Poll: Parking: Closest spot or First you see?

[NoX 9]

I park where there is a good space. If the parking lot is relatively empty I'll part close to the entrance, but if not I don't mind parking away from it. I hate having to stuff my car into a tiny gap while other angrier drivers are waiting for me to finish.

Whats up with that anyway? Only using the internet seem to turn people in to bigger assholes than when they drive, which is terrifying! Angry and irational people should not be piloting several tons of metal trough densely populated areas. I get that you are furious I'm only going 5km/h above the speed limit, just PLEASE keep some distance between my rear bumper and your knees...

I'm not a bad driver, not great, but I manage just fine. However, the whole exercise is made terrifying by some of the other people on the road.

 

[Deimir]

My work van is huge and difficult to back out of a parking space, so I always park wherever I can pull forward to the opposite space. That way when I leave, I can just drive forward out of the space.

When I'm not driving my work van, I just park wherever. 15 seconds of walking is not that big of a deal.

 

[Ieyke]

I drive near the door and then park in the first spot I see, inherently meaning the sooner I find something the closer I'll be, but I WILL NOT be one of those lazy idiots driving around looking for a spot near the door.

If I KNOW the parking lot is jammed I'll drive straight to the remotest place and park where I know is peoples' last choice, because while the rest of the idiots are driving around looking for somewhere to park I will've been able to save the time needed to walk to and from my car numerous times.

 

[Arenari]

Honda Civics aren't good for that sort of thing

They should be ok. They are front wheel drive and relatively low power/torque. I know you americans love big powerful rear wheel drive cars (which really wont to well in the snow) so the civic shouldnt be too bad compared to most american cars

P.s is it a civic type R?

I used to have a Saturn and living in the northern plains of the U.S. The biggest issue with cars like that is the fact that they don't have the weight needed to take advantage of the front wheel drive and low torque in the snow. They still will slide around a lot if you aren't careful.

 

[Eeeee0000]

After working for a grocery store and doing carts for several months, I can't park in the back because I know it absolutely pissed me off whenever someone would park in the back, because that meant I had to go all the way to the back to grab the cart. I have to park as close as I can.

I've seen this before, and is it really that common in the US (or other places) to have people employed to push the carts back? I know in the Netherlands it isn't. Sometimes some asshole would leave their cart in the parking lot and I would have to bring it back, but that rarely happened - people are expected to put their cart back from where they took it, and they do.
It probably helps that a lot of supermarkets have this system where you push a coin into the cart to get it out, and you have to bring it back to get your money back (to prevent theft, I suppose). The supermarket where I worked didn't have this though,and people still brought their carts back.

OT; I don't drive often but I will go for the first spot I see that I notice soon enough to be able to pull into. If it's not as busy I try to find a spot that's easy to pull into or out of.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

After working for a grocery store and doing carts for several months, I can't park in the back because I know it absolutely pissed me off whenever someone would park in the back, because that meant I had to go all the way to the back to grab the cart. I have to park as close as I can.

I've seen this before, and is it really that common in the US (or other places) to have people employed to push the carts back? I know in the Netherlands it isn't. Sometimes some asshole would leave their cart in the parking lot and I would have to bring it back, but that rarely happened - people are expected to put their cart back from where they took it, and they do.
It probably helps that a lot of supermarkets have this system where you push a coin into the cart to get it out, and you have to bring it back to get your money back (to prevent theft, I suppose). The supermarket where I worked didn't have this though,and people still brought their carts back.

OT; I don't drive often but I will go for the first spot I see that I notice soon enough to be able to pull into. If it's not as busy I try to find a spot that's easy to pull into or out of.

The American way of life is: I'm important, my time is worth more than pushing a stupid shopping cart for twenty seconds, there's some stupid guy who can do it for me. It's the same mindset as cleaning movie theaters: surely people aren't going to regress so much as to leave their garbage in their seats and throw popcorn on the floor just because they won't get repercussions for it, surely.

Plus, from my visits to Europe, the size of a typical European supermarket is a lot smaller than the store I worked at.

And yes, there are ways of making the cart collecting easier, like putting a coin in the cart to use it, locking the wheels when the cart is taken out of the parking lot, an automatic machine that pushes the carts for you, and actually having carts that fit together. Not my store! They were really, incredibly cheap, more so than Wal-Mart.