Tuesday, December 8, 2009

More Parking Lot Madness


The holidays bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. I should be writing about happy holiday cheery things, but then that wouldn't be consistent with my normal cynical tone. Here are two examples of remarkably stupid people that pollute parking lots at the mall, at department stores, and other places that have row parking.

Number 1: I'm not sure who designed row parking, but whoever it was seemed to have the right idea. He/she decided to design the lot so that the parking spaces angled one way on one row and the opposite way on the next and so on and so forth. This way, one could drive down the row where the angles pointed toward their car so it would make parking easier. Then if there were no spaces available, they could pull to the very next row and roll back down the opposite way.....extremely simple concept. Tonight, I'm pulling out of the parking lot at the local Walmart and when I get to the end of the row, some R.S.P. is pulling into my row...going the wrong way. I sat there in my car awaiting for them to become aware of their parking lot faux pas, but then I realized I was at Walmart. The person sat there and would not move. So I had to squeeze around them narrowly missing the bumper of a parked car near the end of the row.

Number 2: I just love it when I'm trying to leave a parking lot and there's a car in front of me in a very narrow row who decides to roll the window down and have a 10 minute conversation with their friend. After all, their conversation is more important than anything in the world and causing a back up of cars is insignificant in their world. RSPs abound.

Any other parking lot stories?

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