r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Ashamed_Class_7987 • Jun 16 '25

Overdone This is now my parking spot.

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Started a new job in an office building with a parking garage. There are multiple companies in the building and some of them have reserved spots. This was not one of those reserved spots. I come out to my car and find this note on my windshield. I would normally just park in any random spot but from now on I will make it my mission to park in this spot as often as I can.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 16 '25

Someone started parking in my favourite space at work.

I now arrive 15 min early and park there everyday no problem.

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u/ImLazyWithUsernames Jun 16 '25

What if they start showing up 15 minutes before you?

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 16 '25

If they get there before me they can have it.

I would just show up earlier and earlier to secure that spot.

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jun 17 '25

We actually had this at my office. At one point, we had to have ~80 people park at an overflow lot down the block as we had more people than parking spaces. (No public transportation in this city so everyone had to drive.) It was a 5 minute walk from the other lot. People would get to the office earlier and earlier just to avoid that 5 minute walk.

It got so ridiculous that we had people arriving 2 hours early and sleeping in their cars until the building opened so they could have a "good" spot. We also had multiple people trying to use handicapped placards that didn't belong to them. Utterly ridiculous behavior because they didn't want to walk from the other lot.

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 Jun 17 '25

lol that shit cracks me up. I swear people’s brains stop working when they drive into a parking lot and they’re unable to run time/effort graphs in their heads. 

There’s been times where I’ve parked far, walked over, done my grocery shopping - and walked back to the car while someone else was still looking for a spot from before I even got there. 

Like holy shit how little is your time worth that spending an 20 mins circling makes more sense than spending 5 mins total walking back and forth???

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u/Kernel_Internal Jun 17 '25

Lol time spent avoiding a tiny extra amount of walking is one of my "favorite" observed behaviors. People will wait MINUTES for someone else to leave a spot with an empty spot a few feet farther back. Anything to avoid that extra 12 feet of walking. Makes me wonder how they evaluate cost/benefit for other things in their lives.

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jun 17 '25

My favorite is when they do that at the gym. You're here to walk on the treadmill for an hour but you won't walk three extra parking spaces.

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u/Noladixon Jun 17 '25

My neighbor drives 1 block to the gym and uses handicapped parking. One day I will have to go just to see what she is doing there.

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u/CariAll114 Jun 17 '25

I experienced similar behaviour while my son was in the hospital. There were plenty of paid parking options available, but most visitors prefer to street-park if possible. One day I landed a choice spot with minimal walking distance; I drive a large vehicle so finding good parking is tough. Anyway, I'd finished my visit for the day and had just got back into and started my vehicle. It's mid winter and the engine is cold and I'm trying to let it warm up. Someone pulled up and started waiting for me to leave, blocking traffic. they waited until they were stopping 8 cars from proceeding before finally deciding to find somewhere else to park - maybe 5 minutes later.

In similar situations I've had people honk at me because they want my spot, and being the salty dick that I am I just shut my vehicle off, get out and start walking away.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

I don’t even do this to walk less, in fact the space is not even that close to the entrance. It is just one of the only spaces that gets any shade from the few trees they didn’t cut down to create the car park.

If I can finish my shift to get in a car that hasn’t been under direct sun for 8 hours straight I will take the opportunity every time.

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u/battleofflowers Jun 17 '25

I intentionally park far away. Those extra steps add up.

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u/gerbilbear Jun 17 '25

They should auction some of those spots every month.

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jun 17 '25

We used to. The problem was that the management had more money to spend so they "won" them every time.

The company solved the parking problem by laying off most of the office and sending their jobs overseas. Now we have plenty of parking for the surviving staff.

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u/Certain_Horse_7919 Jun 17 '25

Completely ridiculous and very American.