Over the past few weeks I had been unusually
upset in parking lots quite frequently noticing that generally people don’t
really know how to park a car and that they don’t care about the extent that
their parking job might be affecting someone else. So on this particular
evening while parking my car in a hotel parking while I was traveling for work,
I happened upon another careless park job. Someone in a regular sized car had
parked significantly over the edge of their space rendering the one to the
right unusable by anything larger than a sideways smart car or a motorcycle, of
which I was driving neither. Inconsiderate parking is such a pet peeve!
So I devised a plan. Actually it was really
more of a reaction to the thought, “Screw this guy.” Since it was at a hotel in
a white collar working city on a weekday, the odds were that this was a male
between the age of 27 and 50 who was staying alone. And the man was wealthy
enough to afford such a great car, or rent one, so he probably cared little
about his effect on the more trivial people in life, e.g. those parking next to
him. With these facts considered I used my skills as a former car dealership
lot-boy to make this guy’s day a little more inconvenient. Knowing he would have to enter from the left
side of his car, I drastically over-parked in the empty space to the left
running into his space and leaving about four inches between our doors. Since I
was alone, I didn’t have to worry about using the passenger door of my car. If
he was an inconsiderate fat man, this would frustrate him greatly, whereas I
had enough space to dance the Virginia reel out the driver’s side of my car.
