Austin's first parallel parking competition is happening from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at Canopy Austin.

Years ago, I took the pressure off my husband of planning my birthday festivities, and he has never once complained about that decision. I worked 17 years as a professional event planner — parties ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I can parallel park almost anywhere. Tight spots, busy streets, with people watching and waiting—it doesn't rattle me. And I've ...

Parallel parking looks intimidating for one reason: you are trying to place a large object into a space that feels too small, while other humans watch and pretend they have never struggled with ...

Watching people fail at parallel parking is part of the quintessential roadside cafe experience, especially if it’s in a city. They come, they try, they fail, and somebody else comes along and ...

Parallel parking is a skill—an art, even—that’s slowly becoming extinct in today’s drivers. More and more, our cities are designed in ways that parallel parking just isn’t necessary, and as a result, ...

Everyone has aspects of “adulting” that they struggle with. Some skills just come more naturally than others. One often-complained-about skill is parallel parking. Many people do not like to parallel ...

WASHINGTON — New D.C. drivers should know how to parallel park before taking their skills test. That's because D.C.'s Department of Motor Vehicles has reintroduced parallel parking to the test, after ...

Parallel parking has returned to the D.C. DMV’s driving skills test. The first D.C. road test to include parallel parking since 2009 was administered on May 18, the DMV announced in a newsletter ...

When I was a kid growing up in lower Manhattan, my father would always tell us, “The parking gods are on our side.” Circling the blocks around our apartment after running an errand, he never failed to ...

A little bit forward, a little bit back, pivot to the right, back to the left and forward again, repeat until you decide the parking spot is too small, and take another loop around the block looking ...