*sigh* I'm loosing my touch. (Warning: Hi-jacked by Em)

[sourland]

Frankly, I stink at parallel parking - if the space is big enough and I really take my time, I'm OK - yet I could drive a hundred miles in reverse with no problem. The Princess can not drive 20 ' in reverse, yet she can parallel park in a space that is smaller than her car. (Slight hyperbole) I don't get it!

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I was not a teenager that really WANTED to get my license. Doing that meant I'd have to drive.

When I moved here, Terry FORCED me to go renew my license. I didn't wanna.

Failed that one too....the eyesight part. I had to go get glasses before they'd give me my license.

 

[Wisher1000]

We have a yearly, 8 hour long class in defensive driving that I refer to as "Pursuit Parking." We use a closed course, cones and a stopwatch. Of course, it becomes a competition. There is parallel parking, slant parking, three point turns, tight figure eights, evasive maneuvers, hard breaking, tight curves at speed, and slaloms, all in a Ford Crown Vic! It comes in handy around the mall at holiday time. Seconds are added to your time for each cone you knock over. Drivers must complete the course in under 3:45 to pass the class. You get bragging rights if you don't break 2 minutes! I can parallel park and never drop below 25mph! (I see your hyperbole and raise you one

)

 

[Tanichca]

Tani failed. Stupid three point turn.

 

[sourland]

Hey, Tani, you are in good company - Em and me. Of course no one can/ever has matched Em's record of 7 fails. I actually backed over the curb on the 'K' turn.

 

[Bunnylady]

Oh, I'm sorry, Tani.

Is there something we can throw in the moat to make you feel better?

(BTW, my son took his test in a Ford Bronco II, which is so agile you'd swear it could catch its own tailpipe. The road he tested on was so wide, he had a hard time making it 3 points - he could have done a U-ie. Some people get an unfair advantage.

 

[Tanichca]

Oh, I'm sorry, Tani.

Is there something we can throw in the moat to make you feel better?

... No. But Ice cream would help.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

Hey, I failed 7 times before I got it. Once you get past that test, you don't have to take it again! (Thank goodness)

 

[sourland]

Em, I think the day is coming when I may have to take the 'test' again. Isn't there some point at which old codgers must retest? Frankly, there should be.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

If there is, I quit. I won't take that darn thing again!