What do you think when someone parks like this?
At work today, all the Indian and Pakistani guys were looking down out the window and talking and laughing. They were looking at my car, though not specifically my car.
When I saw them, someone had just left. He was really upset. Because he had parked his shiny Black BMW Convertible right over the line.
And some employee (me) parked his cheap little car in the next over space, only 8 inches away. Of course, it was a parking space, and I fit, so why not? I didn’t know who he was when I parked there, I knew it wasn’t the CEO or CTO, but it turns out it was the head of the corporate sales team.
He walked into our office, apparently complaining, trying to find out whose car it was. Then at the moment he left, I came back from the bathroom, and saw a bunch of Pakistani guys and Indian guys really excited, looking at my car. They told me, “someone parked next to him,” and I turned around and saw him just as he walked out of view on the end of the hall.
I looked down at the car, from the third story window, and someone asked me if it was my car.
And of course, I said ‘yes,’ although kind of shyly. They thought it was hilarious. Best office excitement we’d had in weeks. There was plenty of room for the guy to get in his car on the passenger side. He didn’t try. He spent the next two hours walking around the office trying to figure out whose car it was.
It wasn’t easy to focus on work. Finally the guy found me, and said, “is that your car down there? The white one?”
I said, “Yeah.” The paint on his BMW was more expensive than my entire car.
He asked, “You parked next to me?” He looked tired and upset.
I said, “Yeah, I think so.”
He asked, “Could you move your car please? I can’t get out.”
I didn’t want to be mean to him so I said, “Sure, I can.”
If he had been rude, I wouldn’t have moved, but he asked politely, so I didn’t want to harass him too much.
I parked a lot closer than this guy. Sadly I didn’t think to take a picture until too late.
