Monday pick: Backing Into Parking Spaces

If you are like most people, when enter a parking lot you look for the a space that is in that ideal category of being closest to the door as well as the easiest to pull into. Some people just take the first open one they see while the daring few amongst us try their luck with the handicap spaces. No matter your preference of location, everyone agrees that it’s more preferable to pull into a space. I am here today to tell all those constituents why they are factually wrong and must evidently lack basic pride and dignity for oneself. So, without further adieu, let’s dive into this mondays pick: Backing into parking spaces.
When I was first learning how to drive, my father told me that there were two types of drivers on the road, those that know how to drive, and those that pull forward into spaces. The car as he says, is a materialistic extension of one’s dignity, and transitively, their self respect. In order to drive on the road one must have confidence in their own abilities, they must have pride in the work that they do, and by taking the easy way out you accomplice nothing but proclaiming yourself a failure. Personally, i’ve never understood the reluctance to putting the car into reverse, the car has that gear for a reason. Additionally, a quick glance around will inform you that special built in reflecting devices called mirrors are there to assist the user in reversing the vehicle the way it was intended. While the average driver shows off their inability to operate the automobile in which they drive, their ignorance reveals them as nothing short of a cur.
For those in the audience that see driving merely as a method of displacing one’s self from one area to the next, perhaps the sanctity of honor was lost on you. That in of itself tells all of us how you park at Target. Nevertheless, further benefits are needed to convert anyone from there heretic ways.
Let’s first examine this from a time management perspective. One of the most popular arguments is that backing up takes more time than pulling in, I’m here to tell you that such a claim is false. I tested this in fact just last weekend, timing myself over the course of several attempts to enter a parking space. After completing several parks using both methods, I found that backing up was on average 3-4 seconds faster. This is given my definition of being parked necessitates the car being reasonably equidistant from both lines. Pulling forward as I discovered, makes it more difficult to judge the distance between the boundaries, while backing up gives one the advantage of seeing both lines in the side mirrors and parking accordingly. As to weather I fudged this data to give me the answer I wanted, the world will never know, but for now i’m going to pass it off as fact.
Anyone that has been in the OA parking lot has seen the chaos that can ensue. The last thing anyone wants is to be hit by some stupid sophomore whose had their license a whole week and a half and then sit through the excuse barrage of “ I didn’t see them when I was backing out”. We can all agree that packing out of a space creates greater opportunity for us to miss things in the cars blind spots. This thus creates an unsafe environment that will inevitably lead to more accidents. By initially backing into the space, one can avoid such a mishap by being able to clearly see their surroundings as they look out and pull forward.
Lastly, backing into spaces enhances your skills as driver. The situation might arise when one finds that the only space at the farmers daughter in between two cars, thus requiring the ever dreamed parallel park. Situations like these are the bane of most drivers existences, but if one practices backing up on a daily basis, even having to street park between two McClairen’s will seem like a walk in the park.
To summarize what we’ve learned today, anyone that doesn’t reverse is not only a yellow bellied coward but also am incompetent fool. Backing up is always the better option, (unless you need a back up camera in which the only thing you should be driving is a tricycle) and safer for both you and others around.