Car Park with a view.

Our car was less than an inch away from that sea wall, that got its rear parking sensor alarm going crazy. Looking at the marks on the wall, some drivers have clearly got way closer. It happens to us all. Years back and I was learning to drive. At the end of my final lesson immediately before my test, I parked up outside the testing centre. Not strictly true. Actually I had a good go at reversing into the testing centre. Gave its front wall a good whack but thankfully, the test had not officially started so I got away with that one.

Or the time I reversed into my parents house drive and hit a tree, that they didn’t have. Bizarrely that very day, my parent’s next door neighbour found strange car marks on his prized front garden tree.

Or the time I reversed into my tent while I was solo camping in Scotland once.

Or the time I reversed a work’s Mercedes Van into the unopened work’s roller shutters. Mercedes Van 1 Roller Shutters 0.

I’m not good at reversing clearly. Actually I’m quite good at reversing, not so good at avoiding things. Hence why when I buy a car about the first thing I look for is ….. does it have reversing sensors. Now I can just about park near sea walls without damage. If only other life problems could be solved that easily, but here’s the thing. That reversing problem hasn’t gone away, turn the sensor off and ….. What I should really do is to learn to drive properly…..

50 thoughts on “Car Park”

  1. Dude!!!
    I think I’ve reversed into things twice. Once was a very short pole that wasn’t visible. The other was a car, when I was pissed off and not paying attention. The driver of the other car was surprisingly cool about it.

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      1. It was amusing cause I was taking strangers home from a bar. The guy still with me thought I was gonna freak but I just said, “oh, well” and went on with life.

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  2. Let’s talk about my recurring dream where I’m driving out of control in a curvy, hilly place somewhere …. in reverse! And I wake up before something happens, every single time. Use your sensors; they’re loads better than common sense! Great post.

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  4. Sandsend? Maybe not. I really can’t compete because I’m a non-driver, having gone full pelt into a young tree when I was first learning to drive. I never got better! My husband has always done the competent stuff like that, but these days he’s over anxious about his parallel parking. Gets us around though, thank the Lord!

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  9. I do not like backing. I can, sort of, but hate doing it, especially if there are witnesses. My son on the other hand could put a vehicle of any sort in any spot in reverse. BUT, he does it so often as part of his job so he has plenty of practice.

    I think I have frightened the sensors in my vehicle as they are constantly going off from the moment I put the vehicle in motion.

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  10. Doesn’t this happen to all of us at least once? I had this reversing sensors in my former car. Yet I pulled back and was suddenly stopped by the car in my neighbors parking lot. I have not noticed that there was a car standing, neither did I pay attention to the beeping sound since the aircondition was fully working and the music playing loudly… Since I had a Dodge Durango, my car showed no signs of an accident… but you should have seen that old Toyota I hit…

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  12. I get you, Gary! I don’t know how I ever drove before the time of cars equipped with sensors all around and reversing cameras. Where once the beeps used to drive me mad, at 52 now, they’re such a comfort!!

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  13. Confession: Oh the times I reversed my sister’s white mark 10 jag into her driveway after a little spin while she was out, but only once did I slightly touch the dark green gate post (after all I was only 14 and so it was obviously blamed on her then boyfriend).

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  14. I intentionally avoid reverse parking whenever I can for the same reasons and rely way too much on the sensors too!

    But the views of your daytrip look to be worth the trouble!

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  17. I have backed into walls a couple of times. I guess it would be more correct to say I rolled into them. No damage. Funny thing, when I was taking driving lessons the instructor had me reverse on my second day out. He proceeded to tell me that I drove better backwards than forwards and that I would have to drive backwards everywhere I went! Fortunately I learned during that time and by the time I did my test, I got my license first try.

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