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My parallel parking skills have gotten pretty bad. The pulling in between two cars is fine, but I'm paranoid of curbing my car so the driver's side of my car always ends up sitting on the line

 

I took driving lessons in HS and the dude taught me a surefire system for parallel parking involving lining up my sideview mirror with wheels and mirrors and shit. Then I went to college and didn't get my license for a year and forgot it all. I wish I remembered.

 

That dude had a super strong air freshener and beaded seats and he'd play Breakfast With the Beatles the whole time. He'd have lessons really early on Saturday mornings and I'd still be a little drunk from the night before (too young to get actual hangovers). Bad memories, potentially the reason I can never really be a Beatles guy. Strong sense memories tied to a lot of their songs.

 

I am the best at parallel parking. Some say maybe the best. Nobody parallel parks like me.

 

this is what I do and it’s why I’m the best.

 

I've never knowingly parallel parked.

 

Never been into a city where it's the only option??

 

There are certain parts of the city I'd never consider living in solely because parallel parking is the only option. I can do it, but I can't imagine coming home from work and potentially having to parallel park every day. Fuck that.

 

Having to parallel park every day would be fine if I had a designated spot but having to find a spot every time I came home would be terrible.

 

Yeah I guess I should rephrase and say I would not live in a house where I'd need to find a parking spot every day. We lived in an apartment in one of the nicer parts of the city and the only drawback was having to find a spot, sometimes blocks away, every single goddamn day.

 

David Morse lived up the street above a Fresh Market grocery store but he had a private parking garage. He wore dumb hats when he walked around.

 

how would one unknowingly parallel park?

 

No, and honestly, a city where your only option is to park on the side of the road sounds like the kind of place that doesn't want visitors.

 

It's fun to think about, isn't it?

 

You'd rather pave paradise to put up a parking lot?

 

I hate turning right into a spot to park

I always try to turn left into a parking spot

 

parking lots and cars are evil

 

I’m the opposite

 

Cities are the best, especially cities where you don’t need a car to get around reliably. When I returned to the Detroit area and was driving again after 6-7 years in Chicago without a car, I had long forgotten how to parallel park.

 

do you not enter a fugue dissociative state when you drive

I mean I would never do that you could kill someone

 

You're right but I'd also argue that if you can't back into a spot safely/efficiently you shouldn't be driving. The backing into the spot isn't the issue; it's the person behind the wheel.

 

Have to find a spot and parallel park everyday. Sometimes after work I'll park further away if there's a spot where I can just pull up to the curb because I don't have the mental capacity to parallel park. I do drive a Fiat though so I can usually squeeze in anywhere. Parallel parking on the opposite side when it's a one-way street is a trip though.

 

public transit

 

anything that doesn't revolve around cars is antithetical to american life, get used to it