I realised today that there's a flaw in the way I parked my car outside the house on Friday (I haven't driven it since).

Pretty much the closest space to my block is much easier to back into and then just drive straight out of, especially in the morning when the car is prone to stalling anyway due to the cold. Often when I back it in there there's a car in the space next to it, so it's just a case of getting it between that car and the hedge without hitting anything.

I'm getting better at it, but on Friday there wasn't a car there, which made it harder to work out where to aim for. But I gave it a go and did it absolutely perfectly the first time. Except for one small problem: I was too close to the hedge to be able to open my door. But since I'd done it so well I didn't want to have to go through the complicated manoeuvre of moving the car sideways, since they don't naturally go that way. So I just got out the passenger side.

Only today when I got back from work and looked at it did I realise there's an additional problem: there's not even enough space between the car and the hedge to get to the driver's side windows to scrape them.

In my defence, where I last lived my car parking space was a really narrow space next to a wall, so I'm used to parking really close to things. Parking in car parks confuses me completely because the spaces are so wide.

But I might well just get the bus all this week anyway - I'm liking not having to drive to work and I'm certainly not doing it in the snow.