Every morning a guy circulates the company car park to find a 'double end on' empty bay! why, because he can't reverse a car into a parking slot! Has an 'in & out drive' at home and avoids 'cul de sacs' and muilt storey car parks!
The local doctor at the end of our road reverses using a mobile phone while his wife directs him on her mobile phone walking behind!
And these people are allowed to have a licence!
Whats your amusing story?
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Golf in the works carpark this morning. Only half in the bay, front end sticking out half into the road.
Unbelievable.
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It seems* that it's the owners of small cars who often have problems with parking. Most people with a Merc S class or similar can slot them into spaces first time!
but obviously I'm not going to prove it with evidence or anything!
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It's true Gareth!
When I had the use of a Corsa recently (usual motor = Saab 9-5) I could never get it straight in the parking bays as there was so much room. Bigger cars that only just fit into bays seem easier to park eg. my brother's Landie 110, but that might just be the huge mirrors it has giving you a decent view.
I'm so used to reversing into spots, I never seem to be able to drive into spaces forward, I always misjudge it.
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yes when I used to drive larger cars such as the Mondeo,Lagunas etc easy then downsized to astras and civic and same problem in reverse into slots can be embrassing !
Hired a Transit last week and easy.
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The local doctor at the end of our road reverses using a mobile phone while his wife directs him on her mobile phone walking behind!
I wonder if he ever considered just winding the window down so they could hear each other?
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>> The local doctor at the end of our road reverses using >> a mobile phone while his wife directs him on her mobile >> phone walking behind! I wonder if he ever considered just winding the window down so they could hear each other?
...especially as, by putting the phone down, he has both hands free and can therefore manoeuvre the car more easily. Let's not even mention the whole "mobile phone, illegal to use while driving" thing.
What gets into these people?
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Looking for a free bay in the very crowded car park at Leeds Uni at Horsforth on Sunday I was following a Volvo 740 estate full of parents, student(s) and luggage round the various car parks. Suddenly, a miracle! Two adjacent bays cleared simultaneously. Together the Volvo driver and I swooped on the vacant spaces. Unfortunately, the Volvo evidently needed more room than everyone else for he drove up the white line separating the bays. As a display of precision selfish parking, it was unique. Wishing the driver premature engine failure on the way home, I continued my search ...
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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>>Unfortunately, the Volvo evidently needed more room than everyone else for he drove up the white line separating the bays. As a display of precision selfish parking, it was unique.
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Good idea! Always take up two parking spaces so twice as many people will be glad when you leave?
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I once had a car with no reverse gear. It took quite a lot of planning to find a parking place I could get out of, and a few times I had to ask folks to gimme a push.
It all got a bit tedious after a while.
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Give me a tight space, parallel, reverse, whatever and I can generally slot the car in first time. Given plenty of room I often have to have a few goes to get it straight or close enough to the kerb. Odd, that.
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Its the same for narrow lanes when driving. I think that is has been proven that if you give drivers narrower lanes then they drive more safely or something like that.
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Could be talking about me in your post - having thought about it I guess you concentrate more when it's tight and switch off when you've plenty of room.
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Parking for me is usually no problem - a tight spot with a flash bit of reversing can be an enjoyable challenge especially useful when wanting to impress!
But I had a bad back a while ago and just couldn't turn behind to look, so I needed at least a double space every time so as to cut out the reversing bit.
Does this mean I shouldn't be driving?
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Does this mean I shouldn't be driving?
No, but you may want to order a car without easily scuffed alloys.
Ooops, too late....
;o)
Seriously though, a Transit or even Escort Van driver can only reverse on the mirrors, i.e. without looking over their shoulder to their rear quarter. Provided you have your mirrors adjusted to allow for your more limited movement then I don't see a problem.
ND
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A colleague of my missus reversed his car into, and down the side of, her car in the work car park. The real embarrassment to him however wasn't just that he kept going long afer the first 'crunch', but that the car park is large, and hers was the only other car parked at the time! Doh.
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I wont use the nearest multi-story car park to where I live. Tried it once, bays are ridculously narrow and even in a small car there is very little room to manouver. You are also guaranteed a couple of door "dings" for every day you park in it.
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When I used to live in Staines, I lived on an estate where there was always a competition to get home from work first in order to secure a parking spot. I frequently used to witness a lady 'maneouvering' some large-ish Toyota in an attempt to get it closer to the curb. She would go back and forth, back and forth, sometimes up to twenty times (I counted), getting no closer to the curb whatsoever. It was hilarious. MOVE THE STEERING WHEEL!
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I remember visiting New Zealand and borrowing my son's Mitsubishi Mirage Turbo, outrageously lowered and noisy, a real boy racer car. It had bucket racing type seats in. After shopping at the local B&Q equivalent, I found I couldn't get reverse gear. I had to open the door and push the car back to get out of the parking space. It was only some time later that I realised that my short legs meant that I had pushed the seat so far forward that the gear lever fouled on it when selecting reverse. My son, with longer legs, had no problem. I felt somewhat embarrassed driving the car, but the performance on boost, with attendant noises, was quite intoxicating.
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There is some truth to the contention that "bigger" may be easier. When I had my massive Ford F-150 with its big convex mirrors I could place that thing in reverse within a gnat's whisker of anything, even my carport full of other cars and bikes. Now with the smaller Lynx I can't get it in backwards for toffee, always end up at an odd angle despite the fact loads more room around me.
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My Selfish Git Of The Year award would go to the driver of the large, Essex Lottery Winner spec. 4x4 seen reversing in my local supermarket car park, to the tune of "Attention! Vehicle reversing! Attention! Vehicle Reversing!"
Guess what? He parked diagonally across two parking spaces.
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My Selfish Git Of The Year award would go to the driver of the large, Essex Lottery Winner spec. 4x4 seen reversing in my local supermarket car park, to the tune of "Attention! Vehicle reversing! Attention! Vehicle Reversing!" Guess what? He parked diagonally across two parking spaces.
He seems to be the driver that particular bit of kit was designed for - all in the vicinity to be afraid, very afraid....
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I live in a very quiet street, where one of my neighbour's parents has one of those loud "Attention! Vehicle Reversing!" jobbies ... on a beat up old Escort. He still can't revers for toffee, and makes a complete dogs dinner every time. Well, it makes the rest of us smile, though I've also noticed that my neighbour also always nips back inside out of sight before his Dad fires up!
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