I was sitting in the car waiting for A and a car pulled into the space behind me, which was kind of tight. I held my breath, waiting for the bump. There was no bump.
Someone else left in front of me, and another car pulled up and began to back slowly toward me. It parked within a couple of inches of my bumper, but didn't touch my car.
Come to think of it, since I arrived in California a year ago, I haven't seen a single car bump another car while parking,
After so many years in Paris, this still surprises and pleases me.
I will never forget the first time I saw that happen in France. The guy backed in pushing the car behind him pretty far to make room and then did the same to the car in front of him. He kept doing this until he managed to park in what I would have considered a more than tight spot.
Posted by: Pumpkin | 17 April 2008 at 18:50
Several years ago, I was walking to my office in Pacific Heights in San Francisco one warm, spring day. As I passed by a shop with a woman in front gesticulating at the cars that had boxed her in with less than an inch at front AND back, I saw one of the offenders was a police car. She was busily calling them on her mobile, and the police dept. was asking how close the police care was to hers. She said, "well, let me put it this way: if my car was a girl car and his car was a boy car, my car would be pregnant"!
Posted by: jadie | 20 April 2008 at 05:59
In Paris that would be considered a good parking job!
Posted by: Sedulia | 20 April 2008 at 19:32