12 Life Skills You Need to Call Yourself a Man

7. Parallel Parking, the Right Way

Just because you reside in a heavily populated metropolitan area doesn’t mean you don’t need skills as a true man.

Men fancy themselves as excellent drivers, and while that may be open for debate, there is nothing wrong with practicing to ensure you truly are a good driver. For those residing in big cities, parallel parking is a way of life along busy streets.

While auto manufacturers are coming out with cars that can parallel park themselves, do you really need another machine in your life doing everything for you?  If you can’t handle something as simple as parking your own car, perhaps you shouldn’t be driving in the first place.

Start by pulling past the space you want to park in, roughly two feet from the car in front of the space. Pull forward to your rear bumpers align and you can see the rear of the car you are next to through your driver’s side rear window.

Crank the steering wheel to the left, put the car in reverse and take your foot off the break to start swinging the backend into the space.

Once you have aligned the back of your driver’s seat with the rear bumper of the car in front of the space, begin turning the steering wheel in the opposite direction to start swinging the front end in. After this it will be time to straighten out the wheel and you should find yourself about six inches to one foot from the curb.

Pull forward if necessary to evenly space yourself between both cars, but otherwise you are good to go.