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More things I wonder about…

Filed under: Life — Bill Eisenhauer at 10:03 am on Saturday, March 11, 2006

I started noting things I wonder about here.  Here are a couple more:

  • Wondering about the term "meteoric rise."  The term is used to describe a dramatic upswing and yet all meteors do is fall quickly to the ground and flame out.
  • What is the deal with people who need to back into their parking spaces?  I have never understood this phenomenon and I wonder if its just a Texas thing.  And its usually the people with the biggest vehicles, like the big trucks that are found in Texas.  To me, its way too stressful trying to negotiate into a parking space while backing up.  I’d rather have the easier back up scenario where I’m not trying to thread the needle between two other vehicles.  I cannot figure out what kind of advantage this provides someone, so if someone out there does this regularly, please explain why.
  • Another parking lot scenario.  When packing out of a spot, why must you be three-fourths out of your spot before you get the respect of oncoming traffic.  It seems I’m invariably putting the brakes on even when my car is well out of its space.

That’s it for today…

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Comment by Mike

March 13, 2006 @ 9:45 am

Re backing into a spot: If it helps any, my college buddy Henry always said “… back in like a redneck”. (You do say that it’s usually giant pick-ups, right?

I still don’t know the origin of the phrase (asking Henry about a random phrase of his would kill its Zen-like essense), but it has stuck with me for many years.

To this day MB and I say “back in like a redneck” if one of us pulls through a spot into the opposite spot, so that, one is, in essense “backed in”.

And she doesn’t even know Henry.

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Comment by Mike

March 13, 2006 @ 9:49 am

Oh, and I meant to say, that I do it occasionally in my company’s parking garage. However, I only do it when I expect certain constraints to arise as the garage fills up (it’s a very cramped garage with lots of concrete and steel barriers in odd places. Once the lot is full, there’s not a lot of maneuvering room.

So, one could posit that the large truck drivers back in when the lot is relatively empty (thus offering the 40 acres needed) so that they don’t have to pussyfoot around a bunch of other vehicles when leaving.

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