it’s time for me to share something amusing from my new life so far, instead of frustrations.
the current experiment demands that i get up insanely early every single day and go to work. i’m lucky if i get to sleep in late enough to see the earliest signs of daybreak in my rearview mirror in the morning. usually, i’m not lucky. (i had to do this for a while to use a shared microscope as a grad student, but i could at least sleep in once in a while. this particular situation is painful.)
at any rate, this means i’ve got the very first non-university-owned vehicle to park in the parking lot for the day. and it also means i get total fucking rockstar parking. (sweet!) BUT, this also means i have displaced the former earliest arrival of the day.
that dude is pissed off about the situation. he has started to arrive earlier in an attempt to claim the single most rockstar of parking spaces before i get there.
alright, if that’s important enough for him to get up at absurd-thirty in the morning, whatever. i don’t mind parking 15 feet farther away from the building. but every few days, i have to get to work EVEN EARLIER. and this totally messes with the dude. if i move my car to bring some stuff over from another building, by the time i get back 15 minutes later, his car is in the most-rockstar spot. he must be watching for me to leave, like a hawk.
i’m really amused by this. it’s so trivial.
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October 11, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Spiny Norman
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week. Thanks so much for sharing it.
October 11, 2009 at 3:30 pm
ambivalent academic
People are so fucking weird sometimes! My next door neighbor is doing this to me. 5 off-street spaces for tenants, total of 6 cars. Usually not a problem since one tenant is rarely around…but then 2 of the five spaces are apparently WAAAAAYYYY better than the other 3. Such that if I leave one of the coveted 2 spots for more than 30 minutes, my neighbor (whose front window looks out onto the parking, poor sod) will move his vehicle FROM THE SPOT RIGHT NEXT TO IT, into the one I just vacated. OMG, now I have to park in the “sucky” spot RIGHT NEXT TO IT!!!!!
October 11, 2009 at 10:41 pm
dr leigh
Norman, if that’s the single funniest thing you’ve read all week, i sincerely apologize
but i’m glad you liked it!
AA: HA, that is equally trivial and lame, which makes me laugh. also, this is why i totally appreciate that we now have our own driveway!