game. They ended up having to home school him
I like this kid already