My car got double teamed by a couple of backed-in Buick Enclaves

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
10/25/2019 at 13:45 • Filed to: Interesting cars at work

A couple of my coworkers who both drive Buick Enclaves insist on always backing in their cars when they park. This morning I parked in a spot that had empty spaces on either side, but when I stepped out to grab lunch, I found my car had been surrounded by the ass-first Enclave crew.

DISCUSSION (39)

dogisbadob > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 13:46

those old people and their backup cameras :p

Arrivederci > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 13:50

You might say, your car is in an enclave of Enclaves?

Textured Soy Protein > dogisbadob
10/25/2019 at 13:50

I just used my HR godmode powers to look up how old they are . One is 55 and the other is 40. So...

fintail > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 13:55

Backing in is proper parking, easier exiting . I’d rather exit the spot with a backed-in car beside me like those Buicks than the white Highlander (?) in the shot as well, better visibility.

FSI > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 13:56

I gotta admit; I rather like that generation Enclave the same way American O ppos like Euro market shitboxes :s

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:02

I had to.
#sorrynotsorry

Kinja'd!!!

dogisbadob > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:06

maybe they borrowed their parents’ cars lol :p

shop-teacher > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:07

It’s way easier to back into tight spots, when you have a long wheelbase. You pivot around the fix backed axle, and let the front end swing around in the open. Pulling in headfirst is much slower, and requires much more maneuvering .

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > fintail
10/25/2019 at 14:07

Except it wastes everyone else’s time while you back in, and half the people who back in aren’t in their space, aren’t straight, or reverse until the wheels hit something meaning their rear overhang is blocking a walkway. If everyone backed in it would be chaos

Ash78, voting early and often > dogisbadob
10/25/2019 at 14:08

You’re thinking of the Encore :)

Every Enclave I see is just driven by someone who refuses to buy a minivan. Now that I think about it, it’s anecdotally the youngest demographic of any Buick I’ve seen.

Textured Soy Protein > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 14:09

At least someone picked up on the innuendo.

Ash78, voting early and often > fintail
10/25/2019 at 14:09

Yeah, I’m not sure if Highlander or Mercedes GL -class. Funny what a partial view can do.

Textured Soy Protein > Ash78, voting early and often
10/25/2019 at 14:11

‘twas a Highlander.

Ash78, voting early and often > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:13

Thanks. I had to look up the GLS to be sure I wasn’t crazy:

Kinja'd!!!

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:15

As my wife likes to say “In YOUR Endo ”

fintail > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 14:24

Maybe it should be taught so people do it better. I am not a perfect driver, but I strive to have accurate parking, and especially with modern cameras, I can back in with one fell swoop, and be fairly straight. I will continue to do it, and if the extra 10 seconds it takes me to reverse irks people, they should plan ahead more :)

MrSnrub > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:26

Ugh, a Tahoe parked way too close to my car while I was at lunch, and I accidentally chipped the edge of the door just now trying to squeeze in. Time to break out the touch-up paint (again)

shop-teacher > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 14:28

That’s just because they suck at it. I can back my truck in way faster in a tight spot, than parking head-in (no backup camera either). When you have a long wheelbase, being able to pivot around the back axle and let the fronts swing in an open area, makes things much quicker.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > fintail
10/25/2019 at 14:30

That’s my point though: most people suck at it. Nothing wrong with doing it, just doesn’t work as a universal rule. Good point about trucks though

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Textured Soy Protein
10/25/2019 at 14:35

If your BMW is surrounded by Buicks, does that make it an enclave?

Derpwagon > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 15:17

Hey I say that too. Am I your wife and I didn’t know?

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Derpwagon
10/25/2019 at 15:19

Considering that derp is one of my most often used terms online, yeah we’re probably married.

Derpwagon > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 15:25

HOW MANY LIVES AM I LEADING

I DON’T KNOW MYSELF

What’s for dinner tonight?

CompactLuxuryFan > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 15:34

It is the universal rule most places except the US . Backing out of spots is the biggest pain, especially when everyone is parking their massive SUVs head first an leaving massive walls on either side of every spot. You say it “wastes everyone’s time” while you back in, but p eople who have to crawl out of any spot in reverse while they pray for no cross traffic instead of swiftly backing into a spot that a) has no possible traffic and b) they’ve just surveyed the entirety of while setting up for the back in are the ones truly wasting everyone’s time. Backing in might take a smidge longer going in, but is *way* quicker and safer on the way out.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Derpwagon
10/25/2019 at 15:40

It’s Friday, fuck it. Pizza

Derpwagon > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 15:47

If you really loved me you'd remember that I'm lactose intolerant you MONSTER. I'm gonna go stay with family.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Derpwagon
10/25/2019 at 15:47

Where did you put your Lactaid? I bought you lactaid SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS

Derpwagon > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 15:51

WHY IS IT ALWAYS MY FAULT?

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Derpwagon
10/25/2019 at 15:52

JUST TAKE TWO MINUTES FIND YOUR LACTAID THAT WAY WE CAN JUST HAVE A NORMAL DINNER, JESUS’CHRIS’
- I’ve had real convos like this and now it’s taken a turn for the eerie

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > CompactLuxuryFan
10/25/2019 at 15:52

Someone backing out of their spot is only using their own time, while EVERYONE in the aisle has to wait for someone backing in. Most drivers also can’t and don’t back in swiftly. You’re the exception to why it’s annoying/unnecessary.

I watch people park all day at my work and most people take longer backing in and do a worse job in the amount of time it would take me to pull in and pull out.

fintail > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 15:57

Most of the crap parkers I see pull in forward, and then use a barrier to stop, or bump the car into a wall. There are exceptions, but the backer-inners around here anyway seem to have more wherewithal .

It stinks to be pulled in forward with SUVs/CUVs with tinted windows beside me.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 15:59

I work at a major tech company with hundreds of thousands of employees. Due to my job, I frequently end up all over campus and at many locations off campus. There are at least tens of parking garages and a hundred or more lots just on campus, with tens of thousands of parking spots overall.

1. People can’t stay between the lines pulling in forward, so it couldn’t be much worse.

2. People that back in are far more likely to be between the lines and straight in their spots. This is confirmed by our internal discussion site that has a channel just for posting photographs of and shaming “parking fails”.

3. With cameras on every car built in the last 5 years and most for the last 10, there are fewer and fewer cars that need to back until they hit something. Also, how is this much different from the people that ram their front wheels into whatever is there?

4. It’s the way everyone parks in most of the world and works fine when people generally do it. People in the US nose into parking spaces because they are short-term thinkers.

5. It’s so much safer to back in and forward out that many companies require their commercial drivers to do this to reduce the number of incidents...

Derpwagon > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 16:00

-uh....panic... think of something not eerie...

ONLY IF YOU LET ME CRUSH IT UP AND SNORT IT OFF YOUR ASS, BABE

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Derpwagon
10/25/2019 at 16:26

And... End Scene! That’s a wrap folks. Good job everyone.

Kinja'd!!!

Derpwagon > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
10/25/2019 at 16:43

Kinja'd!!!

xc90v8/I4 :( > Ash78, voting early and often
10/25/2019 at 16:49

Unpainted plastic is the easier way of telling I think

CompactLuxuryFan > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 16:52

I don’t understand what you mean with that. Y ou’re blocking cross traffic whether you’re backing in or out. And backing in, on average, is faster and safer.

I may be the exception to backing in being annoying, but you’re probably the exception to backing out being annoying. Chances are the people you see struggling to back in aren’t much better backing out. If everyone regularly backed in, as a whole people would become better in no time and we’d end up with a better system overall.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > CompactLuxuryFan
10/25/2019 at 21:09

If you’re blocking both directions of traffic in the lane way when pulling in and not reversing you’re doing something wrong or you drive a big ass vehicle that requires a different parking method. My Volvo is pretty long and I don’t have to flare my turn into a space.

Backing in I have to overshoot the space, hope the person behind me knows my intention, and then reverse into the space. Outside of an ideal situation or slanted spots (which I do get are usually intended to be backed into) backing in takes more steps and more space than pulling in.

Personally I also think by that before we expect everyone to change their parking practices and ‘get good’, everyone needs to work on the on the basics like staying in one lane. You make some good points though, it is hands down safer

CompactLuxuryFan > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
10/25/2019 at 22:26

You don’t block when pulling in, but then you block when backing out. It’s the opposite of backing into the spot (you block on your way in, then you don’t on the way out).

A turn signal is more than enough for people to know you’re about to back in, again especially outside the US where it’s more common.