I'm in the parking lot, down at the end, where there is a row of spaces against a curb, and two rows back to back. There are two parking spaces in the single row with two parked cars in between. Immediately across from those two open spaces in the single row are two spaces on both sides of the double row, so one could pull through both spaces from either side.

I watched a car try to back into one of the spaces in the single row. The driver isn't very good (in fact, he's down-right horrible), and he has to try a few times, but never gets into the space. So he pulls straight through the double row, and around through the other double space (effectively making a U-turn) to try at the other space in the single row. A three-point turn later, he's trying to back into the other space in the single row.

Then, as he's pulling out to try again, another car comes down the aisle and pulls into the parking spot. The first driver is furious, so he tries again at the first space, but only after pulling through the double row and coming around through the other space in the double row.

And just as he's about to try again at the first space, another car comes down the aisle and pulls into the first space just before the first driver gets there.

As I'm relaying this to a friend, he doesn't believe me that someone could actually drive like that. I say, "You can't make this stuff up!"

Then I wake up and realize that it was all just a dream.


¶ 10:13 AM