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Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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My wife lived in Manhattan for decades, and she had to have a car for her work, so she had loads of practice parallel parking. Bystanders used to applaud when she shoehorned into an impossibly small slot. She was even recruited by others to parallel park their cars. She's always goading me to squeeze into what I think are too small spaces. I've renewed my skills ... a little. Our medium sized city is fairly suburban, with plenty of free parking most places, so it is not a skill I use often. Practice is everything.
The old joke: A tourist asks a New Yorker how to get to Carnegie Hall, and the New Yorker responds, "Practice, practice, practice."
 

mortonbriar

Lifer
Oct 25, 2013
2,812
6,139
New Zealand
I remember thinking when I was a kid that by the time I was driving they would probably invent cars with an extra set of little sideways wheels so you don't have to manoeuvre much to parallel park. I feel like what I was really looking for was a........................................................................
........................................................................parallel universe.
 

Grangerous

Lifer
Dec 8, 2020
3,534
14,656
East Coast USA
Had to parallel park in front of my first house. Doing it daily makes one a pro. Same car. Same spot. Same turn of the wheel. No surprises.

Steering the topic to one’s tobacco.

No surprises is what I most enjoy about a familiar blend.

Your Mileage may vary.
 
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lraisch

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 4, 2011
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I recall sitting in my car filling out the paperwork after completing a service call and watching a woman make futile attempts at parallel parking in front of me. Mind you there was at least enough room for her to park two cars in that space and after three increasingly poor attempts she drove off. Apparently she parked somewhere nearby because she walked past my car and started berating me for not getting out of her way.