It is a well-known fact that women are terrible at parking cars. Obviously, this is a huge generalisation, but like the so-called "old wives' tale" about wet and windy weather sending children round the bend (even recognised by teaching unions and mentioned in their literature when I was training!), there is enough truth in it to cause insurance companies to offer lower-cost insurance to women. Female drivers are more likely to have low-cost bumps and scrapes when parking, whereas men tend to go in for the higher-speed collisions.
I'm not brilliant at parking. I'm convinced that it is something genetic - women's brains are just wired up differently. We're less spatially aware than men. We are, however, much better at everything else...
Each morning, I walk through a car park (belonging to another organisation.) At the time I walk past, there are no cars parked yet. On two occasions this week, a car has actually driven in, and parked up. Each time something very close to the following scenario actually happened...
Yes, it was a woman driver. Yes, she actually got out to check the lines, and got back in again... She did succeed in parking eventually...
Absolutely brilliant !!! Extremely funny and so, so true, of course. But most people haven't got the gumption to say it. Well done, Mac. Now, stand by for the torrent of politically-correct responses from "people who are professionally aware of these situations and can, categorically, disavow your pernicious and incorrect assertions". That means you're correct, Mac. And, of course, I agree with you that, in ALL OTHER THINGS, women are far, far superior to hopeless, inferior, paltry men. Cor !!!
ReplyDeleteThis makes me cringe! I have just passed my test and I cannot park to save my life. I nudged a van the other day as I attempted a parallel park, which would not have been a problem had the extremely grumpy owner of the van not been in it at the time...I keep telling myself I'll just get the hang of it over time and stop dreading getting into a car, thinking about having to park at the other end :-)
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