When I road tested for my first driver's license in Florida (the very day of my 16th birthday), I managed to pass by only one point. What cost me was parallel parking. Hey, in the 70's in Florida, NOBODY worried about parallel parking. You found a nice long stretch of empty curb, pulled in at the beginning and parked at the end. None of this jockeying back and forth stuff. :-) I told the examiner that I couldn't parallel park. She insisted I try. Ten minutes of back-and-forth later, she admitted that I was right. Minus 15 points.

The good news is, now I'm VERY good at parallel parking. I lived in Washington DC for a year. If you can't fit your car into a space that's maybe only a foot longer than your car, you're going to spend a lot of time driving around looking for spaces... And with the ticket Nazis they've got in DC, you also get VERY good at judging how far you are from the curb.

PoC
who is glad to be driving on the wide streets of San Diego!