On the igottadrive.com drivers ed web site there is a recent article about the differences between men and women drivers when parking a car. It was a little hard to take that women are better at parking than men, but I suppose the facts are the facts. If you get a chance check out "Battle Of The Sexes Car Parking" article when you get a chance.
My wife is certainly better at finding the closer parking space than I am - by a mile! So I asked my wife why this might be and she had an interesting insight - she was often shopping and had several items to carry back to the car, making proximity important. My idea of shopping is to get the one item that I came to purchase at the store and leave as soon as possible. In my case, the distance I have to walk to the parked car is not nearly as important.
However, one area that I find interesting is that I notice more women than men leave the car parked with the wheels off-canter. Many a time I have gotten into my wife's car, start to backup, and suddenly have to grab the wheel to straighten it out. Well, at least there's one area that we can do well at...
Its always fun to watch people and this provides another opportunity to understand human nature. Now I can find a slight bit of pleasure when driving around the parking lot and taking my own poll.
