Parallel parking
I’m good at parallel parking. This is probably a pretty stupid thing to be proud of, but I can’t help it. Whenever I squeeze into a space that everybody else has passed over as too small, I grin like a fool.
Go me.
I’m good at parallel parking. This is probably a pretty stupid thing to be proud of, but I can’t help it. Whenever I squeeze into a space that everybody else has passed over as too small, I grin like a fool.
Go me.
April 20th, 2006 at 4:42 am
[...] Whenever I squeeze into a space that everybody else has passed over as too small, I grin like a fool. [...]
April 20th, 2006 at 9:34 am
And no parking by braille I presume? No bumps to either front or back?
That is freaking amazing.
Living in SF with parking spots at a premium, this skill of yours would be prized beyond compare.
I do okay if I don’t think about it – although there was this one time where my wife and brother-in-law were in hysterics on the sidewalk watching my attempts – which I claimed increased the stress level and made it that much more difficult.
April 20th, 2006 at 11:12 am
I had to hone my parallel skills quite a bit when I lived in the heart of Waikiki. Talk about a tight supply! Being good at it is great, being proud of it even better, but documenting it with photographs is downright… something else!
April 20th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Heh. I’m not that good. Sorry to disillusion you Leo, but I did bump my way in. Kissed ‘em front and back. Hey, that’s why they’re called bumpers, right?
I try to make sure nobody is in the other cars when I’m doing so, though. Once I kissed the front car and rocked it ever so slightly — and the guy who’d been dozing in his reclined seat woke up and gave me hell. Oops.
And Ryan, this is what happens when you’ve just gotten a new phone and are getting used to the idea that now you’re carrying a camera around everywhere. I guess it is a little overboard, huh.
April 21st, 2006 at 7:40 am
What’s the opposite of parallel parking? Perpendicular parking? Orthogonal parking?
Anyway, whatever you want to call it, I’m proud of that. You might think that’s a pretty weird thing to be proud of until you’ve seen parking stalls in my office parking structure.
Of course, actually trying to get the doors open once you’re wedged between two cars with about 2″ on either side is usually more challenging than parking.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:31 am
Perpendicular parking, I guess. Although then what do you call the easiest but least space-optimized style, beloved of big mall parking lots — diagonal parking?
I am willing to bet that there is technical jargon for all of that in the parking lot design and construction business. But I will not google to find it. I refuse. I’m not that obsessive. Really. I won’t.
As for wedging yourself in, well, that’s where having a convertible top would come in really handy. Or in this car, I could probably fold down the rear seat backs, pop open the trunk, and crawl out. Undignified but effective.
April 21st, 2006 at 8:58 am
Fortunately, I *am* that obsessive. (Or bored…) According to Wikipedia, the phrase is perpendicular parking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_parking
According to this site:
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/parkingterms.htm
the proper phrase for diagonal stalls is “Angle Parking”.
April 30th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
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Shaka Bra! Get Pictures!
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I like it. As foa da parking!
Hero!
Lynn