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And be around people? No thanks.

 

Sounds more like a you problem then

 

Nah, I'm fine.

 

I feel like I shouldn't have to say I'm not 100% being serious, but in case I grudgingly do, (taps sign)

 

I’m only slightly exaggerating when I say I could probably have parallel parked my Camry with my eyes closed when I lived in the city. I’m still pretty good at it but it’s not second nature anymore and the backup cam on the car I have now is doing a lot of work for me.

 

me, you. Camry. Living in the city. Parallel parking pros.

 

Love my minivan but I do miss the Camry.

 

Honda and Toyota ftw

 

i loooooove my camry. unless my needs change I would be happy to keep buying them for the rest of my life

 

pulling through is a case by case basis. if you are at a grocery store and need to put groceries in the trunk or if you have a child and need to get a stroller, pulling through is more difficult than it is helpful

 

also the cars with rear camera make it extremely easy to back in and to parallel park. if you have one of those and still struggle with it, you're just bad at driving

 

Back up cameras are great. Sucks when it's rainy or snowy and it makes it impossible to see through though

 

analog driving is fine too

 

The pull through is clutch except for the dumbasses that do it when the parking lot is all one way lanes and now they're exiting going against traffic.

 

I will add a good amount of extra walking to park with nobody on either side of me.

 

I will park with my drivers' side to a curb or grass so I don't have to worry about hitting the car next to me when I get out.

 

I just hit shit, that what insurance is for

 

The fun part of living on the seacoast is your door getting ripped wide open by the wind the second you pull the handle and praying it doesn't hit something

 

Praying is for uninsured losers

 

You know just car prankes.

 

Wild

 

I parallel parked once with a few inches to spare in front and back and when I was getting the kids out of my car a random guy walked by and said nice job.

 

I annotate a lot of my books. In philosophy/theory/history it's almost a necessity, but in literature I like having that immediate reference to what spoke to me. I can pull out my copy of Brothers Karamozov/Infinite Jest/Paradise Lost/etc. and quickly find the sections that meant the most to me in my readings, and when I reread a book I've annotated, I'm faced with immediate access to the younger version of myself who was grappling with a text for the first (or second, or sometimes third) time. I remember certain books better when I annotate/highlight, because it forces me to spend more time with the page in the moment and inspires more reflection. When I buy used books (usually at John King, the best used bookstore in the world) and they're annotated by a previous reader, I appreciate the reminder that even a text that doesn't literally change is fluid and alive, and is defined at least in part by others as much as myself. Being faced with an alternative perspective while reading something in the moment takes me outside of myself, and makes me more considerate of whatever it is I'm reading in that moment.

That said, I've seen annotations/notes in used books that are hilariously insane/inscrutable. But I'm still very pro-annotating in a book. My Kerouacs are documents of my teenage/early college self and I like being able to access that person.

 

Yeah I am 1000% in favor of annotating in books, which is a major drawback in my recent transition to kindle books