Scenario: My Experience with a Parking War

So it was another Saturday morning, and I was headed into town to go to the gym. This gym is different, as it tailors to women and people with disabilities. We were running a bit late, but arrived in what should have been plenty of time to start my workout session. Oh #*^% !, the one handi-cap parking space was taken! (The fact that there is one handi-cap spot for a gym that caters to people with disabilities is an entirely different blog post for another time). There is absolutely nowhere else to park, since there is a very popular bakery beside the gym (The fact that there is a bakery beside a gym is either incredibly stupid, or a very ingenious business plan). We just happened to notice that the truck parked in MY space had no handi-cap sticker. Now, the fight was on. Luckily, the guy was in the vehicle, so we can just politely ask him to move, right? Think again. He informs us that he is a parking officer here to write up illegal parking tickets in the surrounding parking lot. Yeah, you read that right. The guy responsible for handing out parking tickets was illegally parked, and refused to move. After a heated discussion, his solution was to just paint over the handi-cap parking spot, because apparently he has the authority to do that. Scary, isn’t it? A few curse words later from this guy, and we eventually had our spot. I guess I will have to budget my time better for future scenarios in which people have a false sense of entitlement.