Backing in, there's a small possibility someone might walk behind you. Backing out, there's pedestrians and traffic and possibly a compromised rear view (if you're, say, moving across the country with a van full of all your possessions).

I don't do it as a general rule, but there are times when it's handy.

It makes everyone stuck behind you in the parking lot where you are blocking traffic as you repeatedly correct and overcorrect while trying to park curse your very existance and assume bad things about your ego.

Or maybe I'm the only one that does that.

It makes everyone stuck behind you in the parking lot where you are blocking traffic as you repeatedly correct and overcorrect while trying to park curse your very existance and assume bad things about your ego.

Thank you!

Maybe I'm just grumpy in the mornings (I'm totally grumpy in the mornings), but it throws my rhythm off when I'm driving and the moron in front of me, instead of pulling into a perfectly accessible parking space, has to drive past it, and then suddenly stop to back into it.

It's easier to back in to a tight space than pull into it, and safer getting out because you can see the cars coming down the aisle.

Yeah, that's just bad manners. But I will say that if the person has a compromised rear view it may be necessary.

The other day I was passed by someone doing, I swear, 90 in medium-heavy traffic doing 70. I soothed myself by thinking, maybe they're trying to get to the hospital. Odds are, they're just fast jerks. But it could be...

My husband always back in. I always think of it as a military thing - it's easier to get everyone out smoothly if you can just pull right out of your spot.

If you can do it quickly and without scraping my parked car, I really don't care how you park. But it has been my experience that very few people are good at backing into a spot.

There's at least one krav instructor who gets pissy if he's riding with you and you don't back in. Whole military thing.

I prefer to back in, but can't always be bothered. I back into my parking space at home, and did at my last place too because I hate backing out into traffic with a passion. I like to think it makes my general backing in (when I have the energy) not so slow.

I despise those people who speed through parking lots honking as they go so you don't "accidentally" back into them as you come out. I wonder if they remember they can see you but you can't necessarily see them. I hope it's a reproach-free honk.

I always end up in the parking lot behind the person who needs multiple attempts to back into a parking spot.

I like driving through the spot in my aisle into the one in the next aisle that lets me face forward.

(assuming that makes sense in english)