Before TL,
another car blocking the view of oncoming cars when trying to back out?

They switched seats for some reason.

Sanae wanted to drive but can't back out of the parking space?

Edit: Nailed it. lol

I goofed a bit on the background, but this was a parallelogram-shaped parking area, where you could only go in at an angle, so you had shove all the way in. Had it been a normal, rectangular parking space, we could've backed into it.

Anyway, today begins a new chapter. It's about my trip back home last month. Before I forget! :-)

Reader-added tags include "Prospects are grim, Sanae-san", "You're a paper driver, Sanae-san" (i.e., someone with a license who can't really drive), and "When backing out, you go straight until you bump all the way in, right?"

The survey is open to alternative suggestions:

Which way do you think she should turn the wheel?
• Turn it right
• Turn it left
• Turn it up
• Turn it down
• Turn off the engine

My sympathies. I have to try turning the wheel slightly to see which way the car moves in reverse every single time. Add in overestimating dimensions, and I usually have a pretty hard time parking in such spaces. I'm much more at home on the road where the only thing I need to keep track is speed, relative to other vehicles.

Even the car is nervous about this. Hang on there Kogasa! No, literally hang on. This ride might get interesting.

ThunderBird said:

My sympathies. I have to try turning the wheel slightly to see which way the car moves in reverse every single time. Add in overestimating dimensions, and I usually have a pretty hard time parking in such spaces. I'm much more at home on the road where the only thing I need to keep track is speed, relative to other vehicles.

The hardest thing I learned driving was doing it in reverse. Since I rarely had to do it there were quite a few times I couldn't remember I had to turn the opposite of the direction I wanted to turn.

I learned to drive properly (on the road, even) before I managed to get my driver's license. Which was about half a year ago. Thankfully, it's a lot more intuitive when your co-pilot/instructor is not screaming at the top of her lungs telling you to hit the brakes...

For the poll, you have to turn the wheel up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b(rake), a(ccelerate), select (gear), start (the engine).

Which way do you think she should turn the wheel?

She should turn it up up down down left right left right B A START

AdventZero said:

For the poll, you have to turn the wheel up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b(rake), a(ccelerate), select (gear), start (the engine).

You win the thread

Well, I don't have much room to say anything, since I don't know the first thing about driving properly. I guess such spaces can be a bit of a pain. It's okay, Sanae-san, no one's perfect.

For the poll, turn off the engine.

No! Parking! My mortal enemy!