Can you parallel park?

[prolesunited]

Due to the shame that can often accompany this condition, here's an anonymous poll. Feel free to share your anxiety or pride if you like.

[NaturalHigh]

1. I like to consider myself...

a parallel-parking ninja. My wife disagrees (about the parallel-parking part).

[BikeWriter]

8. I once put a big Buick back into a spot my ex couldn't get a VW out of...

True story!

[VelmaD]

12. I got you beat...

I learned to drive in a Lincoln Town Car. I took my driving test in that land boat and passed. I parallel parked that mutha. :)

[BikeWriter]

18. Lincolns used to be big cars. I had one for years.

[Doctor_J]

14. Same here

I am a maestro. It amazes my kids, whose driving instruction never included that skill.

[billyskank]

2. I suppose yes

but it's very rare for me to get it in one motion. There is usually a little bit of shuffling forwards and backwards to get it close enough to the kerb. Does that disqualify me?

[motely36]

3. Living in the city with no driveway

I have to!

[Demit]

4. On a dime! (city dweller)

[eyesroll]

5. I have street parking, so I have to

I can get my car into a spot with a foot of extra space. (Someone else's car? Maybe not. But mine's small and easy to maneuver.)

Oddly, I can't parallel park worth a damn on the left side (i.e. on a one-way street).

I couldn't parallel park at all, though, until I was in college and had a car parked on the streets of Beloit. I would at first try to find spaces adjacent to driveways and crosswalks, to give myself a little more room, and Hedges tried to teach me and eventually I just figured it out. (I can parallel park better than he can these days.)

[Patiod]

6. Can put car into spot exactly the size of the car

It's all about practice, and I lived for three years in an apartment building with no parking lot - onstreet parking only.

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. What's funny is that I'm really good at parallel parking, but I failed it

on my drivers test. Go figure. :shrug:

[LynneSin]

9. I can, but it's easier when a don't have a man in the car

Men always seem to want to give me instructions when I try to parallel park - crap like TURN TURN CUT CUT TURN CUT CUT. IT's like "STFU - I know what I'm doing". I got to the point that I usually just kick whatever man is in the car out of the car and then I pull right in

[caty]

10. Yes

I a good little parallel parker.

[In_The_Wind]

11. yes

including a 40 foot school bus

[barb162]

13. Easy as pie

[Dogmudgeon]

15. I used to live in Philly

Yes, I can parallel park like a muthafukka.

What's the deal with the gender thing?

--p!

[RubyDuby in GA]

16. I had to learn and take my test in a station wagon

I could parallel park the space shuttle, assuming the hubcaps wouldn't be falling off.

[SmokingJacket]

17. Poorly, but I do it. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. I can't drive. No license. BUT back in HS when I was in driver's ed

parallel parking was on e of the things I was best at.

[yvr girl]

20. Why are you making me relive one of the worst 4 hour segments of my life?

A 4 hour parallel parking lessen with my dad, in the rain.

"AGAIN!" "AGAIN!" "AGAIN!" (You get the idea - did I mention my dad had been a Drill Sargent?)

This is back in the day when cars, were cars too. Damn-straight I can parallel park.

[RedCloud]

21. Can if the fuzz are watching!

Amazing how unused skills reemerge at the right moment!

[Susang]

22. I have to, no choice in the matter

Chicago streets and all. ;-)

[dajoki]

23. i'm the best

parallel parker i know. changellers?:woohoo:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. Sometimes. I'm a Transvestite.

nt

[GiovanniC]

25. I Can...

But it's much easier if nobody is parked behind me or in front of me.

:bounce:

[Shell Beau]

26. It really depends on how much space I am allowed and

the parking space. But most of the time, I can.

[Lilyhoney]

27. I am an excellent parker.

I grew up in the city. One of my favorite past times was watching people try to parallel park. Some people just really don't get it. :shrug:

[quisp]

28. Hell Yeah, I can parallel park!

I've been doing it since I started "borrowing" my Dad's '65 VW Bug when I was 12 years old!

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. Of course I can....

I live in the big, bad city.

[chaska]

30. I parallel parked a tractor trailer this morning....

twice.

[prolesunited]

31. Happy to see a man admitted to this affliction

and seeing as how I'm such a minority, perhaps Jason will teach me and help me conquer my disability.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

32. No, I can't drive either. So it doesn't really count.

[Bucky]

33. According to these results, being able to parallel park is more likely...

...to cause you to be a woman.

[prolesunited]

35. Excellent logic!

The freepers would be proud. ;-)

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

34. I failed parallel parking on my driver's test

and haven't tried to do it for real. I probably can't though.

[seaglass]

36. Does it count if you end up 3 feet from curb? If that counts then

yes I can do it.

[prolesunited]

42. No, it doesn't

You sound like me.

[kitkatrose]

37. Theoretically, yes.

I haven't had to since drivers ed though. It wasn't even required to get my license. :shrug:

[bigwillq]

38. Well of course

Working and playing in New Haven (CT) makes you PP very often. You must be able to PP in this city b/c the parking is awful.

[MidnightWind]

39. Did it once to get my driver's license and haven't done it again

I've been known to go very far out of my way to AVOID having to parallel park!

[SeanQuinn]

40. I can't park or drive.

Underage, but learning. :D

[supernova]

41. I can parallel park my van:

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Not to save my life

Only thing I failed on my driver's test, and all I had to do was parallel park behind a car (without any other cars behind that one).

Fuck it, I just can't do it.

I did it once, with two friends helping, and about 20 back and forths, when I was in my late 20s, and i said "fuck it, never again".

And I've never tried it since.

[skygazer]

44. Yes

I can also back up a trailer. :bounce:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

45. I grew up parking in the city. I'm an expert.

;-)

[Left_Winger]

46. Can I parallel park? Of course!

[yellowdogintexas]

47. oh yes. There once was I time when I could not, but necessity

taught me how to do it and do it well.

Stick shift, no problem
Left side of the street vs right side of the street, no problem.


My husband once told our daughter that if he ever knew anyone who could park anything on a dime, it was me. I considered that a very high compliment.

[undeterred]

48. Very well, but I can't drive a stick shift

:blush:

[flamingyouth]

49. Yes, and I usually have to do it at least once a day