When you were growing up, how many people actually parked their car in the garage?

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32. We always put our car in the garage. I grew up in northern Iowa.

We had a detached double garage, with a divider between the doors. The winter of 1961-62 was a bitch. Super cold, and lots and lots of snow. What was worse, my father was recovering from a broken hip.

One day, my mother was trying to put the car (a ‘57 Chevy) into the garage. The driveway was slippery, and she was having trouble. Finally, she gunned it, the rear tires slipped on the ice, and she found herself in the garage — sideways. She had managed to park the car in the garage 90° from how it should have been pointing, AND without touching the center divider.

After my father got done laughing, he called up some of his friends. After THEY got done laughing, they came over with jacks and ropes, and managed to straighten the car out. They weren’t laughing by the time they got done.