On Sunday evening I took the family out for a dinner at a hotel near town. I have a shock when I turned in to the car park. It was such a small parking lot! I have to say; parking there is really quite a challenge. And I was really lucky to find the most available parking lot, only it turned to be a parallel parking lot!
Okay, I admit I never was good at parallel parking, what more to parallel park at such a small congested place!
However, I have to say, I simply love the Forester! It was so easy and smooth to maneuver. I thought I would have a struggle there to park, but I smoothly parked into the lot, in a single try!
Come to think of it, I should have gotten my wife to video that parking … ha ha…
After dinner, we proceeded to a shopping mall at Orchard. And this time I came to this “merry go round” car park. You know those car parks where you have to turn around a few storeys up before you reach the parking lots? And what a narrow path!
If there were no cars behind me, I would have back out from the car park! No way I am going to take that kind of risk! Unfortunately I have a few already waiting behind me.
I actually prayed softly, no joke, before I made the climb up. With my usual 1.6L sedan I would be alternating my foot on the accelerator and the brakes. However the Forester made its way up steadily, with me just gently applying pressure on the brakes.
I promised myself, if i am not going to drive a Forester again, i am not going to park there anymore!
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