I'm not sure if this goes here or in General Chat, please move at your discretion. I thought it might go here, since I've posted stuff about my school here before.
Background: My university is in Maine. That means we get lots of snow in the winter. My school has a two-type parking ban system. They'll ban people from parking in a certain set of lots, plow one night, then ban the lots that were unbanned the night before to plow them. They're named Parking Bans 1 & 2. The system works fairly well, normally.
Monday night the NE area got a fair amount of snow, but southern Maine got slammed with over a foot. Normal for this time of year. Last night was a Parking Ban 1 on the resident's campus, and tonight there was a Parking Ban 2.
Now normally, I move my car asap so I can get a good spot. However, I'd promised my friend on Monday before the snowstorm that I'd have dinner with him and we'd go to the mall tonight. I didn't want to cancel since I don't see him often, so we went out and had a good time. I got back to the campus around 7:45pm and start looking for a spot.
Please believe me when I say that I spent a good 35 minutes looking for one. I checked resident lots, commuter lots, any lot that was appropriate to park in. Zip, nada. People were parked on sidewalks and in firelanes, and literally there was no spot open. I was about to go ask the police office what I should do when I turned into the lot next to our sports complex. I saw a woman walk to her truck, and saw that she had a staff sticker. Bingo, spot! I put on my blinker, put my car in park, and began to wait patiently.
Well, apparently, she was not as pleased as I was. She started giving me dirty looks. Then, she started going eeeeeeextra slow, even getting out to put on her jacket (!!!) all the while glaring at me. Why did you need to put your jacket on when you're getting in your car? Why not put it on before?
In the end I waited 10 minutes while she took her time, which was not really a bother to me. What bothered me was right before she pulled out, she honked and gave me the finger. Then, she squealed her tires getting out of the spot.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, lady? Look, I understand. I hate it when people hound me to leave my parking spot. But I tried to be as nice as possible about it, smiling at her and the like. Honestly, I mean it when I say there is NO parking. There were at least 20 cars that turned into the lot looking for parking in the time I waited. At least.
Should I have gotten out of my car and explained the situation? Should I have been nicer about it? I just don't think giving a person a rude gesture for waiting patiently for your parking spot is necessary, unless they're rude about it. Bah, maybe I'm sensitive.
Background: My university is in Maine. That means we get lots of snow in the winter. My school has a two-type parking ban system. They'll ban people from parking in a certain set of lots, plow one night, then ban the lots that were unbanned the night before to plow them. They're named Parking Bans 1 & 2. The system works fairly well, normally.
Monday night the NE area got a fair amount of snow, but southern Maine got slammed with over a foot. Normal for this time of year. Last night was a Parking Ban 1 on the resident's campus, and tonight there was a Parking Ban 2.
Now normally, I move my car asap so I can get a good spot. However, I'd promised my friend on Monday before the snowstorm that I'd have dinner with him and we'd go to the mall tonight. I didn't want to cancel since I don't see him often, so we went out and had a good time. I got back to the campus around 7:45pm and start looking for a spot.
Please believe me when I say that I spent a good 35 minutes looking for one. I checked resident lots, commuter lots, any lot that was appropriate to park in. Zip, nada. People were parked on sidewalks and in firelanes, and literally there was no spot open. I was about to go ask the police office what I should do when I turned into the lot next to our sports complex. I saw a woman walk to her truck, and saw that she had a staff sticker. Bingo, spot! I put on my blinker, put my car in park, and began to wait patiently.
Well, apparently, she was not as pleased as I was. She started giving me dirty looks. Then, she started going eeeeeeextra slow, even getting out to put on her jacket (!!!) all the while glaring at me. Why did you need to put your jacket on when you're getting in your car? Why not put it on before?
In the end I waited 10 minutes while she took her time, which was not really a bother to me. What bothered me was right before she pulled out, she honked and gave me the finger. Then, she squealed her tires getting out of the spot.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, lady? Look, I understand. I hate it when people hound me to leave my parking spot. But I tried to be as nice as possible about it, smiling at her and the like. Honestly, I mean it when I say there is NO parking. There were at least 20 cars that turned into the lot looking for parking in the time I waited. At least.
Should I have gotten out of my car and explained the situation? Should I have been nicer about it? I just don't think giving a person a rude gesture for waiting patiently for your parking spot is necessary, unless they're rude about it. Bah, maybe I'm sensitive.
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