re: The Cultural Phenomenon of Backing Into Parking Spaces.

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Especially large trucks that take 5 minutes to park

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I don't mind it until you take about 30 seconds to a minute to park while people behind you are waiting.

in a vacuum, it's fine, but you shouldn't do it if somebody is behind you.

now what will really piss me off is when somebody is driving in front of you for a spot and the swing to the right into an open spot and then hits the breaks and reverses into a spot the left and lays on the horn because they almost hit you... after literally reversing in the lane of traffic.

woodchippers for those people

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The Cultural Phenomenon of Backing Into Parking Spaces.
Judnnc
Versus not. Ever notice and what gives?

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It's become performative, IMO.

It takes way longer for people to back into spaces - causing others to have to wait for the area to clear - than it does for people to back out of spaces. Backing in is much more an act of precision than backing out.

I hear the plant baw practice of being able to pull out quickly if there's an emergency or whatever. That's fine. But the median person in the median parking lot situation has a high-quality backup cam. Backing out into a parking lot is easy and is not fraught at all.

It also seems dumb to put your trunk/boot in a less accessible position if you are at the grocery store or whatever.