But with a crowd of a few hundred people watching and £10,000 for charity riding on your ability to execute the perfect parallel park the stakes are even higher.
Yet Leeds motormouth Chris Moyles may have had an inkling he was due for a bumper donation to Comic Relief whatever happened.
And so it proved, as the Radio 1 DJ gently kissed a couple of cones in his impromptu parking spot but still made off with the cash.
On the latest leg of his Red Nose Day rally – which takes Chris, Comedy Dave and the rest of the Breakfast Show team from John O Groats to Lands Ends – his big tall bus pulled into the car park at RBS Insurance in Pudsey, along with several instantly recognisable motors.
Both The A-Team van and the Dukes of Hazzard car had rendered staff transfixed as many of the watching lads reverted to awestruck, wide-eyed kids they had once been watching the shows in days gone by.
Shaky
Countless pairs of eyes also stared out of office block windows as Moyles and his team brought a spark of glamour to an otherwise grey and ordinary car park.
As he edged the grey saloon car into its designated spot, the crowd 'oohed' and 'aahed' as if it were Bonfire Night.
But despite the long wait in the freezing cold after Chris made an impromptu stop in Richmond, the crowd cheered him on his way to parking perfection – well almost.
He warned people before he got in the car that he couldn't drive and he was true to his word.
After two shaky attempts he finally edged half into the spot and bagged £10,000 for Comic Relief in the process.
He told the crowd: "I thought I'd got that bang on."
"Have you been waiting long?" he asked the crowd, when they replied yes, he said "well it gets you out of work for a while and I've just been told you can have the day off."
He also thanked the crowd for supporting the Comic Relief campaign.
chris.murphy@ypn.co.uk