My driving skill instructions 😉

[erash]

This is me! 😊

[Jesmcd2 CommunityAmbassador]

Hahaha I like that ldea!!

J 🌠

[Morllyn]

😂🚗

[WAshingtongirl]

Oh, goodness, parallel park? 😱 Ask HeidiK . She witnessed my response to having to parallel park. 😂 I'd rather park farther away and walk the extra distance than squeeze in between two cars. My depth perception and distance vision aren't what they used to be! 😉💕

[HeidiK in reply to WAshingtongirl]

To be fair, you did really well especially taking into consideration you were driving a right hand sided car and on the wrong side of the road from what you're used to 😀

[WAshingtongirl in reply to HeidiK]

Ah, thank you, HeidiK ! We all need friends to encourage us (and make excuses for us 😉) when we need it. You were the calm in the storm for me that morning. 💞You made it all worth it.

[greaterexp]

Perfect!

[Fancy1959]

Erash, it's Fancy1959. As a supervisor for Fayette County transportation department I had to be able to not only parallel park a school bus but then, train others, new drivers as a matter of fact how to parallel park a school bus. Since then, parallel parking a car doesn't seem like much of a challenge at all anymore. Haha. At least one thing came out of that job!

[erash in reply to Fancy1959]

Fancy1959 you r my hero! I've never been a good driver even when I had to drive Army jeeps, cracker box ambulances and believe it or not, 2 1/2 ton trucks 🙀

[jennie62 in reply to Fancy1959]

You are the Goddess of Parallel Parking! I was able to teach my daughter the K turn and backing in to a parking spot, but PARALLEL PARKING? I shudder with fear just thinking about the few times I tried it, but teaching it-aaaaaaaaaah! You are a goddess!

[Fancy1959 in reply to jennie62]

Oh ladies not a goddess by any stretch of the imagination. It is simply the fact that practice makes perfect. I even took the time make up step by step written and illustrated instructions so my trainees could have a handout to take home to look at as well as going over my verbal instructions in their heads. I had the written and the Illustrated instructions in hand going to my manager to show her the project I had done. I had time on my hands and nothing else to do so I decided to be productive when she waylaid me and ask me what I've been doing. Believe it or not I got in trouble for making up the worksheets to help my trainees because I have not got them pre-approved to start with. Where I used to work was absolutely the worst management I had ever worked under. Then of course there was one of the other 5 supervisor I work with who smirked at me as I came back in. So I knew very quickly who had gone to my manager and got me into the hot water that I was in. Is there any wonder why my MS got so much worse while I worked as the Section Supervisor position for Fayette County Schools. I had to get out before my MS consumed me to the stress my pitiful manager put me under! 😠😲😞

[erash in reply to Fancy1959]

Fancy1959 i would say I'm so glad to be out of that workplace beauracracy and politics but I'm amazed to find it among some of the places I volunteer now too!

I guess the difference is I have more freedom to ignore it or just leave.

I suppose people that do things like that are very unhappy people. Feel sorry for them perhaps more than angry.

But you are still my parking hero! 😊

[HeidiK in reply to Fancy1959]

I used to drive Schoolbuses and then went onto driving Transit Buses when we lived in Canada.

I was able to keep my Schoolbus at home and had to reverse it onto the driveway off a narrow road. I remember when I was training and told to weave around traffic cones in reverse I thought there's no way I'm going to be able to do it but it was surprisingly easy.

Loved driving buses.

[erash in reply to HeidiK]

HeidiK wow! 👍

[ssdw1958]

I love your reply. I could do a parallel parking before even with a truck but now one thing I can't even get into a truck and I guess I won't go to that appointment LOL

[melack01]

Every time I drive I go through a checklist in my head:

1. Is my peripheral vision good enough today (sometimes it feels like the other lane is headed right for me.

2. Can I remember the way I'm going (I go through it in my head turn by turn)

3. Do I remember how to drive (honestly sometimes I'm not sure until I'm behind the wheel. So far I've always remembered.

4. Is it something I need to do or can I wait until my husband can drive me.

[erash]

melack01 i can relate. My world has shrunken because of my self distrust driving too far, to new locations and not at night! 😁