Todays topic - Parking. I went to Costco today to get a few things that would require a cart to haul it to my car. To my knowledge I have yet to acquire super human strength so there you have it, stuck with conventional methods. In choosing my parking spot, I alway go for the spot near but not next to the shopping cart return if I know I am getting things that will require me to use one. This seems logical to me. Then I can just load the car, walk 10 feet to return the cart and back to the car and away I go. Oddly enough, I don't think many people use this method for choosing where to park. Works for me since that will leave me with lots to choose from!
Another good method is going for along the store front instead of out from it. Those parking spaces are normally left alone because the people who want the spot near the door try for right in front of the store. If they don't find one close, they usually just park at the first available one down that aisle. I wonder if it's some weird psychological choice. Bare with me for an extremely dorky engineering moment, but I bet that the way people park looks like a normal distribution from above. Whoa, that was almost a bit much even for me.
Now some people are the kind of people that pull down an aisle only to get about 15 yards in because they are waiting for someone to finish loading their car and pull out so they can have the spot that's only a little ways from the entrance. I don't understand why people do this. In the time spent waiting for the spot to become available you probably could have parked and walked to your destination. What's another few feet? Most of the time the next available spot is only a few more down.
Now this excludes holiday shopping or at times when there is little to no parking available. Fine, troll along and get what you can get, however I am talking the everyday things. Are people really that lazy? I do enjoy a good parking spot, but if it's not present when I want to park, then fine, next one in the area will do. I figure I probably don't get enough exercise as it is. Does anyone else have weird methods for parking or I am alone in my dorkness on this? Which by the way I am totally willing to accept.
3 comments:
I drive a tow truck to go the store. That way I simply choose the spot I want, tow vehicle currently occupying the spot away, and then park.
And that is why Amanda does the shopping...
Don't forget the people who have new cars and park as far away from the store as possible in order to try to avoid being hit. I wonder how old a car has to be before they progress to waiting for the closest spot?
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