The upside of parking your car backwards

When you’re playing with your kid in the car, to face the street feel safer?

Kind of reminds me how mafia dons prefer to sit at the back of the restaurant, with their back against the wall, and facing directly the entrance, to make sure that they don’t get stabbed in the back, or snuffed out in the back. For example remember how the hitman in the godfather was made vulnerable.