I have written about things the French get right on so many occasions that I feel it is about time I mentioned one thing they don’t get at all: the French cannot build a decent parking garage to save their lives. The curves are to tight, the lanes not wide enough, the spots way too narrow and often too short, and there are supporting columns after every two spots. In other words: every single spot is made even narrower than it already is by the presence of pillars that are both too long and too wide. Here’s an idea: Let le président Sarkozy export the French healthcare system to the United States; in exchange, President Obama can send architects and engineers to France to teach their local colleagues how to build parking garages. Both countries would come out ahead.