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Tuesday, 8 October 2019

Creepy Parking Lots & Bad Afternoons

I had a terrible time sleeping last night. Not sure why. Tried everything - again - to no avail. I don't think my body let me sleep until about 5am.
I don't mind the snow and the mild cold, but driving in it to go to an appointment is always a touch extra stressful.
I get to the office and there is one parking stall available immediately outside the office. It is a handicap parking stall. Perfect!

So I pull in, shut off my car, and realize that my handicap permit is still in my husband's truck from another day.

Crap.

Turn my car back on.
I know there is some underground parking, but I have never been in there. This is as good a time as any.
I find a stall, park, and shut off the car.
"Reserved for Dr. ______. 24hrs. $75 fine and towed at owner's expense".

Crap!

Now, let me paint a picture here. To get to underground parking is a narrow and steep ramp to a garage door. When the door opens, there are a few parking stalls directly ahead facing a wall, and the driveway turns to the right. There is parking on the far wall. The entire lot is one tiny little L-shape. If you get down there and have to turn around, you cannot do it if the stalls are all full. So if it is full, you have to reverse through the L-shaped lot, reverse through the garage door, and reverse up the steep ramp. In the snow. And hope that no one else is coming down the ramp.
So I turn my car back on, back out, do a bunch of S-turns, back into the stall I just came from in order to go forward, then try to back into the stall directly across from the garage door (there is no way I was going to try reversing up that ramp). Add in an entirely fogged up car and a backup camera covered in snow and I'm surprised I even remotely kept my cool. I rolled down the windows to watch my car reversing into the stall.
Dark, creepy, and tight.
Then, there's the elevator. Enough room maybe for two people and, very literally, a sign telling people 'not to panic', because the elevator is seldom used, very slow, and very creaky.

I am very much looking forward to:
1. Getting home
2. Letting the dogs play in the snow
3. Reading
4. Making myself a tea misto

Happy Tuesday!

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