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Man parallel parks, feels the internet's wrath
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:35 pm
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When I was a kid growing up in lower Manhattan, my father would always tell us, “The parking gods are on our side.” Circling the blocks around our apartment after running an errand, he never failed to find a spot — a skill he has passed down to me. A friend once described my ability to parallel park in New York City as “sexy,” and I agree: It is sexy, like being able to handle a power tool. Which is why, a few weeks ago, when I managed to fit my car into the smallest spot I had ever attempted, I felt a sense of pride. So I posted a photo of my parked car on Twitter, where I have 25,000-plus followers, with the obviously hyperbolic caption “not to brag but i deserve a nobel prize for this.” Then I put my phone away.
Within a few hours, the post had accumulated dozens of quote tweets. One person told me I was an “objectively bad person” for my parking job. I thought that was funny. So I screenshotted that and posted it with another obviously hyperbolic caption: “i am being cancelled for being good at parallel parking.” That tweet, insanely, now has 153,100 likes and more than 4,800 retweets. According to Twitter’s analytics, about 10 million people have seen it, and about 4,000 of them decided to reply. Some called me a shitty human being or an ableist; others told me they would key my car or pop my tires. Several threatened to fight me. Some simply said I was lying — one person created an SAT-style geometry diagram to prove, based on the dimensions and angles seen in the photograph, that my parking job was mathematically impossible.
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Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:38 pm to Jim Rockford
Very obviously fake. The cars blocked him in
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:39 pm to Jim Rockford
That's a good example of only one reason I would never live in a city.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:39 pm to Jim Rockford
This is what happens when you incentivize an entire country to sit at home instead of going to work.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:39 pm to Jim Rockford
You have too much time on your hands. Quit playing on social media like a fricking kid.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:40 pm to Jim Rockford
I enjoy seeing a master at his craft, whatever that is.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:40 pm to Jim Rockford
Let’s see him parallel park this bawhemoth
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:42 pm to Jim Rockford
Unless I see it on video, I'll believe that person was blocked in.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:42 pm to Jim Rockford
That’s cool and all, but now try to get out with traffic…
This post was edited on 8/7/21 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:54 pm to Joshjrn
I got into an almost impossibly tight parallel park once. Not sure it was that close but pretty damn tight.
Felt amazing. Lost that skill once I left the Warehouse District.
Felt amazing. Lost that skill once I left the Warehouse District.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 8:56 pm to Jim Rockford
I used to have a Turkish friend that would nudge the cars on either side to fit into a spot. There were times we got out of his car with one of his bumpers still touching the car in front or behind it.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:39 pm to Jim Rockford
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pop my tires
Dems think sticking that spare pen in a tire is all it takes
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:42 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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Felt amazing. Lost that skill once I left the Warehouse District
Yep. I grew up in midcity Nola so there was only parallel parking - but I think I lost that skill living in BR
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:44 pm to Jim Rockford
If you have a Twitter account, you should be prevented from voting.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:46 pm to HoboDickCheese
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Let’s see him parallel park this bawhemoth
I see you, too, listen to K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:48 pm to HoboDickCheese
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Money says that belongs to a welder on a pipeline.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:52 pm to Upperdecker
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Very obviously fake.
Posted on 8/7/21 at 9:55 pm to Jim Rockford
Guy I knew in college came outside and saw a parking job like that, right behind his car. He decided he needed to get something out of his trunk, but with literally only one inch behind him, that meant he had to walk all over the other guy's hood to access his trunk.
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