Are you a Fancy Parker?

[Buddy J]

http://fancyparking.com/index.html

Well? Are you? I am.

[Zanthian]

I am and it is funny at work. There is a line of cars that pull in at work and then I am the only vehicle pointing the oposite direction.

[GHoosdum]

I am boring. And so is my car. I just park the damn thing. Not backwards, or away from all the other cars so they don't ding my doors, or even away from the cart corral. There is nothing fancy or nancy about the way I park.

Where can I find images of the Moon and planets online?

[primesuspect]

I do the "drive thru" method :D , so YES

[madmat]

I am when I can...

[QCH]

Yep.. fancy!!! some grade schools mandate that parents "fancy Park" to help reduce the backing over of kids. :D

[muddocktor]

Definitely a fancy parker, especially when parking to go out offshore. That way when I get in I can just haul ass full speed ahead and also if you come back in to a dead battery, you are all set up to get jumped off. :D

[Lincoln]

That was a really well-designed site. I'm impressed for it just being a humor site.

[Nightwolf]

I have a 50' truck...not really, but its long..I have to fancy park.

[entropy]

Only a drive-through. To be quite honest, I hate the normal "fancy parkers." Once they get good at it, they get cocky. I was driving through the lot to find a spot for pep one night, and there was a van ahead of me. Well, he pulled up and to the right, so I figured he'd be parking there (we were, after all, at the edge of the mass of cars). He did pull up mostly into the spot before backing out. So I said, "Hey, here's a spot on the left, looks good to me." I was halfway in when he proceeded to whip into reverse (mind you, he hadn't even put it in reverse before, so I had no warning, really) and slam back at me. Didn't even look back, not ONCE. I laid on the horn as soon as I saw it, but it was too late. Put a nice dent in the panel, scratched it up a fair bit.

He then proceeded to get out of his (really crappy) van and scream at me, "WHAT THE HELL? DIDN'T YOU SEE ME COMING? WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!"

"No, actually, you sure as hell looked like you were parking in that spot up there. You didn't even start backing up right away."

*realizes I'm more right than not and walks back to his car*

[RWB]

Fancy... I pull THROUGH when I can. But here at home in the apartment parking lot I just pull in conventionally.

[Buddy J]

I'm a pull through kind of guy. Not big on the long reverse turn, although it happens on occasion. I gotta work on what they call "spin the bottle." That's a new goal of mine.

[bikerboy]

even though my car is a peice of junk and not worth more than $200. i still dont want any scratches or dings in it. unless i have someone with me i park way far away from any one. especially cart returns.

bikerboy

[Nightwolf]

especially cart returns.
;D

[Gargoyle]

My awesomely short wheelbase means backing out of parking spaces it easy, so I don't worry about fancypants parking. Or I could just drive over the car in front of me. Stupid legal liability...

[mcwc]

I do the drive-thru whenever I can. Though, I think they are missing one technique, the "45 degree", which I use to back into the garage or when I can't use the drive-thru in parking lots.

[dragonV8]

I'm with Mudd on this one. Especially in restrictive area's and batteries having a mind of their own, never know when it dies on you.

[gtghm]

I'm a fancy parker too, but not in store parking lots, generaly its killed or be killed when trying to get a spot so I usually do a broad slide at full speed under heavy breaking at the first empty space I see...

Damn motorcycle only stalls... LOL

"g"

[Thrax]

I try to do the drive-thru whenever possible.

[RADA]

I take it a step futher, I look for places where I can put the passenger's side of my car close as possible to the curb... So I can get as much room on the driver's side as possible....

Or I park as far away as possible...


My Baby deserves the extra effort needed to park her safely...

[Nomad]

I park away from everyone else typically, sometimes at school I'll pull through if I can. The lot is too tight to back up park.

[madmat]

Funny thing is, when I first read this thread title I pictured some old gal lookin' like Minnie Pearl down to the tag hangin' off'n her hat.

To say I was surprised at the content is a mild understatement..

[GHoosdum]

I take it a step futher, I look for places where I can put the passenger's side of my car close as possible to the curb... So I can get as much room on the driver's side as possible....

Or I park as far away as possible...


My Baby deserves the extra effort needed to park her safely...

Yes, RADA, your ride certainly does deserve etra courtesy. I'd be a fancy parker too if I had a car like yours. :thumbsup:

[danball1976]

I'll fancy park if I have the opportunity to do so.

[Mt_Goat]

I used to be known as a real smooth hand Luke in the Fancy Parking days. I always liked reclining bucket seats. Never cared for back of Mustangs and Camaros. Ooops wrong parking. ;)

Back on subject.
I have always been a very picky fancy parker.

[airbornflght]

I usually do the crazy straw where there is room, although my tires are needing rotated as a result of excess spinages...but seriously,

I fancy park at school all the time, along with my friends, there are very few people at school that can manage to park normally god forbid back up and park. some even screw up the drive thru, i kid you not.

[MrBill]

Drive-thru for me. It's not easy getting a full-size, ext. cab, long bed truck in and out of tight parking spaces.