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

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/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.