HTTP:: Women More Likely to Ask Someone to Park Their Car
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It has often been said that women are up to no good when they get behind the wheel for reasons ranging from their inability to focus on one thing alone (driving, that is) to not being as endowed as men when it comes to spatial orientation. A recent study comes to show that women also suffer from what is known as âœparking stress,â which makes them twice more likely to ask someone else to park their car, the Telegraph informs. The survey included 4,200 drivers, 1,428 men and 2,772 women, and was conducted by insurer Elephant in the UK. The results indicate that, when it comes to parking, women find themselves at a loss, with three quarters of them saying they are discouraged about having to back into a space even when they have enough room to maneuver. About 22 percent of female respondents also admit to giving up without even trying, regardless of whether they have enough room or not. Parallel parking is even more tricky for women, most of them coming clean about the!
ir aversion towards it. When they know someone is watching, the so-called âœparking stressâ kicks in and women are twice more likely to get out of the car and go ask a stranger to park their vehicle for them. Men, on the other hand, are at the opposite pole, with just nine percent admitting to not being able to pa...
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