It's a driving one (with diagram)

[TheOrigBrave]

Explanation coming....

This is why you should always reverse into parking spaces.

I wouldn't worry about it. You were on the ball, you saw her and stopped and let her pass. If the worst thing that happens today is a glare from a pedestrian then you're doing OK!

Or, perhaps she was suicidal and you ruined her plans...

At point 3, I look over shoulder

You should have been looking there before point 3.

Reversing into my parking space still means I am reversing in the car park. It makes no difference whether it's on my way in or out.

Is your spot beside a dead end wall/fence?

Pedestrians are generally useless around cars. I still go cold when I think of reversing out of a space and noticing a woman walking behind the car as I was half out so I stopped. For some reason she wasn't holding the hand of her tiny child who was metres behind and luckily not behind my car.

Reversing into my parking space still means I am reversing in the car park. It makes no difference whether it's on my way in or out.

Not quite what the highway code says.

I hate it when pedestrians walk behind my reversing car. I reverse park into all spaces except when I do the supermarket shop (like most people, i need easy access to my boot). The amount of people that decide mid way through my reverse out of the space they're going to walk behind my car astounds me. Obviously I always see them and stop, but the arrogance of it pisses me off. YANBU OP

It's not my drive way, it's a spot in a non-highway gravel area outside our houses.

I would need to do many more manoeuvres to reverse in. Highway Code says reverse into driveway if you can.

but the arrogance of it pisses me off

This does seem odd. It's the same arrogance that I have when I'm on a main road and I drive arrogantly past junctions with minor roads. They've got right of way!

Perhaps I didn't explain myself properly. There are pedestrian walkways within the car park. There are in every supermarket car park near to me. But people choose to walk on the 'road', instead of using the walkways as much as possible. That's their choice, but if I'm over 50% of reversing out of my space I think it's a bit rude and dangerous that when they approach pushing their trolley that they don't at least stop and wait. That's what I would do.

Normally it's a moot point because I much prefer to reverse into spaces, however as I said if I'm doing a big shop I sometimes pull forward into my space to access the boot.

People choose to walk on the “road” they are allowed to, it’s fine to walk or run on the road. The advice is in the Highway Code as walking against the flow of traffic

By the way if I only walked on the designated walkways at my local supermarket I’d never get out the car - they are only beside the disabled bays - walk ways marked in red