Mornings are delivery time on Main Street, Dingle. Trucks turn up from The Mall and trundle uphill with their supplies of giftware, produce and booze to stock shops, restaurants and pubs. The biggest trucks head for the biggest shops– Fitzgeralds’ Home and Hardware and the Centra grocery store directly in front of it.
Both the hardware store and Centra are accessed by the same very small driveway, overhung with an archway apartment, and leading to a tiny parking area between the two shops.
There’s barely enough room for two cars to enter the neck of the lot. Most days someone has parked in the neck, so if a car is coming out, you can’t go in. It’s only when you’re in the neck that you can you spot available parking spaces, so you have to feel the zen before you make that fatal turn.
Often the zen fails and all you see is a queue of cars ahead of you trying to turn around and get out.