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Can do it fine, both sides of street (one way streets in downtown Denver).
Don't like it because many people don't do it very well and increases the possibility of damage to my car. I've seen plenty of cars hit from inept drivers who aren't very adept at judging distances from the wheel.
Live in NYC so have no choice, and yes can do PP in my sleep.
Have never understood what freaks so many out about parallel parking. It is just a simple set of logical maneuvers the basics most of us know from riding bikes. That is the direction of rear wheels in relation to that of front.
It kills me watching someone trying to park a Toyota Corolla in a spot big enough for the Lusitania, and they still cannot do it without tons of forward, backward, forward, backward, pull out, start again.....
I try to do it at least once a week, there is parallel parking in front of our small town gym. So it's a decent practice area, level road, I can put the 'roc in there pretty professionally.
Like any other psycho-motor skill, you get better at it if you practice, if you avoid it, you get worse. As the man said, "if you ain't gettin' better, you're gettin' worse".
I am on a bus tour to Booth Bay, Maine and I was sitting downtown watching people. An elderly man and wife attempted to parallel park across the street. It was a tight spot and I would not have attempted it. He first clipped the rear fender of the car in front. Not discourage, he started over, alittle further out and missed the car in front this time, but backed into the rear car and then got straight. By now one owner had shown up and the law was called.
I know how to parallel park and I can do it, but I try to avoid it. I'm not knocking elderly drivers ,I'm 80 years old, but some folks just don't know how to drive.
Parallel park like a champ! It amazes people that ride with me that I can do this in parking spots on either side of the car.
I had a temp job in the 80's driving limo's during a phone company strike. The first time I drove the stretch limo, it was an airport job. The only parking space I could get at Newark Airport was a parallel parking spot at Terminal A. Nailed it!!!
Never intimidated by parallel parking in the least.
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