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At least around here we have started ticketing people who pull head first into diagonal parking spaces. It has lead to a number of fights/arguements with the city and some towing issues when people won't pay/lose in court.
?!?!?!?! Do you mean "head first" or "back in"? I can't believe you're forcing people to back into diagonal spaces?
EDIT: There are too many obscene connotations to even START on this post.
But overall, I understand that there are exceptions: In San Francisco there are some alleyways barely wider than a car and if you ever want to get out you have to back in. If you've got your own 2-car-wide driveway and you want to be able to unload directly from your trunk into your garage it makes sense to back in.
But in well-marked, well-lit, crowded parking lots, or in situations where backing in actively makes your life more difficult, or if you're just horrifically incompetent at it, it really annoys me.
At least around here we have started ticketing people who pull head first into diagonal parking spaces. It has lead to a number of fights/arguements with the city and some towing issues when people won't pay/lose in court.?!?!?!?! Do you mean "head first" or "back in"? I can't believe you're forcing people to back into diagonal spaces?
EDIT: There are too many obscene connotations to even START on this post.
Head first. You are supposed to back in. These are usually in the housing projects that have diagonal parking. It gets ugly sometimes, especially when someone didn't know you were supposed to back in.
It's gotta be cultural. Japan apparently widely favors backing in, from what I've seen. And so do I.
Head first. You are supposed to back in. These are usually in the housing projects that have diagonal parking. It gets ugly sometimes, especially when someone didn't know you were supposed to back in.
I have no idea why anyone would think you're supposed to back in , or what problems it would cause. Wouldn't someone parking the other way be LESS likely to bang their door into yours if you're both getting out at the same time?
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If the opening of the spot is angled towards the head of my car, I'm going to pull in. That just makes it easier to back out since I'm angled towards the oncoming driving lane. If it's perpendicular, then I prefer to back in, as I can just drive out without backing out into traffic. If the opening were angled towards the direction of travel, backing in would have to be the option, but I don't typically see that setup anywhere.
So my short take on it is that I wouldn't care if it didn't so negatively affect all the drivers around them:
(1) Backing in is slower*. In densely-populated areas you're pretty much guaranteed making people wait for your convenience. This is Not OK.
(2) Backing in is less accurate. Once again, backers around here are constantly blocking up two spaces because they couldn't get their car straight. I could drive over to Target right now and find a backed-in parker blocking two spaces. It's that endemic.
(3) In diagonal spaces, backing in is significantly more dangerous. You're pulling out going the wrong way into traffic. We started ticketing people who back in because we had a number of head-on collisions caused by it.
EDIT: In my evaluation, moving forwards is fast, whether you're initially pulling forward into a space or driving forward to pull out of a space, so those are a wash. The time difference comes into play when you're backing up: If you're backing out of a space you have tons of wiggle room. If you're backing into a space you have only a few inches. So backing into a space is slower. No, I have not done field tests of this hypothesis.
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Eh, I've seen too many people take up two slots parking headfirst to count that against people backing in. I know not everyone learned to back 5-ton trucks like I do, but you'd think they could park like normal people!
Backing into traffic happens whether you are in diagonal or perpendicular spaces. Pulling out allows you to drive right into the flow rather than against it. But whether you pull or back in, on one end of the parking situation you have to go against traffic.
I much prefer pull through spaces where you don't have to exit the same side you came in!
Edit: Also, I LOVE my rear camera, it takes a lot of work off me backing in and out.
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Going forward is easier than going backwards.
When pulling into a parking spot, I have a small area and need to have the exact position. You can't just be in the lines you have to be dead center on them or you'll block someone from opening their door. Also if i mess up people will be seeing that for hours.
When pulling out, I have MUCH larger area (the road) and positioning doesn't matter at all as long as I don't hit anything. And no witnesses!
I much prefer pull through spaces where you don't have to exit the same side you came in!
That is indeed one of my favorite things. I hate it when stores put up little concrete stops just to prevent it.
And before you posted I was about to comment that where I live probably has a lot to do with it: Parking is so hard to come by in lots that if you shift into reverse cars part like the Red Sea to let you out; they'll even back up for you to get out of the way. So backing out of a space is pretty easy. I've been surprised in other areas when I've started backing and and someone has sped up, honked, and swerved around me. So location matters.
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Yeah, not everyone learns to drive by having to dress right dress an entire line of military vehicles in precise order.
And before you posted I was about to comment that where I live probably has a lot to do with it: Parking is so hard to come by in lots that if you shift into reverse cars part like the Red Sea to let you out;
CONVERSELY, the people who DON'T need a parking spot will speed up to get past you because heaven forbid they pause their day to let you get out when they could be home fractions of seconds sooner.
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Had to remove the "add a spouse" step from one of my practices. Added the comment, "Doing away with spouses is a time-honored English tradition."
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Had to remove the "add a spouse" step from one of my practices. Added the comment, "Doing away with spouses is a time-honored English tradition."
When king does that, it's a law!
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It's fine so long as you remember to set up your own church immediately afterwards.
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Guide your kids, give them good advice, and they'll be fine.
After 5 years of agony at DVC where I had to work with Impus Major 1-2 hours a day, 7 days a week, just to get him to barely scrape by with a C average, he realized he wanted to be a forensic pathologist.
This semester assuming he can get at least 50% on his U.S. Government presentation (which pretty much boils down to, "Turn something in and don't insult the teacher"), he'll get straight As, including not scoring below a 93% on any of his four Chemistry exams.
And I haven't helped him one whit, though after work today I'll be going over his final presentation with him because I might know a thing or two about PowerPoint presentations.
(And I know exactly how professors are -- let a professional do a job for you and the professor will tear it apart and call it incompetent. So I plan to barely touch it.)
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<zooms through the thread>
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Lead Landscape designer (after showing up at my job site at 4 pm): I don't actually have anything to do here, it's just nice!
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Oh, this should be interesting...
Impus Major's presentation was terrible. It was in an incomprehensible order, with introduction, then sources, then conclusion, then arguments. As I started trying to get him to rearrange it, he brought up the pagelong instructions from the teacher.
And he had followed them to the letter.
He calls it "malicious compliance".
I call it a risky, cheeky maneuver.
But as he puts it, if his instructor is too lazy to actually provide the format he wants, but instead just jumbles a bunch of ideas together in random order, then how can he mark Impus Major off for turning in a paper that has exactly those things in exactly that order?
It's an ugly, ugly piece of work. But it is exactly what the instructor asked for, according to his final project instructions.
Why did this occur?
I have literally no idea. Up until this week, the guy had a reputation for quality work, and when he was asked why he didn't say anything about this particular job, he just got angry and made a bunch of lame excuses.
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then how can he mark Impus Major off for turning in a paper that has exactly those things in exactly that order?
Tenure
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It's fine so long as you remember to set up your own church immediately afterwards.
I am sure there are options...
Why did this occur?I have literally no idea. Up until this week, the guy had a reputation for quality work, and when he was asked why he didn't say anything about this particular job, he just got angry and made a bunch of lame excuses.
I have a few ideas on how it happened.
He probably has more commercial experience and less high end experience, and he probably has little or no experience with concrete or mortar, and was probably overconfident or oversold what he could do without researching it, or just assumed it would be easier then it actually was.
That's pretty bad though! Feel free to send pictures or ask questions or if you need me to come out on a weekend to help fix it or something.
I have a few ideas on how it happened.
He probably has more commercial experience and less high end experience, and he probably has little or no experience with concrete or mortar, and was probably overconfident or oversold what he could do without researching it, or just assumed it would be easier then it actually was.
That's pretty bad though! Feel free to send pictures or ask questions or if you need me to come out on a weekend to help fix it or something.
Yes on the first point, no on the second point, yes on the third point. Before he started doing landscaping, he was a commercial concrete installer. The overconfidence angle seems plausible. He was one of the youngest guys in the company, and making foreman when you're only 23 is bound to give you a swelled head. Speaking from experience, admitting you screwed up when you're young and hot-headed is also really difficult.
Honestly, having looked at it, it doesn't seem too terribly difficult of a job, just irritating that we're having to do it twice. Next time I'm on site, I'll send you some pictures, though.
Are you supposed to drive alongside with the angle instead of against it then? Do they have arrows for the direction of travel?
there are signs up indicating the angle ans direction.
So my short take on it is that I wouldn't care if it didn't so negatively affect all the drivers around them:
(1) Backing in is slower*. In densely-populated areas you're pretty much guaranteed making people wait for your convenience. This is Not OK.
(2) Backing in is less accurate. Once again, backers around here are constantly blocking up two spaces because they couldn't get their car straight. I could drive over to Target right now and find a backed-in parker blocking two spaces. It's that endemic.
(3) In diagonal spaces, backing in is significantly more dangerous. You're pulling out going the wrong way into traffic. We started ticketing people who back in because we had a number of head-on collisions caused by it.
EDIT: In my evaluation, moving forwards is fast, whether you're initially pulling forward into a space or driving forward to pull out of a space, so those are a wash. The time difference comes into play when you're backing up: If you're backing out of a space you have tons of wiggle room. If you're backing into a space you have only a few inches. So backing into a space is slower. No, I have not done field tests of this hypothesis.
iirc, we had issues with people getting rear ended.
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Am I a bad person for essentially framing mine as "Here are all the things teenagers don't do and why they keep venting to me about why they hate their friends"?
IK TAK NAKKAAAA??
I find it really depressing that the only time you get "honest" news these days is when news organizations don't have enough information to present you with anything other than the bare-bones facts:
Fact #1: There was a fatal pedestrian accident near a golf tournament and police had implemented traffic control.
Fact #2: The golfer is charged with:
(1) Failure to obey traffic control devices.
(2) Failure to obey an officer.
(3) Felony assault on an officer.
And that's all I need to know. I don't need to know what he said. I don't need to know what they said. Everyone's going to make up some B.S. story about what happened.
I'm just going to wait for the actual facts to start trickling out.
Quotes have become the bane of modern reporting.
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Quotes have become the bane of modern reporting.
only to those who are willing to ask questions beyond the first layer of analysis.
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Impus Major is basking in the glory that is actually trying hard for the entire semester.
As I think I mentioned, with midterm scores of 100, 100, and 93 in his Chemistry class, he didn't need to show up to his final to pass the course, and only needed a 50% to get a solid 'A'. With no pressure on him at all he did some modest studying, showed up for the final, and nailed it. He'll be over 95% overall for the semester.
As for his U.S. Government class, he just crunched the numbers and he needs a 22/100 overall on his final project to pass. He did an honest job on the first half so he's fairly sure he got at least 40/50.
So, he turns in his malicious compliance smartassery and gets a 0.
Doesn't matter. He still passes.
Am I a bad person for essentially framing mine as "Here are all the things teenagers don't do and why they keep venting to me about why they hate their friends"?
Nope
It's fine so long as you remember to set up your own church immediately afterwards.I am sure there are options...
Uhmmmm.... its for hewing?
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I'd never personally known anyone with a maxed-out Strength stat until our crew got our new trainee. I caught something moving out of the corner of my eye, and turned around to see this dude pick up a 20" plate compactor (roughly 200 lbs.) out of a trench, carry it about ten feet, then set it down like it was nothing.
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I'd never personally known anyone with a maxed-out Strength stat until our crew got our new trainee. I caught something moving out of the corner of my eye, and turned around to see this dude pick up a 20" plate compactor (roughly 200 lbs.) out of a trench, carry it about ten feet, then set it down like it was nothing.
I worked with a professional body builder for a summer and he would literally build boulder walls with his bare hands.
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I'd never personally known anyone with a maxed-out Strength stat until our crew got our new trainee. I caught something moving out of the corner of my eye, and turned around to see this dude pick up a 20" plate compactor (roughly 200 lbs.) out of a trench, carry it about ten feet, then set it down like it was nothing.
I can do it but it won't look like it was nothing.
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I'll be starting an outdoor kitchen soon, which will be the first one I've done. And it will be filmed on time lapse.
No pressure or anything.
I know I've tiraded about this before, but one of the great joys in life as you get older is to repeat yourself ad nauseum and chalk it up to aging.
I 100% understand a cash-based lifestyle. As people have said, it makes it easier to stick to a budget, there are a lot of interactions that are cash-only, etc.
I 100% fail to understand people younger than me who still write checks.
They are a bane to the writer and the recipient. I'm down to 2-3 checks a year, almost exclusively to medical places that say, "Well, if you want to do online payments you have to sign up for an account, and if you sign up for an account we'll sell your data to every advertiser who asks," (a depressingly-accurate summary of GothBard's physical therapist's agreement).
Impus Major has a "real" job taking care of a non-functional adult so his parents can have a break every Saturday, and every Saturday they write him a check as payment.
Learn to Venmo! Learn to Zelle! Heck, just pay cash! Or write a check once a month!
I do not want my house filling with pointless slips of paper because we have to track Impus Major's income for tax purposes (my guess is that they're reporting it so he'll have to as well).
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But wait, aren't people making checks all the time? Strength checks, Dexterity checks, Constitution checks, Intelligence checks...
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It’s super cool to get stuck behind someone writing a check at the grocery store. Luckily, that’s pretty rare these days.
All I know is I take cash when I go out because credit card receipts are super hard to read or sign after a couple of drinks.
Our supervisor slipped off the road while trying to prune something when the rock under his foot gave way. Without thinking I snapped my arm out and darth vadered them back to solid ground.
He wouldn't yell at me for a week after that....
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I have discovered the awesomeness that is Resident Alien.
I basically have paper checks solely for paying for things that I don't want to hand out my bank details to. When the option is limited to "check or direct account withdrawal", I pick the former. Which is a surprising number of my bills, because apparently a lot of businesses around here don't just have a place I can pay with a credit/debit card online.
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Scint and I have decided we are going to dedicate one day a week to working on our various projects together. So you might actually start seeing progress on the adventures and stories we want to write!
I basically have paper checks solely for paying for things that I don't want to hand out my bank details to. When the option is limited to "check or direct account withdrawal", I pick the former. Which is a surprising number of my bills, because apparently a lot of businesses around here don't just have a place I can pay with a credit/debit card online.
Yeah, businesses don't like credit cards because they lose 2.5% (or whatever) on every sale. But my credit union has a "pay this company" set up so my credit union sends the check for, for examples, utilities, phone bills, and garbage. And keep in mind that your address, account number, and routing number is on every check you write. It's the least-secure way to pay, at least if the company then enters it into their online accounting system, which many do.