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I prefer to reverse in largely because I have a reversing camera in my car.
The car is also easier to manoeuvre at slow speeds when reversing due to the turning being at the rear off the car when reversing.
It also means hat when I exit my parking spot, I can look in different directions to look for other traffic.
The only place I don't reverse park is in supermarkets which pretty much force you to forward park so that you can get to your boot with a trolley.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Hey, just be happy you have a parking lot... Here, we have to parallel park...
But that doesn't bother me... My car would just flatten those cars into pancakes... If it could leave its underground track, that is 
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At work, I pull through. Of course when I get here there are only about five cars in the lot.
I hate backing. Had a chance to earn good money driving a truck (many years ago) but since I cannot back one, I had to decline.
I own a trailer that I will not use if I know I will need to back with it.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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With front wheel steering, if you get the back end in the right place, you can straighten up by moving the front. Conversely, if you get the front in the right place, the rear wheels would have to move sideways to straighten up - and they aren't keen on that.
I find it easier to get the rear wheels in place by pushing them rather than pulling them & hoping they will lazily follow to the right place. Therefore I tend to reverse into a space. BUT - in supermarket car parks, this means you can't get at your boot to put the shopping in!
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I always park in a specific direction: forward or reverse, but never both at the same time.
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Please provide a reference.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Please provide a reference.
int & willThisDo;
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If you can drive at 200mph, you should bloody well be able to park either way.
Personally I like to reverse into a parking space whenever possible. It is much easier to see pedestrians while you are on the road than when in the parking space, looking over your shoulder.
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But parking head-in allows you to turn off the engine and coast in.
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One of my pet peeves is the low grade morons who, always being in a hurry, will drive quickly behind me whilst I pull out of a space - even though I'm already moving and often halfway out.
Don't they ever think of how much time they'll save when I or someone else back into them? They should, however, take into account, that I'd consider manslaughter to thank them for ruining my day.
Pedestrians, too. My son, once having learned to drive, remarked that he didn't realize how dangerous it was to do some of the things he did in the street (even where one stands) until he had to be on the drivers side of things. Walking behind a moving car doesn't actually cause it to stop.
Who on CP is currently in charge of renewing my 007 license-to-kill?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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My chauffeur usually just stops where I want to get out then drives round and picks me up.
I don't know if he parks or keeps driving around.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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... at least 13 minutes old, anyway! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Actually when you posted it was 14 minutes old.
Why can't people be accurate?
veni bibi saltavi
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I tried to muster up the energy to write a biting answer to that one, but I discovered much to my surprise that I don't really care enough... 
So cheers instead! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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and tiresome. It is the next Leslie.
 
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What was wrong with the first Leslie??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Well, if you count being dead...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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WHAT? He's dead? When did that happen? Why didn't anybody post something about that?
Anyway, he may be dead. but I'm sure he's loving it[^]...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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That's not the only thing. Lounge is so rigid nowadays with all the WSO* and OTD theres just no spontaneity anymore.
(I know that I invented WSO CCC so I have a lot to answer for)
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aardvark
How's that for spontaneous?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Not very good - You took the first word in the dictionary, wasn't very random.
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Actually I use that word a lot as my FORTRAN professor used it because it had eight letters. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I see, so we've moved on to the next phase. Complaining about W10 complaints. 
Marc
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I'd complain about my MacBook not working but its basically jewellery so I don't imagine I'd get any sympathy.
I'd complain about my Linux VM not working but its my mess and I can't really expect anyone else to fix it.
I'd complain about my UNIX workstation but the last time I did that someone called "Nedry" applied a patch and now my back garden is full of velociraptors.
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