He pulled up to a huge green car for parallel parking.
The next day I was parallel parking, with my friend in the passenger seat.
That was kept two lanes to allow for parallel parking on the side of the road.
Parallel parking is often the most feared part of the driver's test, and it's something almost everyone has to do at some point.
Parallel parking is considered to be one of the hardest skills for new drivers to learn.
Parallel parking is an art form in England that he still remembered how to perform.
Malls, he says, have killed the skill of parallel parking.
"The last time I took the test, they had those plastic cones for parallel parking," he said.
With computer-assisted parallel parking, the car is clearly designed for city streets.
Miss Tharrington has her driving test in two weeks, so she worked on parallel parking.