The Question of the Day: Number Two.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but I'll make it the Question Of The Day to ponder. Today's Question of the Day is:

Why do people bother backing into parking lot spaces?

Think about it. It takes, say, x amount of time to pull into a parking lot space nose-first, and y amount of time to back out of that same space later on and pull away. So, algebraically:

x + y = total time spent on parking related matters.

By backing in first, don't you just reverse that? Doesn't it take just as much time to back in first as it does to back out later? And doesn't it take just as much time to park nose first as it does to pull out nose first later?

So backing into a parking space is pointless... except for this: It takes longer to back up than to pull forward. So by backing into the space, you are spending more time before your planned activity-- whatever it is-- and less time after it.

Meaning that when you back into the parking space, the message you are sending to the world is: Whatever it is I'm about to do, it's less important to me than whatever it is I'm doing after this.

Read Question of the Day 1 here.

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