Originally Posted by
jal
I didn't have a clue what was going on until the OPs 2nd post...
Perhaps not a perfect description, but I think the OP was doing something like the following...
OP is driving down the road and there is a parking spot on the other side of the street. Just past the parking spot (relative to the OPs direction of travel) is an 'alley' (entrance to a parking lot). Since the road wasn't wide enough to make a U-turn, the OP pulls into the alley and begins to back into this spot such that when finished, OPs car will be pointing the opposite direction for the side of the road OP is parked on. While OP is in the alley and begins to backup, another driver coming from the other direction passes the parking spot and then backs into it in the 'typical' parallel parking procedure.
OPs b!+ch is that the other driver saw the OP trying to back into the parking spot from the alley, but moved faster to "steal" the parking spot.