Car Park Problems – Your Personal Issues
Posted by itsparker on October 31, 2009
That nice car you slide into at the beginning of a trip somewhere, becomes a nuisance when you seek a place to park or store it temporarily. This is especially true on a busy holiday shopping or travel (think airports) day; during extra hot, rainy or wintry weather; or when arriving at an unfamiliar location. You experience parking frustrations such as:
- Having to depart early because of parking uncertainty
- Spend extra time prowling through streets in search of an empty curb space
- Dig for proper coins to pay for parking
- Look for a convenient and reasonably priced parking lot or garage
- Drive up and down rows of cars searching for an empty space – in a lot or in a cavernous parking garage
- Maybe have to resort to turning your car over to an attendant to park
- Suffer through a long weather exposed walk after you park, or
- Suffer through long walks and elevator waits in a parking garage
- Wait in a long or slow moving parking payment line
- Worry throughout about:
- Crime to your person
- Car theft or car contents theft
- Scrapes and dings to your car
- Parking lot or garage accidents
- Getting a parking ticket
- Squeezing into and out of a small space
- Backing out from between large SUV’s
A brief note. I was recently on a vacation trip to southern Spain. When walking past lines of parked cars I was amazed to notice how many cars from all over Europe had scrapes and dings along the sides and quarter panels. I understood completely after being forced to maneuver my rental car into tight quarters between concerete columns in underground car parks. I was also surprised at the detail scrutiny my car underwent when I turned it in, the car rental company looking for those same small scrapes and dings.
What you’d like to happen – at the end of your journey to downtown, the airport, a mall shopping center, a big box retailer, a large medical center, an office building – is for your car to just disappear, and later reappear at your request, when your business is over – like a valet Genie driving it away, no tip required!
