considered “manly” to perfectly align himself into a very spacious parking spot.
Not all men are good at parking and some men are very meticulous.
This has been an edition of City Notes.
Exactly how many did he make?
Occasionally I need to back out and re-align to go in straighter, but I’ve got a big car. Usually, if I’m between the lines, I’m satisfied, but sometimes I end up at a weird angle or too far to one side, so I’m either right up against an adjacent vehicle, or I will be if an adjacent space is empty and someone parks there.
Maybe I should file this under Completely Normal Situations That Get My Goat, but one of my (numerous) pet peeves is people who can’t park on the first try. I do not understand not being able to do this.
That being said, I do understand being completely irrational OCD perfectionist crazy :P, so if the guy feels strongly that parking his vehicle REQUIRES being equidistant from all lines, I totally get it.
he went back and forth 4 times. We’re talking about a generous spot here.
I must make a note to remember to lay awake nights, stressing out over whether or not I live up to the OP’s definition of “manly”.
I don’t mind people who can’t park straight on the first try, as long as they fix it. The ones who get me are the ones who do a half-assed job parking, pulling in at an angle or halfway over the line, and say “Good enough!” and just leave it there.
I think ‘woman parking’ was someone learning to drive stick shift.
Damn. I hate it when I accidentally open the 1953 version of the SDMB.
Saul Bellow, in Humboldt’s Gift, says that the way people parallel park is directly related to how they view their own rear ends.
Isn’t there a version of this where at the end the bad parker goes completely insane, crashing into parked cars all about in a frenzy to escape?
My gripe with the whole thing is this: IF you work a 9-5 job, you have to park, at minimum, twice a day. Once to go to work, once to go home.
You have 600+ practice shots per year, and you still aren’t getting it right? :eek:
I’m right with the OP - it’s harmless (unless I’m in a rush) but it annoys me somehow
I agree, I’d rather people take more time and maneuvers and fix it rather than park badly and just leave their cars like that. It’s not a big deal maybe in a giant parking lot like at Wal-Mart or at the mall, where it’s not a big deal if someone is almost over the line, since other drivers can find an empty spot just a few spots down or maybe a row over. But there are a lot of parking lots at small businesses, or in crowded areas where parking is limited, where if you park badly it makes it extremely difficult for anyone to park in the spot next to you, and so in those cases you definitely should straighten your car up better.
I can park without any trouble at work, no extra parking manuevers needed. I do sometimes have to line up my car at home and do extra manuevers, since I’m at an apartment complex and park in a parking garage and I don’t want to scrape a car or a concrete post (and all the concrete posts have marks on them from when other people have scrapped them). But even at home I can usually get it right without too much trouble since I have had lots of practice.
But at small, weirdly shaped parking lots with narrow parking spots, I will have more trouble and I don’t have as much practice parking there, so I will take more time and more parking manuevers to line up. I am realistic though, and if it seems like it will be way too much trouble and there is a line of traffic building up I will move on and try to find another parking spot and let someone else try for that one.
Did he put the rear wheels into some sort of skid?
My biggest parking peeve relates to the on-street parking directly in front of my apartment building’s security gate. It’s between two driveway cutouts in the sidewalk, and provides enough room for two and a half parked vehicles.
From time to time, I come home, and as I approach those spots I see only one vehicle parked there and think, “Great! I can park right in front of the gate!” and that’s when I see that the lone vehicle is parked exactly in the middle of the space, leaving insufficient empty space to park either behind it or in front of it.
Seriously, how difficult would it have been to pull all the way forward and leave enough space for the next person to pull in behind you?