Pekkle pointed out a very entertaining article from the NYTimes about how manliness is correlated to the ability to find parking spots in lower Manhattan Chinatown. One of the funnier quotes from the piece:

Sons in many cultures learn how to behave as men by observing their fathers, often in rituals that may seem odd or even fetishistic to outsiders. There’s a tribe in New Guinea, for instance, where the fathers gather together and masturbate into a river while their adolescent male offspring watch. In a similar way, I learned from the back seat of my father’s 1977 Chevrolet Caprice Classic that Raskin men find good parking. Quickly.

I actually laughed out loud.