The Golden Lotus

Parking

So WTF is up with people's inability to park?

One badly parked car, affects the next parked car, and so on and the butterfly effect becomes true. An entire row of badly parked cars. Some might argue is the same as an entire row of well parked cars - but instead of all the cars being poorly parked but evenly spaced each of the cars are at their own unspecified weird angle, pinched in so that there is no choice but to bang your door when you get out, or, if you're really unlucky, next to a superlong truck so you have to negotiate backing out when you leave.

Now last I heard driving tests no longer include the skill of parallel parking. That's crazy to me. The gas pedal is more than an on-off switch. Driving a car is not simply go, stop. Have we gotten to the point where all drivers are required to be LESS skilled.

I might be one of the few people on earth with the god-given ability to manage the physical dimensions of the car I'm driving, while slowly negotiating my gas and break pedals, while steering the car into the allotted space. (I won't get into the rant about the SIZE of parking spots.) Nor am I above backing out of a space to try again.

Maybe what this all comes down to is how our society has become less considerate. And frankly, what this entire world could use is a little more consideration.

posted by Dan @ 8:50 AM