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Originally Posted by roderickpsu
I love watching someone back in and out of a space trying to get an equal spacing between them and the two vehicles beside them, but they don't do anything correctly in terms of making this happen...they will back in and out ten times before they give up and have to squeeze out their door because they are so close to one of the vehicles..it's hilarious!
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I put that in the same drawer with the force that pulls your bicycle off the edge of a sidewalk curb no matter how much weight you try to move "uphill". It's like a gravity well caused by distant black holes. I can't point to the source but I can see the effect in any parking lot.
Just a few weeks ago my brother and I watched a couple do the parking hokey pokey in a Staples lot. Full daylight, no kids, the woman wasn't screaming, they were just impaired. The guy must have become frustrated, or they just decided the store wasn't important so he tried to leave. I say tried, because even that didn't work too well. He slowly pulled forward in a wide arc (not nearly at the steering limit) and bonked into a pickup that was parked at the edge of the lot. We blinked at each other and got his plates as he backed away and drove off. Had he turned just slightly tighter he'd have cleared the pickup easily.
"Fascinating"