Picture the scene: my brother and I on our way up to the local McDonalds being driven by my lovely Mummy. We get to the turn in for the drive-through and a red Peugeot is blocking the road. Realising we’re trying to pull in behind her, she pulls forward and goes through the drive-through, stopping and starting every yard but eventually she completes her transaction, and pulls off into a parking bay.
Note that the car is at a 45 degree angle to the parking bay marking. Now that’s some nice parking right there.
(Photo courtesy of my mum’s dodgy camera phone.)
14 Mar at 11:21 am
Don’t normally post on sites and stuff :P but she got lawloskate owned! :).
14 Mar at 11:24 am
I wonder how she does when there’s actually cars next to her. :S
14 Mar at 11:26 am
That parking’s even worse than mine! Oh wow! (and ftr it’s peugeot, not peugout)
14 Mar at 12:11 pm
Don’t you just love it when that happens? I do! Especially when they take up two spaces! -_-
14 Mar at 12:16 pm
My aunt’s parking is worse, she just got her license (“you’re not too old, you know”) and she just can’t U-turn xD
14 Mar at 12:20 pm
What Hannah said. I remember I went to Miri and that happened. I cussed and swore each time I went past that car. grrr.
14 Mar at 12:52 pm
Wow. That’s pretty sad. I wonder if she normally sucks that much at driving. (PS. Parking bay? Do most Brits call them that? We usually call them parking places.)
14 Mar at 1:43 pm
@Aimee: parking bay/parking space, usually.
14 Mar at 1:59 pm
Well, I could laugh, but I can’t drive at all. :P And when we go on bumper cars/ go-karts, etc. I am AWFUL at steering. So, I would probably park the same way. Especially, if I was starving (which, obviously, I would be if I was at McDonalds…).
14 Mar at 2:16 pm
It’s just like the numbnut boy racer who lives near by. He thinks it’s so uber coolies and hardcore to park his monstrosity of a car in two bays. Not just bad parking, he literally parks over the two horizontally. I hate my area. I almost got ran over by some twat coming out of that McDonalds drive-through once. He must have thought it was amusing because he shouted something and laughed. I swear most people need to retake their driving tests.
14 Mar at 3:27 pm
That’s not too bad…you’ve seen me drop the Astra with each wheel in a different space! Stuart has seen me park with only 3 wheels on the ground too. I long ago reached the conclusion: You want my car moved, YOU move it.
14 Mar at 4:21 pm
Sometimes, just sometimes, when I hear of things like this I believe my father when he goes on a “women drivers” rant. :P
14 Mar at 4:24 pm
Further affirmation that women can’t drive. Although the lucky motorist that nearly killed me today was a greasy man with a cheap looking sporty car. Note to self: install gun turret on car.
14 Mar at 5:12 pm
You should have slapped on one of these: http://www.iparklikeanidiot.com/ :D
14 Mar at 5:19 pm
When I look out the window from my group therapy, I’m guaranteed to see people parked behind the line of cars. Hard to explain, so I made a lovely little graphic. http://tinyurl.com/2e68qn (it’s on image shack but, of course, the URL is too long)
14 Mar at 5:46 pm
And I thought we Americans were bad parkers.
14 Mar at 5:47 pm
That’s not that bad; I’ve seen far worse (although I can’t talk since I’m still learning how to drive). At least she isn’t straddling two parking spaces…
14 Mar at 5:50 pm
I’ve parked there before and I’m failing to decipher how she managed to park *that* diagonally. Maybe she was planning on straightening her car at the KFC car park :D. Despite what I say that is parking at it’s best :P.
14 Mar at 6:49 pm
youparklikeanasshole.com
14 Mar at 6:50 pm
Grr, it cut off my comment. Anyway, I was saying you must submit that picture to that site wot I wroted above innit.
14 Mar at 7:55 pm
Gahhh I hope I don’t park like that when I take my driving lessons, I’m only seventeen on August so I’ve got a long wait till I can start practising how to drive. Have you been on this website? http://www.addictinggames.com/parkmycar.html
14 Mar at 8:02 pm
Yes it often amuses me when people are having driving issues. Happens often in the city I live in currently. It’s a college town and I had heard rumors that college kids suck at driving, but I didn’t believe it until one rear ended me in a parking lot. Yay.
14 Mar at 8:56 pm
Oi! I park like that! :P
14 Mar at 8:58 pm
At least she’s pretty much between the lines…
14 Mar at 9:22 pm
Unfortunately, it’s no better on this side of the pond.
15 Mar at 1:58 am
Wow, I never seen anyone park like that before. :O The comments about cars taking up two parking spaces made me laugh a little. I mean, I can understand it if you’re over the line a little, but how do you accidentally take up two spaces? Especially when your vehicle is right smack dab in the middle of said spaces? (Although my mom tells me it’s because they don’t want other cars scratching their paint, so they make sure there’s ample space between them and the next car. …)
15 Mar at 3:32 am
I wonder how badly damaged her carport/garage/whatever is at home.
15 Mar at 4:28 am
She could have at least *tried* to straighten, I fail at parking but at least I fix it! Even if I am only staying somewhere briefly. Sadly I have seen worse, such as once at the apartment complex I live at I noticed outside my window someone parked very badly … of course I had to take a photo! http://tinyurl.com/ytsgy4 they weren’t even close. Another time while leaving work I noticed two ladies confused as to how they should back out of their parking space, because some moron parked so badly next to them that the back side of their car was blocking there’s from pulling out.
15 Mar at 9:23 am
The worst are those who would park right in the middle of two lots. I used too have neighbours who did that. :(
15 Mar at 11:24 am
Although I freely admit, having never been taught to parallel park due to my having taken my test hundreds of years ago long before that was added to the driving test (I tend to look for longer spaces in that case) I think that my forward and reverse parking is excellent. If I park crookedly I always correct it before leaving the car. This woman’s driving and parking were appalling and I agree with Jem wholeheartedly but I have to admit, in general the worst parkers are men not women, but you can see why women drivers get a bad name with examples like that lol.
15 Mar at 10:59 pm
Ugh, double parkers… Multiply that by, oh, about three hundred cars, and add blatant ignorance of where the parking space lines even are, and you get my school’s parking lot whenever it snows. Even worse, it’s not small cars either, some doucheface with an F350 doubleparks into my own spot nearly every day, and even though my car (a Focus) is small, that sucker is ridiculous. I swear, drivers get worse and worse every day… Nice to see it’s not just us Americans that can’t drive though. :P