"OohOOH--look! There's a perfect spot!! Park there...
...right there in the middle of the road! I'll be right back..."
Someone actually parked their car like this.
Creative parking is definitely a way of life here, but even by Neapolitan standards, this carefree driver was sashaying into jackass teritory. The guy who double-parked in front of the handicap spot so he could run upstairs and slap his mamma even said so.
And that's bad.
posted by Tracie P. at 5/08/2006 08:50:00 AM
23 Comments:
oh wow - that totally looks like a mess. At first I thought everyone was parked like that... Crazy Italians!!!
5/08/2006 10:17 AM
Heh...now that's some funny shiznit right there! Thanks for the Monday morning laugh!
5/08/2006 11:52 AM
lol - I love your life!
5/08/2006 1:05 PM
That is so Italian!
I once had my hire car towed over there 'cause I was in an (invisible) no parking zone.
Then the nice p'liceman wanted a translation of my driving licence.
Puuuleeeeeeease! :D
5/08/2006 1:19 PM
hmmm, Carlo actually parked like that this afternoon!
5/08/2006 1:28 PM
How did you get that pic? Great stuff.
5/08/2006 2:21 PM
scusa, whatssupa wid dat??? Looks perfectly normal to me...
5/08/2006 2:26 PM
Brilliant. And I thought there were crazy drivers in NYC - that takes the cake! :)
5/08/2006 3:03 PM
we used to live in Rome and the reputation of its traffic was bad, but we heard rumours that Napoli was by far the worst city in bella Italia to drive in. Looks like it is living up to its reputation ;)
btw, you have been tagged. Scusa...
5/08/2006 4:04 PM
Nice to see us Angelenos haven't cornered the market on bad parking.
(Loved your recipes in the previous post, by the way. I'm going to save them.)
5/08/2006 4:17 PM
very nice. the poor bus! i love italian parking. today i almost got run over walking on the sidewalk...(or wait, make that EVERY day!)
-Jackie
5/08/2006 5:25 PM
What's the hell is wrong with you Italians over there? Tracie, did you park like that for the pic? It was you, wasn't it? Come clean!
5/09/2006 12:44 AM
Typical Italian parking. Basically park the car wherever it stops and let everyone else figure out how to get around you. Have done myself a couple of times, of course learned by "example".
Ann
http://www.blogcharm.com/amborg
5/09/2006 3:25 AM
expat--and a mess is was
camille--prego :)
lettuce--watch your back, i'm making salad today
tc--haha :)
nikinpos--i believe it
kevin--gennaro and i were on our way back from the port (we had just arrived from ischia) and there was a bit of a traffic jam. i ALWAYS have my camera so i snapped it though the dirty windshield of the jeep...
yael--you've been in italy too long :)
coffee--d'oh!
sweatpants--thanks, let me know how they turn out
stelle--you know the sidewalk is no place for a pedestrian!!
dear al--i would never have the "palle" for that
ann--tsk tsk tsk
novelist--you ain't seen nuthin yet
5/09/2006 4:30 AM
wow, I thought parking in Rome was bananas.
5/09/2006 4:57 AM
well I live in Naples and I am desperately trying to learn to drive. Well, it is a bit embarassing : I passed my driving licence when I was 18 (now I am 32) but, since then, I have never found the courage to start driving "on my own". I mean: in a very first time I started driving with some friends (and they all told me "ok manu you can drive quite well), but then I found out (clever girl isn't it) that driving with someone by your side was useless because the real need to do it was when you had to go in some place and nobody could drive you to that far place!
Sadly this courage I needed never showed up so I gave up the idea but now I am "in need": I work in a place very far and I have to take underground and two buses to get there and it is annoying since I have to wake un at 5 in the morning..............SO I desperately need to get rid of my fears and sit in a car and drive it, but what makes it worst is that the place where I have to learn it is NAPLES and I am really scared....any comments and suggestions are almost welcome!
manuela
PS: please excuse me for my English.........that's another thing I am desperately trying in this period of big changes: to improve my English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5/09/2006 12:47 PM
I have learned that BAD parking is NOT a trait of the north OR the south. Both equaly share in the bad parking department.
CYn
5/09/2006 1:03 PM
Actually, are the Italians related to the Mexicans? We so could not get away with something like that in Atlanta but somehow I can picture it happening where I've been in Mexico.
5/09/2006 9:06 PM
hehe, one day I'll stick a video of some Cypriot drivers on my blog. They must be seen to be believed. An official EU poll said that they were officially the worst drivers in the whole of the EU.... but they still think their great. Tell me, if they're so great, why do they think it is acceptable to reverse through traffic-lights to get out of an illegal parking space just because it's quicker than putting their phone down? I'm at a loss with that one.
5/10/2006 1:28 PM
LMAO...I've heard stories about the driving/parking over there...SCARY.
I mean, do the police ever write tickets?
5/16/2006 12:33 AM
Is it o.k. if I use this great picture. I told my family and friends from Holland about driving, parking etc in Italy and this picture is so making its point!
5/25/2006 9:17 AM
I used this photo too on my blog... in this "post" I hope is copyleft! :)
5/27/2006 9:59 AM
That's so normal in Naples :P
8/16/2006 3:40 AM
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