Parallel Parking: Difference between revisions

 

[[Parking Problems|Less skilled drivers will usually bump into the cars in front of and/or behind the spot they're either entering or leaving]].

 

 

* A ''[[Tosh 0]]'' bit had various stereotypical poor drivers ([[Asian Drivers|Asian woman]], 15-year-old girl with her learner's permit, etc) try to parallel park a massive Hummer. The only one who succeeded was the girl.

* Reese's driving test in ''[[Malcolm in The Middle]]'' frustrates him to the point that it turns into a low-speed police chase, which continues for hours until he's nearly out of gas, at which point he leads the [[Lemming Cops]] round the entire test run, acing every obstacle and finishing with an inch-perfect parallel park. [[Mundane Made Awesome|What do you mean it's not awesome?]]

* On ''[[Seinfeld]]'', George actually claims to be really good at parallel parking, he just didn't count on another guy trying to drive into the space front first while he was backing up. [[Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate|A massive, all-night argument begins between the two drivers over whether front-first parallel parking is acceptable in the civilized world.]]

* One episode of ''[[Top Gear]]'' involved James May and Jeremy Clarkson driving huge classic cars around London to showcase how fantastic (read: impractical) these cars are in the modern day. One of the producer's challenges involved parallel parking in downtown London, which, as it turns out, was impossible for the cars to do as they are, in fact, longer than the parking spaces themselves.