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"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 03/29/2019 at 15:43 • Filed to: Bad Parking

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Walked to the grocery store after work in Lunenburg and saw this when walking to and from my car.....ummm...

If you can’t tell, these are those angled parking spaces in a very large lot and that is a 9th gen Honda Civic sedan pretty much in the middle of a lane. I thought that surely this couldn’t be somebody who is SO bad at parking they had no idea they were not inside the lines and halfway across the driving lane in between rows of spaces. I was right! They WEREN’T so bad at parking they didn’t know they weren’t inside the lines....

...they were so bad at parking that the car is a stick-shift and they forget to set the parking brake or have it in the appropriate gear so it wouldn’t roll away. There is a SLIGHT downhill slope to the right and the car was in first gear...they are just damn lucky it didn’t end up rolling in somebody’s car in the rows to the right...

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 15:56

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I almost did that yesterday. Got out of the car, was about to hit the  lock button and then when “PARKING BRAKE” in my head. I’m Car was in neutral and the brake wasn’t on

OPPOsaurus WRX > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 16:01

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the other m orning i forgot my coffee so I went to run back inside and my car started to take off, I was still in drive.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 16:04

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...Do people not park in gear? Looking at you, HFV

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > OPPOsaurus WRX 03/29/2019 at 16:04

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Ouch, lucky you caught it!!!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 03/29/2019 at 16:05

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I only think I’ve managed to pull the same forgetful act when I first got my Subaru when I was new-ish to driving stick. I always try to double-check it’s in the right gear with the brake set when I get out every since!

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > OPPOsaurus WRX 03/29/2019 at 16:41

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I did that once when I first started my delivery job. I hadn’t driven an auto in a while, got out made a delivery came back And found the car in drive. Thankfully I had set the parking brake and parked into a snowbank, so even if wheels started to spring I don’t think it would have gone anywhere 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 03/29/2019 at 18:07

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Most people here do AFAIK - I always do!

pip bip - choose Corrour > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 03/29/2019 at 19:17

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i don’t normally

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/29/2019 at 19:22

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Why not? There’s nothing to lose putting it in gear. Don’t even wear out the clutch.

pip bip - choose Corrour > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 03/29/2019 at 19:28

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i use the handbrake

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/29/2019 at 19:33

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But why not both?

pip bip - choose Corrour > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 03/29/2019 at 19:34

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habit

pip bip - choose Corrour > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 03/29/2019 at 19:35

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pull up. wriggle the shifter to see its in neutral, then yank on the handbrake

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/29/2019 at 20:09

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...and then clutch out, put it in 1st, clutch in. I’ve had a handbrake cable snap before.

pip bip - choose Corrour > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 03/29/2019 at 20:19

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i’ve never had a cable snap................yet

AdverseMartyr > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 20:36

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I’m a bit confused. Do you mean it wasn’t in 1st? Or are you saying 1st isn’t the appropriate gear?

I guess I’m asking what gear you think is appropriate, reverse?

because all the higher gears decrease the rolling resistance, right? (Sorry, haven’t driven Manuel in 7 years so trying to remember some of the theory.)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AdverseMartyr 03/29/2019 at 22:14

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Yes, it was in first, yes higher gears decrease the rolling resistance, but the slope was facing down from the front of the car, so it was in a gear that allowed it to roll. Luckily the resistance was what saved it from rolling any more than it did, but it should ’ve been in reverse with the parking brake set as to not roll forward at all.