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Wicked Blue

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1. Nobody in my neighborhood had a garage

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Wed Feb 12, 2025, 12:23 PM

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When you were growing up, how many people actually parked their car in the garage? [View all] underpants Feb 12 OP

Nobody in my neighborhood had a garage Wicked Blue Feb 12 #1

In this climate you're insane if you have a garage and don't keep your car in it. Ocelot II Feb 12 #2

We have a spot for my wife's car underpants Feb 12 #9

Some of them big old cars wouldn't fit. Historic NY Feb 12 #3

You should have seen our garage. greatauntoftriplets Feb 12 #4

Growing up, we had a 3 bay detached garage Marthe48 Feb 12 #5

The vast majority in my neighborhood . surrealAmerican Feb 12 #6

I grew up in an inner city row house. cloudbase Feb 12 #7

Yeah I kinda supposed a more suburban setting underpants Feb 12 #10

Absolutely. cloudbase Feb 12 #14

From '65 until her '91 passing, Mom parked her Impala (four over time) in our SoCal garage. quaint Feb 12 #8

My dad always parked his Henry J in the garage. Emile Feb 12 #11

I grew up in the middle of nowhere and nobody had a garage. catbyte Feb 12 #12

3 cars all garaged every night justaprogressive Feb 12 #13

Everyone in my area. Garages were for cars. JoseBalow Feb 12 #15

Dad. Dorothy V Feb 12 #16

I grew up with a career USAF dad. Onthefly Feb 12 #19

(Sogo raises hand.) We did! Sogo Feb 12 #17

We never did. Two reasons: MissB Feb 12 #18

Everyone in my childhood neighborhood. Buckeye_Democrat Feb 12 #20

We had a 3 car garage with a storage area up top. All cars were always parked in the garage and the doors (manual) beaglelover Feb 12 #21

I remember the manual doors underpants Feb 12 #22

No, no out buildings and we had inside plumbing too! beaglelover Feb 12 #25

Hahahaaa. I thot you meant in the city... electric_blue68 Feb 12 #23

That's me underpants Feb 12 #24

Both my parents and since I am way old, .... me and husband. I do not like in driveway. LizBeth Feb 12 #26

We never had a garage, but ... k8conant Feb 12 #27

My parents never parked there cars in the garage. applegrove Feb 12 #28

my parents garage was used strictly for storage. When I bought my house, I insisted on an attatched garage that I use Meadowoak Feb 12 #29

Growing up, we had an attached 2 car garage on a ranch style home Niagara Feb 12 #30

Parked our family car in the barn. Didn't have a garage. Clouds Passing Feb 12 #31

We always put our car in the garage. I grew up in northern Iowa. rsdsharp Feb 12 #32

That's hilarious underpants Feb 13 #37

Everybody thought it was -- except my mother. rsdsharp Feb 13 #38

My brother did something like that. underpants Feb 13 #41

first you had to have a garage yellowdogintexas Feb 12 #33

When we had a garage MustLoveBeagles Feb 12 #34

City raised. Street parking only. Solly Mack Feb 12 #35

Lower middle to middle class neighborhoods in Hawaii and California -- nope. In Hawaii we had a carport with open sides... Hekate Feb 13 #36

Hell, I can't park my car in the garage now. Aristus Feb 13 #39

😆😆😆😆 underpants Feb 13 #40

My parents always parked their cars in the garage. LogDog75 Feb 13 #42

We parked in the garage but I grew Luciferous Feb 13 #43