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Rather than backing into parking spaces which seems to be the latest fad, I look for a pull-thru spot farther from the store or business. It makes it just as easy and safe to pull out and I get more exercise. And I park as far away as necessary to find a pull thru spot, often next to a cart return cage which I feel helps protect my truck more. I just shake my head when I see someone waiting for someone else to pull out from a front row spot when a pull thru is available just a short distance away. Evidently, people really believe they're getting extra points by parking in those front row spots.
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Rather than backing into parking spaces which seems to be the latest fad, I look for a pull-thru spot farther from the store or business. It makes it just as easy and safe to pull out and I get more exercise. And I park as far away as necessary to find a pull thru spot, often next to a cart return cage which I feel helps protect my truck more. I just shake my head when I see someone waiting for someone else to pull out from a front row spot when a pull thru is available just a short distance away. Evidently, people really believe they're getting extra points by parking in those front row spots.
I do this exact thing.
 
Rather than backing into parking spaces which seems to be the latest fad, I look for a pull-thru spot farther from the store or business. It makes it just as easy and safe to pull out and I get more exercise. And I park as far away as necessary to find a pull thru spot, often next to a cart return cage which I feel helps protect my truck more. I just shake my head when I see someone waiting for someone else to pull out from a front row spot when a pull thru is available just a short distance away. Evidently, people really believe they're getting extra points by parking in those front row spots.
I pay more for pull throughs in campsites and worth every penny extra.
 
Hand tight has always been my rule on filters and filter bowls, unless the manual calls for a specific torque.

As far as my most ignored rule, I have kids so I’ll have to give that some thought.
After some consideration, it has to be a tie between “no running in the house” and “no demonic voices from the Woody doll”.
 
Having the wife help with backing any truck-trailer into a spot. Usually ends in a fight. :) Usually after she says something like, "go that way" (w/ no hand gestures) :unsure:.

Now, after 33 years of marriage, when we arrive ... she jumps out, does her own thing ... and I back the trailer in all on my own. It results in use not starting our camping adventure pissed at one another.
 
Seatbelts. Never wore them as kids, most trips are just a couple miles on backroads, still buckle it behind me or find a dummy plug so it doesn’t ding, but my wife is always on my butt to wear them on the highways and interstate. By myself in a semi or a pickup the only time it’s on is when I’m getting pulled over, just not something I think about I guess.
You clearly think about it.
 
... often next to a cart return cage which I feel helps protect my truck more.
I agree and do this too, although I recently saw a shopper who was returning his shopping cart to the cage and when he got about 20 feet away, gave it a healthy push toward the return cage. I guess he thought it was going to go into it, but instead it missed the opening of the cage and hit the vehicle that was parked next to the cage. He just shrugged it off and got in his car and left.
 
Bike helmets/Ski helmets. If you wiped out ... you picked yourself up ... repeat (made for a good scar and story to tell). We're raising a bunch of "wimps" :ROFLMAO:.
 
Rather than backing into parking spaces which seems to be the latest fad, I look for a pull-thru spot farther from the store or business. It makes it just as easy and safe to pull out and I get more exercise. And I park as far away as necessary to find a pull thru spot, often next to a cart return cage which I feel helps protect my truck more. I just shake my head when I see someone waiting for someone else to pull out from a front row spot when a pull thru is available just a short distance away. Evidently, people really believe they're getting extra points by parking in those front row spots.
I don't think it's so much a fad as safety. A lot of companies require drivers of company vehicles to back into spots, due to it being a safer way to go, which sometimes you have to when there's no pull through type parking spaces. But yes, I find 2 empty spots and pull through also, makes way more sense.
 
Seatbelts. Never wore them as kids, most trips are just a couple miles on backroads, still buckle it behind me or find a dummy plug so it doesn’t ding, but my wife is always on my butt to wear them on the highways and interstate. By myself in a semi or a pickup the only time it’s on is when I’m getting pulled over, just not something I think about I guess.
Best friend was the same way. He was ejected out the passenger window in a rollover on the way to my 21st birthday. Guy in front of them lost a bunch of limbs off his trailer. He was tore up beyond recognition, died 3 weeks later in a medical coma from respirator-acquired pneumonia, as his parents watched. The driver walked away with just a bruise, thanks to the seatbelt. It was an accident that became a tragedy, but didn’t have to.

@Dave N - something to consider.
 
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