JB's Blog » fuchsia http://blade.lansmash.com /au/SysAdmin Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:14:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Parking in Paris http://blade.lansmash.com/2009/04/19/parking-in-paris/ http://blade.lansmash.com/2009/04/19/parking-in-paris/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:56:27 +0000 Blade http://blade.lansmash.com/2009/04/19/parking-in-paris/ Drinking last night I was reflecting with Cara on how tight the car spaces are here in Paris.

Parking spaces are understandably quite tight, and there whilst we were having a quite beer at 1AM in the morning a small grey Renault showed up and started parking. Thing this, there was less then 30-40cm spare space aside of the length of the Renault.

So how do you park with only 30cm of space to play? Simple. You just keep going backwards until you feel a bump.

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This Renault driver had a cunning tactic of reversing with feathering the brakes until he felt a bang, then he’d do the same going forward. He bumped the car in front of him and rear around a dozen times until he was happy.

The really funny part is about 30 minutes after the Renault driver walked off the car in front of him drove away… only to be replaced by a BMW 323 who promptly backed up and jammed the Renault. The BMW driver didn’t even bother to creep forward, instead jumping out of his car with the Renault’s suspension still groaning from being smashed from the front.

Yup I reckon Scooters are the way to travel here.

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