B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 07, 2024

Do people still park that way?

Got my license in 1967 and aced the parallel park test with a 1956 Chev station wagon.

Actually just finding a space takes longer than that.

Don’t get the joke.

What’s a car?

When you have to parallel park all the time, you can get quite good and fast at it. When I lived in Cincinnati (Ohio) I learned how to PP on either side of the road, and how to fit into some fairly tight spaces.

Now that cars have rear-view cameras it is quite easy to parallel park.

The problem is that there’s nothing there to be parallel to.

I just push a button and let the car park itself. Easy-Peasy. :)

…..make that twenty!!!!!

Almost no one seems to care if they are late for an appointment.

Jimmy Kimmel pranked his cousin Micki into doing a parallel parking demonstration for his show. Whether you like Kimmel or not, it’s a great clip (on Youtube).

I do it all the time. I never have a problem finding a parking spot because everyone else avoids having to parallel park.

Or you see a car that was parked at about 5:30 am, before everyone else got there.

If that was still part of the test to get a drivers license today, there would be a heck of a lot of Millennials driving without a license.

I’m still quite good at it after so many years but I do feel some concern that it seems so many people these days never developed the skill. Especially when you see so many vehicles parked nose in with a corner of the tail end sticking out into traffic. And they’re shocked when they get a ticket.

There’s a reason parallel parking is a lost art.

I can perfectly parallel park as long as their are no other cars within a mile.

I learned to drive in New York City on ice. I drove in the city for several years and I could get my car into a slot six inches longer than the car. I have not driven in the city for over 50 years. My current parallel parking skill is to pull up the the car in front of me from a half block away.

and I’ll show you the person who was the first to park on the block this morning.

I don’t know about others but I have trouble parallel parking because I have trouble backing up.

In the city there’s never enough space in between cars to park, unless you have Mini

They must be pre-Missourians.

Do those cars that park themselves really work in tight spaces?

Yup, in ’57 I got my 14 year-old Farm-boy drivers license by impressing my Examiner with the swiftest and most perfect.

I have trouble just backing out of angled parking spaces. Because I drive a car, and I’m always surrounded by BF trucks and SUVs and can’t see. Every-Effing-time!

I’ve seen those people and am glad I’m not one of them. :)

Word of advice, if your car has cameras, use them only to know how far you can go back and centering yourself between vehicles. ;)

And I’ll show you two db’s who parked in front of and behind him so close that he can’t get out.

I will show you someone with a self-parking vehicle.

Wasn’t a problem when I had my MINI Cooper. Now, with a slightly bigger car, I’ll park 2-3 blocks away from my destination. I blame it on my lack of depth perception.

it’s near impossible to perfectly parallel park