I love to drive! Driving is one of those freedoms that I thoroughly
enjoy even as the gas prices get higher and higher. Traffic used to
bother me but I've reached an age and an experience level to where it
doesn't bother me as much. I don't jump from lane to lane trying to
get ahead of people, I just want to get somewhere the easy easiest way
possible.
I love driving a pickup truck now . It's fun to be full-sized again!
When I park I tend to pull through parking spaces so that I don't have
to backup on my way out. That means I tend to park far away from the
door of whatever building I'm trying to get into. Which drives my
wife crazy at times.
Parking has not always been a fun experience for me. I remember one
time when the my wife and I were dating that we were going to
something in another town. It was at a college. We got there and
there was nowhere to park of course. We drove around and then we saw
somebody pulling out of a parking space and I rushed up there and cut
somebody off to get into the parking space. I felt guilty about it
and I thought I was going to end up in a fight but luckily I didn't.
I remember another time when I was younger I was in my first car at
the grocery store and rushed into to the store to buy whatever it was
I was trying to buy. I came rushing out because I was in a big hurry
to go and see my girlfriend (who became my wife eventually). I hopped
in my car and made sure my sunglasses were on right and that the
appropriate music was blaring from my speakers. I was in a parking
space with nobody in front of me. I looked around, put the car in
drive, pulled forward to go through and go straight out the other side
of the parking spaces. There was a huge thump and clunk from the
front end of the vehicle! I was like "what just happened" and I
realized there were curb things in the parking spaces to keep people
from doing what I was doing. But I was already over it and scraping
the bottom of my car that I was in. It was horrible! I thought I was
going to rip up my car's transmission and screw it up and then thump
thump over the next one on the other side for the other parking space
and just decided I had to keep going. After two more thump thump's I
was free and as I pulled away from the parking spaces I looked behind
me to see if I was trailing any mechanical stuff or any liquids.
Luckily I was not.
That was the worst parking experience that I've had in all of driving
career. Very embarrassing! Very nerve-racking because ever since I'm
always looking for those stupid curb things in between parking spaces.
Luckily they don't put those things out very often now.
Be careful parking out there. Dangerous!
