Why do women fail at parking?

[DreXeL]

So I was giving the Estima a blast of my jetwasher to get some of the winter crap off, when I notice a scrape on the side. It suddenly clicked, she had been in a multi-story car park yesterday

I asked her what had happened, and she says she doesn't even remember doing it

As it happens it was more of a 'rub' than a scrape and polished out easily enough.

Anyway, on to the main point of my post: Why are women seemingly incapable of parking and negotiating tight spaces without hitting other cars/objects/people? Why do they seemingly have zero spacial awareness? Do they pull them aside as children and lobotomise that part of the brain?

I realise this is a massive generalisation, but come on, you've got to admit that on the whole women fail at this.

 

[Simon]

Lack of spacial awareness, this is apparent in other activites than driving too!

 

[jaykay]

Oh so true.
Friend last night bumped into a car while parking. Only 3mph but still i would hate for some one to knock into my car at any speed.

 

[merlin]

No testicles = no skills.

It's practically written in the Bible.

 

[mjt]

No testicles = no skills.

It's practically written in the Bible.

shame it's not true then ;p

 

[Skeeter]

Woman do not have the same ability to proccess the area around them in 3 dimensions like men can. They have the ability to multi task, we have the ability to read maps and understand 3d space.

Still not an excuse for pranging my mota!

 

[Muffin`]

DRIVERS who can position their car in the middle of a parking space at a supermarket are sliding closer to extinction, conservationists have warned.

Yet another symptom of climate change? Or is he just an unspeakable ******* who deserves to die?


Research teams have recorded a sharp decline in numbers over the last decade, despite strenuous efforts to educate the public about how easy it is to just put your ****ing car in the middle of a parking space.

Dr Tom Logan, head of species protection at the WWF, said: "There is a series of white lines separated by spaces roughly the same width as a car, plus a little bit more. Let's think of that as the first Great Big ****ing Clue shall we?

"As we approach, we then have to ask ourselves: 'do I park on the white line, do I straddle the white line or do I get my huge, chocolate-covered face out of my fat, greedy, unwashed arse and just put the ****ing car in the middle of the ***ing space?'"

Conservationists have blamed the crisis on a combination of poaching, loss of habitat and an unbelievable ****ing selfishness by a bunch of total and complete ******** who deserve to die on a spike.

"There are now less than 50 people in the UK who are able to do this," said Dr Logan. "That's not just a tragedy for our planet, it's doing my ****ing head in every time I go to Homebase."

WWF warned that drivers who can park in the middle of a space will soon share the fate of people who knew not to park four feet from the ****ing kerb, extinct since 1993.

Dr Logan added: "A ****ing mountain gorilla could do this with its ****ing eyes shut, but for some reason the average British motorist seems to think every car park in the world was made just for them.

"Or maybe they've heard that if they park on the white line Graham-****ing- Norton is going to jump out from behind a bottle-bank and send them on holiday to Orlando.

"Anyway, the point is we need more money."

 

[The Big T]

No depth perception

 

[peterattheboro]

Lack of spacial awareness, this is apparent in other activites than driving too!

This is definatley true.

I work with mainly women and we have 4ft high false walls in the office.

When I walk up to most of them casually, they jump out of their skin. It's not as if i'm creepy creeperson.

This doesn't happen with the guys.

Maybe they are just really intimidated by me

 

[Zip]

Because its normally males that are trying to cram things into tight places.

Girls dont really get to do that

 

[SB118]

Lack of spacial awareness, ...

We have a winner, same reason they can't reverse in a straight line.

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

My housemate is legendarily bad at parking.

Listen to these Gems....

"I dont do reverse, it's too technical"

I then questioned what she would do if she needed to park in a supermarket. Her reply was golden

"I find two spaces together so i can drive through the first one, and then park in the second, then i never have to reverse"

I think my brain exploded at that point.


She does now have to reverse to park in her parking space at my house, and basically she does not park, i prefer to call it "abandoning" her vehicle. I could start a thread with her daily parking, it would entertain you lot for a few days!!

 

[peterattheboro]

My housemate is legendarily bad at parking.

Listen to these Gems....

"I dont do reverse, it's too technical"

I then questioned what she would do if she needed to park in a supermarket. Her reply was golden

"I find two spaces together so i can drive through the first one, and then park in the second, then i never have to reverse"

I think my brain exploded at that point.


She does now have to reverse to park in her parking space at my house, and basically she does not park, i prefer to call it "abandoning" here vehicle. I could start a thread with her daily parking, it would entertain you lot for a few days!!

Do it.

 

[bullit in head]

"I find two spaces together so i can drive through the first one, and then park in the second, then i never have to reverse"

my missus freely admits to that...but what you going to do...

once she dragged the back end of the drivers side down a bollard.... .when I saw it, she said she didnt do it/hear it and it couldn't be her.....until we were going though the maccy d's drive though and came out with it wont fit I cant get it though, and the penny dropped, she then admitted it.... dent is there to this day.....But to be fair we had only just got it and it is a big car (ford MK2 Galaxy)


bullit

 

[Dup]

Amandas doing well with the "SLAB" considering her first car was a Metro and her second my 206. Shes never bumped anything yet apart from running the 206 in to the back of something. Parking wise she's pretty good.

Her awareness isn't great but she compensates for it rather than breaking things.

 

[Minxy]

Women can't park. It's as simple as that. It is one of life's great mysteries, along with other great unsolved wonders such as why men can't put their dirty washing in a washing bin even if it is empty, why men can't do more than one thing at once and also why men think that women want to run round looking after their every need.

 

[Sone]

Women can't park. It's as simple as that. It is one of life's great mysteries, along with other great unsolved wonders such as why men can't put their dirty washing in a washing bin even if it is empty, why men can't do more than one thing at once and also why men think that women want to run round looking after their every need.

stay on topic love, and who let you out of the kitchen

 

[Durzel]

Lack of spacial awareness, this is apparent in other activites than driving too!

This.

Probably explains why they can't play pool for s*** either (well, mostly). Would love to be able to see what they see through their eyes, looking at a pool table must look like some kind of Escher painting.

(me hides)

 

[IAmATeaf]

Boredom is the reason surely, they try the once, fail, lose interest and just give up.

 

[33L]

my wife is learning to drive and i am dreading thaday when she says lets go out for a drive and i'm driving.

I am now bribing the driving instructor!