How Difficult is it to Park a Car?

*DISCLAIMER*
This post may be offensive to women, 4x4 drivers and stupid people.






For most of us, when you just turn 17 there's only one thing you want to do, learn to drive. The prosepects of freedom and independence that owning a car brings is too much to resist for some and the quest begins to get a shiny pink card which says that you can be trusted to drive a 2 ton block of steel at 70mph.

Whilst learning to do that, you are taught a plethora of methods of how to park the thing. Reverse, around the corner, in a bay, at the side of the street - the whole caboodle.
So why is that people forget these things the minute they change their underpants?

Everywhere you go, white van man will be blocking Britain's bus lanes with his hazard lights on, Buses will stop wherever the hell they like and Mini-cabs stick out at jaunty angles. But that's just the start of it.

Shopping centre car parks tend to act as a magnet for these idiots, esspecially during the daytime. The local ASDA seems to attract these particular feckwits more than most. It is not THAT difficult to park a car between two white lines, is it? I can't believe how many people have such little driving ability that they need to merit taking two, or in one case, three spaces. Invariably, these were all 4x4's, which we all know, are now only driven by women who need an armoured vehicle to take their kiddies to school, cub scouts, flute lessons or 'Toys R Us'.

Not only that, but there's those ignorant twats that decide that they have a right to park in disabled bays. Thankfully, ASDA have started issuing fines for these idiots. We also have a company doing the same where I work, although we don't call them parking fines, we prefer to refer to them as "taxes for the twats". Perhaps though, whilst these people are not physically disabled, perhaps they are handicapped mentally as I can't think of another explaination for wanting to argue that you shouldn't be fined for parking in a disabled bay and not displaying a disabled badge, when you parked in a disabled bay and didn't display a disabled badge.

Driving in supermarket carparks isn't exactly of a high standard anyway, probably because as soon as people drive through the front gate, their mind is mesmorised by the prosepect of all the 'shiny' things that they could buy.

Me thinks that those driving examiners do have a futile task, making the British public less stupid once they get into a car.