Of Rain and Parking Nazis

[dr_nebula]

If you live in the southeast, you are like feeling the effects of Tropical Storm Ida. For Northern Georgia, this means another 3 to 5+ inches of rain during a likely record settling Autumn (and year). Flood watches and warnings (surprise!) have been posted yet again for the region. Blah.

The Inept Parking NaziToday's commute was rather soggy, but

Comments

[weofodthignen]

I always sucked at it, and I tended to drive immense vehicles. But if I have to, I can - it'll just take several tos and fros and getting out to measure the gap.

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[arasirsul]

I learned to parallel park in a Chevy Suburban. If there's almost enough room, I can get a vehicle into it.

And that's _before_ the big chrome bumpers come into the picture...

[miintikwa]

Dude, what a jerk.

My favorite parallel parking experience was with Jim. He was driving a Pike electricity repair truck, and we parallel parked downtown. BIG ASS TRUCK. leeetle bitty parking space (to my eyes). He parked it in three moves, and we got out and had lunch.

That man can DRIVE.

[lafemmedesfemme]

i parallel park my minivan about once a week. it's not the largest vehicle i've ever driven, but it's the largest i've ever owned, so i've gotten pretty good at getting it into theoretically big-enough spaces. an embarrassing incident that happened about a week after i bought my minivan taught me to really pay attention to that sort of thing. :-)

[yndy]

Lived in a neighborhood that pretty much required that you have mad skillz or be willing to walk 2 miles for years. Fortunately, I've always had innate parallel parking skills... I blame it entirely on having a thing for "Donald Duck in Mathamagicland" as a small child. (See: Disney films they played on bad weather days when I was in grade school for reference)