Question about peoples odd behavior.

[Felch]

How are you supposed to be able to smoke weed while driving a manual?

[Wezil]

When you're traveling cross-country through the bush to get to your grow-op you'll wish you had one.

[The Mad Monk]

Round here it's mostly pickups that park backwards.

[snoopy369]

I have to say I am confused by the signs prohibiting it as well. I normally park frontways, because at the grocery store I'd rather have the trunk accessible, thank you very much, and I have a one year old, so even at non-store places odds are I need access to the stroller/etc. But still, it's sometimes easier to go in the other way - depending on the location of other parked cars, and occasionally the narrow lane (the condo I lived at the last two years had a lot that required backing in - if you didn't, it would take you a half hour to get out of the spot).

[kentonio]

I always park backing in. It is simly a superior form of parking.

This. Needing to reverse out of a parking space means you have less field of vision, and are more likely to hit any kids/elderly folk who just wander out in front of you.

Not to mention that driving automatics isn't even proper driving in my book!

This is also true.

[The Mad Monk]

Brits have inferior automatics.

[Tuberski]

Hassle is that stupid little jump automatics do when they change gear.

Hassle is ****ty fuel economy.

Hassle is having to slam your feet on the brakes going downhill or coasting to a stop.

Hassle is having the joy of actually driving literally being torn from your grasp...

I reckon you're one of those people who actually likes those stupid alarms to remind you to shut your ****ing car door when it's open...

Shifting is what you consider actual driving? Manual transmissions don't steer a car.

Besides, driving a stick makes it harder to smoke drink and talk on the phone while driving.

I reckon you're one of those people who (place whatever is most insulting to you here)

ACK!

[Lorizael]

Hassle is that stupid little jump automatics do when they change gear.

Hassle is ****ty fuel economy.

Hassle is having to slam your feet on the brakes going downhill or coasting to a stop.

Hassle is having the joy of actually driving literally being torn from your grasp...

I reckon you're one of those people who actually likes those stupid alarms to remind you to shut your ****ing car door when it's open...

*figuratively

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

What kind of fascist police state makes it illegal to reverse into a parking space?

It's forward planning. Buy heavy shopping, and your tailgate is right next to the pavement for convenient loading.

[Wezil]

Few spaces are at the curb. Most have another parking space behind them. Front in keeps the trunk accessable...

[snoopy369]

Clearly your first comment shows you're entirely ignorant to what it means to drive properly because you've never experienced it - clearly you don't know what you're missing...

My steering of the car and getting it to do exactly what I want it to do is actually improved by the fact that I can manual set the gear I want, when I want it!

Which reminds me:

Hassle is not being able to 'handle' the car the way you want it.

Hassle is not being able to overtake faster than you would otherwise with the higher torque of a lower gear because you can.

Hassle is not having to kill your momentum with your brakes all the time because you can't change down gears. Get stuck at junctions and roundabouts much, Tubes...?

'Driving' a car means actually getting an efficient performance out of it. Be that handling, speed, overtaking, economy etc, etc, etc...

How about a car like mine (and most recent automatics) that has both options available? Automatic normally, but 'sport' option which allows shifting up/down through all gears. Only disadvantage relative to manual is lack of clutch, so can't do a few clutch tricks, but otherwise effectively identical.

[Dauphin]

My steering of the car and getting it to do exactly what I want it to do is actually improved by the fact that I can manual set the gear I want, when I want it!

Well, you can with automatics too, but generally people just don't.

[Guynemer]

Another five-star entry into the DFG pantheon. Kudos.

[Docfeelgood]

I just want to ask if you are just a full blown Nazi now?

No, why your group got low memnbership?

[SlowwHand]

It's illegal to back a vehicle into a parking space that abuts a motel, hotel, apartment or condo dwelling. The reason, people seem to resent exhaust fumes.