In this talk, I will share my mathematical journey and how I got to exploring parking functions. A parking function is a sequence of numbers. Each number represents a spot on a one-way street in which a car wishes to park. If a car enters the street, and its preferred spot is available, the car parks. If the spot is taken, the car moves down the street until it finds the next available place to park. With this understanding of parking functions, there are many different questions we can ask which can lead to a lot of fun mathematical findings. We will explore a few of these and leave asking, "what if we consider this?"