Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So what happens when you tell a Gen-Zer to parallel park...

and the care doesn't have a back up camera???



I saw a drivers ed car with a back up camera. Both instructed and driver were staring at the video screen.....

Simple, he just downloads an app or googles up a youtube.

Don’t knock the backup camera. Finally got one on my 2004 Duramax & it’s fabulous for king up trailer ball to hitch. Much better than by feel.

Yeah,
But what if you never learn to look over your shoulder?

I mean most of them can't cross a street without looking of up from their phones....

I never look over my shoulder, that's why trucks have mirrors.

Never look over the shoulder, you paid for the mirrors, use them. And a mirror is just an analog back up camera.

What's the difference between not looking up from a phone and never looking up from a newspaper like pre-internet days?

Im a gen x

I have parallel parked 2x in my life.

I will walk 2 miles before I parallel park ever again.

I'm X too - I parallel park probably once a month easy. But the nature of parking in our downtown drives that. I don't run into the need much anywhere else.

Try parallel parking an 18 wheeler- - - -I used to have to do that at some of the places I made deliveries.

I’m an X, too. You know why you use the mirrors? Because the trailer blocks the view from the camera………..

I’m X too. Parallel park all the time. Easy-peasy. The issue is getting back into traffic when someone leaves you about 3” of space.

You damn Genxer’s(had to make that word up) always have an answer for the problem. I don’t know how us boomers managed to raise you guys.

Are Gen Z kids old enough to drive?

Mine is

I was wrong. I thought there was a Gen Y between the Millenials and the Z kids.


Turns out us Millenials are the Gen Y.


Some Z kids are pretty old. Mine oldest is 15.

Hardly any parallel parking spots left around here.

Been there done that. Didn't buy the shirt.
Delivered 5 and dime freight from Maine to Wisconsin, to Texas.
Big cities, little Appalachian towns.

Our 16 year old daughter got her license a couple months ago.
The testing place is close, and they have a place made with delineators for
the parallel park test. We were practicing, she had it down in my Fusion (no camera)
"I wonder how hard it would be in Mom's van?"

"It's bigger Em, but everything is the same, just less room."

The next time her and her mom were out the called me, " Em wants to try it, come over I'm not any help for her."


When I showed up, the van was in the spot.
It was the second attempt, the first required a pull up, the second was perfect.


She tested a week later in the car.
Perfect, no pull-ups. The tester didn't even get out of the car.

It's a simple skill, easily taught be someone who understands it.


I taught her Mom the CDL maneuvers, including the 90 degree parallel park.
In a semi. She passed easily.
She also refuses to parallel a car, or learn how.


The biggest difficulty is saying screw the guy waiting,
once you get rattled it's over.


Backing in, out, and down alleys in the store delivery job got me used to saying
"Screw them, I gotta do this!"

Haven't had to parallel park in years.
Use mirrors when backing, cameras work great until they don't.
I use both, but mirrors first.

My oldest is 17

Hell I'm a boomer and still drive a 4 speed manual. Manual tranny is the best anti-theft device going since almost nobody in the last 2 generations, excepting those that grew up on farms and ranches, know how to work a clutch.