For rural drivers, a skill never needed.
Wal*Mart and other shopping giants pour
blacktop over
acres of once-farmland soil, and put all the shopping in nice little rows,
like cattle at the food trough.
For urban drivers, a skill used every day, unless you use the public transportation.
Useless factoid: San Francisco has an estimated 33% fewer parking spaces than there are cars, on any given day. The only reason they sweep the streets twice a week is to make sure nobody camps their yuppie SUV for too long.
Useless factoid: Manhattan drivers need to call the garage at least an hour before they want their cars; it takes that long to untangle the valet-packed iron puzzle. It's like the Towers of Hanoi game, moving one Buick at a time.