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Originally Posted by AznBRZer
Hmmm...I already do all of the above. I guess I'm just an unlucky person.  |
There's nothing you can do to flat out avoid getting hit in a parking lot: I was once hit in a lot after I sat in my space, waited for a car in my row to pass behind me, then began inching out looking over my shoulder watching for cars either behind me (other side of the row and also backing up) or for another car that might come barreling down that row (happened a lot at the city college lot I was in at the time). Anyway, I get about halfway out of the spot (enough that people coming down the row can definitely see me since I'm taking up half the lane), I look to my right again and find the car that I'd allowed to pass by me is now backing up into me for absolutely no reason. I tapped the horn but he didn't stop reversing and I didn't want to throw it in first and try and pull back in because it was a compact parking spot with a big concrete light pole foundation at the front of it-- if something was gonna get crunched I figured it was better for it to be the other driver's fault than my own...
Anyway it all turned out OK-- the guy was an elderly dude driving a Camry rather than some nineteen year-old dude who might have just taken off. But it just goes to show that you can only look one or two ways at a time and there's no way to positively avoid being hit in parking lots, no matter how slowly / carefully you do things. There will always be a better idiot.