Do you really,really look before backing out of a parking spot?

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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I've had a few near miss in those parking lots
Why is it hardly nobody looks before backing out,why is it so hard to LOOK where you're going while backing up?
You have 3 mirrors and 2 eyeballs to use,I've seen drivers just look into their rear view mirrors then back out while telling their friends on the cell phone "I just brought this ash tray and I'm coming over right now to show it to you".
CRIPES...I'm even afraid to walk to the store from my parking spot now.
They're crazy I tell ya.
 

I really, really look...I have no desire to back into another vehicle or person. Someone at work one time started to back out of his spot quickly, it took me by surprise, as I was behind him leaving the parking lot. I had to sound my horn. He waved to me in a friendly way, and the next day he thanked me for honking...he said he had some health issues on his mind, and was preoccupied.
 
Had a best friend who would lean out the window and yell, "Look Out!" when he was backing. Worked every time...
 

Well this is timely! I went to the grocery store this morning, walked to my car, got in, did the usual checks, put in reverse and BAM! Scared me half to death as the first thought was that I hit someone. Turns out, that another driver was backing out too and we dinged each other. No damage to either car but just goes to show you how quickly things change.

This is the first time I've ever hit something and thank the gods it didn't amount to anything. We actually hit each other and no one was hurt so that's a relief.
 
A popular trick among us smartasses (best done to a friend who enjoys a good joke) is to slap the side of a car as it backs out. Scares the hell outta 'em...
 
TICA said:
Well this is timely! I went to the grocery store this morning, walked to my car, got in, did the usual checks, put in reverse and BAM! Scared me half to death as the first thought was that I hit someone. Turns out, that another driver was backing out too and we dinged each other. No damage to either car but just goes to show you how quickly things change.

This is the first time I've ever hit something and thank the gods it didn't amount to anything. We actually hit each other and no one was hurt so that's a relief.
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That happened to me at work in the parking lot last year I was backing out and another gal was backing out and didn't see me and ran into my rear bumper.
Only minor damage to my bumper and we couldn't tell if anything happened to her car because she already had so many dings in the rear..Hmmmmm
 
It's not parking lots that take guts and nerve, it's reversing out into traffic when there's a 4wd the size of a #%$@! school bus parked on the oncoming traffic side of you!
We have nose to kerb parking in the local town and once you're in there the only way out is backing into the traffic, blind!
No matter how hard you study what's behind you, you can't see what's coming down the street.

All you can do is check reflections for movement in the shop window if there is one, or creep out slowly and wait for oncoming vehicles to blast a horn at you to let you know they're comin' through regardless. Get's exciting! I hate big 4wds when I ain't in 'em.
 
OMGReversing cars are a nightmare where i live, especially the Toorak Tractors {4WD} that all husbands expect their tiny wives to drive, it seems they just get in and think well i am in a huge vehicle everyone will make way for me, i have had so many near misses it isn't funny, then there is the reversing out like Di mentioned with the darn Toorak Tractors on either side of you, they may as well be Tanks as they block your view completely and you have to crawl out enough to be able to see if there are any cars.:danger::magnify:
Years ago all farmers owned the 4WD vehicles and everyone else either drove a Ute or a sedan but now it seems to be a fad here with people buying the 4WD vehicles and they don't need them most never see rough terrain, it's like a status symbol, i don't know how they can afford the upkeep for them as they would be heavy on fuel.
 
K-Mart is running a TV commercial lately for Christmas - a lady is backing up her SUV (minivan?) and she's doing it by turning and looking over her shoulder.

Nothing there, then she hits something and immediately looks into the rear-view mirror to see what it is! (It's a snowman).

The thing that bugs me is that this is the exact opposite of how most people back up - they use the mirror, and if they hit something then and only then would they whip their heads around to see what it is.
 
WHAT PI**ES ME OFF WHEN TRYING TO REVERSE OUT OF A PARKING SPOT IS THE TWO IDIOTS WAITING TO GET INTO THE SPOT WHERE YOU WERE.
THEY NEVER LEAVE YOU ENOUGH ROOM TO REVERSE, WHEN YOU REVERSE ONE WAY THE CAR AT THE FRONT OF YOU STARTS TO EDGE FORWARD & THEN
YOU CAN'T GO FORWARD & THEY REFUSE TO MOVE, THEN THE ONE AT THE REAR OF YOU EDGES FORWARD YELLING AT YOU FOR REVERSING HIS WAY
& TELLS YOU HE WAS THERE FIRST. i DON'T REALLY GIVE A SH*T JUST AS LONG AS ICAN GET OUT OF THERE!!!!!!!:what::danger::bump::eek1:
 
Another thing that annoys the hell out of me is when you are reversing your car is almost out of the parking spot and the dill people walk behind your reversing car, Grrr they can't wait a second for you to finish backing out, and also at pedestrian crossings people just walk straight out onto it without looking at all, and you are at fault if you hit them, no-one uses the old thing of looking to the left and then the right before crossing.
 
They stroll into traffic because they're raised with a nanny standing with a lollipop pole in front of their school, holding up the traffic for the little dears so they don't have to get any experience in dodging traffic. By the time they grow up they're clueless about self preservation and have 'apps' stuck in their earholes so that any last dregs of awareness are swamped by 'input'. It's a miracle the carnage isn't worse really.
 
In my retirement community, down here in Florida, you had better be damn sure to look as people on scooters, golf carts, walkers, you name it, are always out taking their little walk each day and they are too slow to get out of the way. I do have the beepers on the car that lets me know if I'm getting to close to something, but I still do not want some old fart beating up my car with his cane.
 
Our Australian road rules are killing pedestrians. No pedestrian should have right of way over any motor vehicle except at marked crossings/intersections. We are encouraging people to disrespect motor vehicles by giving pedestrians right of way. Motor vehicle drivers have a far smaller field of view than pedestrians.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-02/pedestrian-death-toll-prompts-who-safety-plea/4666652
More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world's roads each year the World Health Organisation (WHO) says, slamming decades of neglect in favour of vehicle transportation.
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Backing Out: I always turn on my hazard lights when backing but stupid/impatient people still try to get run over.
 
Do what I do,drive back into your parking spot and just sit there and laugh.


GDAD said:
WHAT PI**ES ME OFF WHEN TRYING TO REVERSE OUT OF A PARKING SPOT IS THE TWO IDIOTS WAITING TO GET INTO THE SPOT WHERE YOU WERE.
THEY NEVER LEAVE YOU ENOUGH ROOM TO REVERSE, WHEN YOU REVERSE ONE WAY THE CAR AT THE FRONT OF YOU STARTS TO EDGE FORWARD & THEN
YOU CAN'T GO FORWARD & THEY REFUSE TO MOVE, THEN THE ONE AT THE REAR OF YOU EDGES FORWARD YELLING AT YOU FOR REVERSING HIS WAY
& TELLS YOU HE WAS THERE FIRST. i DON'T REALLY GIVE A SH*T JUST AS LONG AS ICAN GET OUT OF THERE!!!!!!!:what::danger::bump::eek1:
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Beeping does no good since most seriors have hearing problems and dont want to admit it.

Pappy said:
In my retirement community, down here in Florida, you had better be damn sure to look as people on scooters, golf carts, walkers, you name it, are always out taking their little walk each day and they are too slow to get out of the way. I do have the beepers on the car that lets me know if I'm getting to close to something, but I still do not want some old fart beating up my car with his cane.
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I believe some people are in to much of a hurry. I always look, and look some more and back out slowly.
 

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