Big Cars + No Parking = Shitty

My office is pretty terrible for parking. There are ten spaces for about twenty people, not including customers and reps who come to visit. My office also happens to be in a pretty shady area -it is surrounded by tow lots (as in where they take your car when it gets towed) and body work (for cars, not people) shops. Recently a GINORMOUS new office building has gone under construction directly behind our small, one story building, creating even further parking dilemmas since the alley way behind our building was a favorite place to cram a lot of cars but is now no longer available b/c concrete chunks could fall on you or your vehicle. My office's solution to this incredibly irritating problem? Double park. However, that only works for the "front spots" which are reserved for those who own either a Lexus, BMW, or Mercedes, but sometimes lesser cars (Chrysler 300's for example) can go there too (...technically the spots are reserved for the outside sales people, but I think it's just because they have nice cars). So obviously I park in the back, which only has five spots and risks destruction from the office being built behind us daily (they actually put these stupid cloth covers on our cars each day to protect them although honestly they are more of a hassle to remove than getting another scratch/dent to add the collection on the Lancer).

So now that I have bored you with the background of my company's parking problems, I want to discuss my opinions of them. Recently a couple (as in husband and wife) have started working here. The wife has worked here for over ten years, but in the last few months, her husband has jumped on the lighting bandwagon, mainly doing the same job I did when I started working here. For those that don't remember/never knew, I packaged light bulbs. Yes. A 30 something year old man is packaging light bulbs. Despite this and his overwhelming use of cheap aftershave/cologne, they both drive to work. And they both drive Nissan trucks, possibly some of the biggest vehicles out there besides those heavy duty trucks. This pisses me off. Environmental issues aside, they are taking up too much space. If small cars (like mine, good ole Lancer) parked in the back, double parking would be possible without blocking the remnants of the alley or risk of concrete destruction. However, this is not possible because of their monstrosities which they also don't park next to one another, making impossible for even two small cars to park next to each other. That is stupid and inefficient. That's the Miami way.

Well I don't want to end on a bitter, whining note, so I will try and leave you with something uplifting. Okay this isn't uplifting but hilarious as it just happened as I was trying to find pictures of puppies to post or something. Said husband's cell phone ring? THE CIRCLE OF LIFE FROM THE LION KING. And not just any part...it's the very beginning...the part where it's just African (?) words being yelled. I am not making this up. These are the people I work with. So I'll end with the Circle of Life. I suppose that can be either uplifting or depressing, depending on your outlook.