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¿Question #405?
Spielfreak: Why is it that you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

oldhoss: Party at Woelf's!!! Park on the lawn!!!
Woelf: I park in a garage or in a parking lot.
Felimid: That's English for ya.
the manatee: Because doing the opposite of either would be unsafe and illegal.
Phil Fleischmann: Try it the other way some time, and you'll find out.
Caerid: *sigh*
Spirit of 70: Tradition.
paulofcthulhu2: semantics
bcooperok: Ah, Carlin. Never gets old.
hydra66: it all sounds very american. Over here we drive on roads
cgund: pass
Polgara: because it's in english...
Hubsi1w6: I am German, I drive on the Autobahn and park in the parking lot.
ciscokidnj: 7-11 is open 24 hours but still has locks
aleo09: just the way it is
Wibblenut: to confuse the invading hordes
papa_bear_is_asleep: In Australia, no one abbreviates the name Lawrence as Larry, but in America they do. I was raised in America, so I was called Larry. An Australian once asked me, "How do you get Larry out of Lawrence?" I said, "I don't."
hannibal twin 8: That is probably the funniest question I've seen so far! As to the answer, I'm not quite sure. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that in America, they switched the driver seat from right to the left.
DHEK: It's just the way they're called. If you're not satisfied with that answer, go search them up and see if you can find the history of how those words came to be.
Benzebub: English has a way with words.
Azzarc: Nope
monkeyrobot: Yes, why?
Geosphere: You WALK on a WALK way. When cars came up, they continued the etymology to DRIVE on a DRIVEway. Robert Moses originally owned the park systems that were interconnected by his private roads - the Parkways, which were exempt to state law and had their own rules.
diehard4life: *flush*
dakyon: A horse.
heli: Originally the idea was to make drive through parks where people could drive and enjoy the scenery. Hence the term "parkway".
richlowe32: Not in this country we don't.
davidgpeterson: hey i already asked that!
pattonre: Parking on a parkway would be dangerous, and driving in my driveway is only good for very short distances.
FrozenHoHos: Everyone please stop asking this
puffinge: Why is it that you are annoying me even though you haven't been on GeekQuestions for months now?
ct_cruiser: because we learnt from England
brainrob: What's a parkway? Must be foreign.
Loquutus: boogers
Helenoftroy: huh yes
Arcadian Del Sol: The Man Says So
rawdawg: cuz thats the way the good lord made it
korppu: Stupid language?
ChaosOrdeal: Why do you dildo an asked question, but you get asked questions by a dildo?
POvidiusNaso: For the same reasons that one sometimes packs a sandwich and sandwiches a pack.
GrandpaDave: Because people are stupid
Randy Cox: Why do so many people think everyone has a garage? Some have only a carport. Others don't even have a driveway to park in (they park on the street).
mrbeankc: why not?
Great Dane: I don't
2amp: who said i do?
Lord_Prussian: Discuss among yourselves, I'm feeling vehklempt.
scriptorum: I don't know, but Steven Wright just called and he said he wants his jokes back.
Gecko23: Because engineers studied engineering, not grammar.
AWildEep: Because it's English. it doesn't make sense.
skrutsch: I don't know, but my friends call their driveway a parking pad.
hobbes_inc: jumbo shrimp
Claytonius Maximus: If you melt dry ice can you swim without getting wet?
The Unbeliever: 42
arkibet: Yesterday, I put my car key in my house lock... started right up. Took my house for a spin.
Sceadeau: Did you make that one up? It is clever.
mandj2001: what do you get when you order "jumbo shrimp"?
Ivan: Because you are american? We drive on the road and park in the garage.
rydiafan: English is a flawed language.
melissa: The vagaries of the English Language.
snoozefest: probably the French's fault
toulouse: Only people on the East Coast drive on parkways
nexttothemoon: We need things like this or else irony loses it's meaning.
Tim Synge: You don't know England that well, do you?
AlorielLelyn: Because cars go both ways?
kennyb: who said that first...George Carlin...steve Wright?
CDRodeffer: Comedians are idiots.
GuyHill: americans are stupid?
Blackwind: Because George Carlin said so.
m_r_tyler: Why must you imitate EndersGame?
darthcliff: Sweet mysteries of life . . .
Steve Leach: What the hell is a parkway?
gnomehome: Do you really ?
geberus: our language is dumb
netfilterz: Do you actually work on your workstation...? Thought so...
raolsson: Because I accept the language as it has been given to me so I can communicate with others, particularly when playing boardgames. If I start to invent my own meaning for words, el carp sum sluggish!
BobDodgerBlue: Never Answer
haraggan: Same reason it's called a shipment if it goes by car and cargo if it goes by ship
chaddyboy_2000: Parkways refer to the park-like setting of the road, and driveways merely lead you to the garage. You only really park on the driveway if you have too many cars for your garage.
louiseh: I don't drive at all. And what's a parkway?
Latria: That is part of Monopoly's rules.
Shakar: Ask the English Academy.
HappyProle: Parallelisms are stupid; what are you, a politician?
cornjob: Dunno Steven.
Pseudo Nymh: Because I have no respect for rules.
yossarians: old joke
queequeg: okay Gallagher, next...
djlg: Driveways were initially much longer, leading from the road back to the main house on the property. So initially people really did drive on them. The word parkway was used to describe a well developed thoroughfair, complete with trees, grassy divided medians, and other landscaping, thus the "park" in the name.
LudesFactor: because you can't drive in the driveway and you don't want to park on the parkway.
CortexBomb: Because the english language is in need of help?
kunnagh: In the UK we usually catch a train at a parkway...
Flyspeck23: I don't (ain't got a car).
jttm: Because you drive on a driveway (as well), and the park in parkway refers to trees (not stopping the car). Do I win?
Reloaded: because English is sucking ftupid. :)
berserkley: beats me, grasshopper
tragicpoet: George W. Bush
pernishus: I don't do either
ValJor: English is a crazy language. Read this: http://alcor.concordia.ca/%7Evjorge/paginas/valdir/crazy.html
dietevil: So that people can think of GeekQuestions
janiera: Cause the English language is screwy.
skelebone: Because you're a retard.
MisterCranky: Well, the driveway is a lot shorter.
shumyum: As long as you can speed on the speedway, baby.
EndersGame: Because shipments travel by car and cargo travels by ship. And after you chop a tree down, you chop it up.
shotokanguy: to get to the other side?