Stolen Parking Spots!

I swear, every time you think that you’ve escaped the parking dilemma, something else happens to put you right back to where you started from. Honestly, how hard is it to park where you’re supposed to?


Alright, let me start from the beginning. This happened to me the other night when a friend and I went out to dinner. The parking lot was full to begin with and we mainly had to just search for someone who was leaving in order to find a decent spot (sound like a familiar ODU parking situation? Yeah, tell me about it). Well anyways, we finally found a spot that wasn’t all the way out in the boondocks.


As we were walking inside, something caught my eye that really made me angry about that whole situation. One of the employees came outside to get something from their car. What it was I don’t really know, or care, but what I did care about was the fact that their car was parked RIGHT in front of the restaurant! Since when is it okay for employee’s to take the spots right by the door? I don’t know how this particular establishment works, but anywhere I’ve ever worked has had a special place where employees are supposed to park so that they are not taking the closest spots available for customers. Who knows what “rank” this person is inside the management system, but all I know is that I find it ridiculous that an employee, who is going to be there all day, gets a front row spot when the people who bring the restaurant business have to settle for second best. What happened to “the customer comes first?” I guess that customer was waiting for a parking spot.