Neutral

See how close this car is to the car in front of it? They're completely touching. How'd this happen? Well I'd love to tell you. A co-worker and I were waiting outside a restaurant the other day when we saw a guy pull up a few cars away and double park. Double parking is no big whoop here. People do it all the time. But the driver gets out of his van and walks down to just past where we are standing and pushes the car in front of us (the one on the right in the foto) a few feet forward until it just touches the bumper of the car in front of it. Just pushed it. Casually. As if it were something he does all the time. He then walked down to the next car (the car on the left) and pushed it until it touched the bumper of the previous car. He then did the same for the next car down. So three cars this guy has been able to just push along the curb. Then he gets to the fourth car, a taxi. He pushes it backward about 2 feet gets in his van and parks his van in the open space he has now created by pushing cars up and down the curb.

Turns out that out of courtesy, the drivers here park their cars in neutral just in case someone needs to push it to create a parking spot. Isn't that awful nice of them? I've decided that it would be awful nice of me to find a car parked alongside a curb with no other cars in front of it for a few blocks and just relocate a car. The thought of it just cracks me up. A total Dude, where's my car? kind of thing. Of course I'd never do it, but it makes me giggle to think about it.

Ciao!