Parking Lots

Today's review is going to be short and sweet.  Parking lots are awesome.  Whether the spaces are a normal grid pattern or the fancy angled ones, parking lots are useful and wonderful.  The provide us with convenient places to leave our cars when we want to shop or eat.  They keep us from having to parallel park on the street, and I can assure you that is a good thing!  You should appreciate parking lots because without them, parking would suck.


Now, that I have handled the review portion, the rest of today's post will consist of me complaining about the abuses that go on in parking lots:

1. A space with a bunch of white lines in it is not space at all.  It's a way to designate where you are NOT supposed to park.  The parking area at the mall closest to the theater has some areas like this, which some people insist on parking in.  Knock it off.
2. Pedestrians need to quickly move out of the traffic areas.  Don't meander along when there are cars attempting to drive through the lanes to find spots.  Walk to one side or the other.
3. Idling your car by the entrance/exit to a store is not parking.  Don't got to the Sam's Club liquor store and leave your car idling by the entrance.  You need to park your vehicle in an actual spot.  If the driver is getting out of the car, the car needs to be in a space.  I understand if you're idling there while you wait to pick up someone; that is okay.  If you are going in to shop, use a space.
4. Parking directly over the white line, hence taking up two spaces, should be a hanging offense.  Parking...you're doing it wrong!  It's one spot per car.  If you need two spots, take a cab.
5. Handicap parking is for people that actually need it.  I don't presume to know when someone has a medical condition, but you know who you are.  Today, a lady informed me that she was using the handicap sticker of her husband's to park in handicap spots to protect her car.  Her husband has been dead for two years.
6. Parking lots are for parking, not panhandling.  If it were for panhandling, it would be called a panhandling lot.

Now, go forth and use parking lots for good.  Perpetrate evil no longer.