Well, this...this is just great...
So, running errands, and I had this thought. A veritable rock of brain crack as it were. Parking really annoys me. Like, people who park all en masse up by the store, and then there is this vast wasteland of bare blacktop beckoning to you, saying, *gasp*, please...we only get used during mad sales and black friday...
So you park there, and you get a wierd look from the person in the passenger's seat. What? I like the walk, it's a nice day, there's no nuclear fallout that will turn us into raving mutants, and there aren't any zombies trying to eat our brains...
But, what I don't get, really? Is the driving around for five minutes, looking for a close spot, when b'jeebus, we could have been in the store already if you had parked in the wastelands, instead of creeping along, stalking that poor lady with the cart who is actually parked at the very end of the cluster anyway...
I've been trying to come up with reasons why people park so close, and I can't. Or why they park in clusters. i would be willing to bet, that if you were to get ten cars to park in the back of the lot, all together, people would park there, close to them, for no reason other than they were there. Some mavericks would park up close, of course, but I'd bet there would be some of the herd that would park in the back. It's...just plain...wierd.
Ah well. I will continue to park in the back of the lot, and if I happen to get caught in the rain, well, rain hasn't turned me into a pile of goo like it did ol' Elphaba, right?