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August 23, 2008 | Filed in: Adventure

On Friday, while running some errands to get ready for my trip to the Bahamas next week (yay!), I came face to face with one of the greatest fears…  well, besides clowns and white foods…

PARALLEL PARKING!

I will freely admit that I’m not the greatest driver in the world, but I’m passable.  However, when it comes to parking, I’m a disaster.  However, having lived in super suburbia for the overwhelming majority of my life, I’ve usually been able to avoid actually dealing with the problem.  But now that we living in an actual city, complete with crappy parking, I am being forced to face this deficiency head on.

So yesterday, when I did this, totally unassisted, I was rather thrilled with myself:

I know that I’m 27 years old and this is something that I should have figured out a long time ago.  I know that this isn’t even a particularly tight parking spot and that many people wouldn’t even consider this to really be an example of parallel parking.  I know that you can barely see the back bumper of the red car in front of me, but I swear to God it’s there and I had to do the whole “drive up to the mirror of the car in front of you, back into the space, straighten out, blah blah blah” thing.  I was so excited that I took a picture of it and am now writing a blog post about my accomplishment.

Thank you for sharing this with me, and please refrain from mocking as much as possible.


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I also share the same deficiency so i won’t mock youat all. I’ve never heard that “pull up to the other cars mirror” trick, I’ll have to try that!
Good job on that park job!

By Zona on 08.23.08 2:14 pm | Permalink

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