PITA though when you got a cart full of groceries and have to pull out into the lane to load it because you can't get into your trunk because you backed into the spot.
I'm waiting in the car while the mrs is in the grocery store. CX-5 pulls into the parking lot, drives through 4 empty spaces with no cars around it to only park 4 spots closer to the doors in a spot crowded with other cars beside it. Also the time it took them to park between the other cars they could have parked and walked that far. I don't understand some people.
We were touring Quebec years ago with another couple. My "buddy" was driving and we pull into a strip mall, with tons of empty parking spots. So where does he park? In one spot between 2 cars
Maybe, just maybe there was good room between the two cars, and it affords you some protection from some a-hole who decides your car is parked all alone, so I'm going to park beside you real close so you aren't alone after all. Though even that doesn't save you. I parked between two cars that were far apart with lots of room, went in to Wally World to get a bday card...came out 5 minutes later. One car was gone, and some a-hole in an old Blazer (when they were little) parked like 9" away, and left a massive divot in my back door. Nothing I could do to get even because the facker's Blazer was so old and rusty, if I'd scratched the shi# out of the paint it wouldn't have changed anything. For him. I would've felt better, but I would've felt better if I'd have left him 3 flat tires too. 7 years and I'm still holding on!!