This is the first year that I’ve had my drivers license around Christmas time & I am just discovering the horrific experience known as ‘Holiday parking’.

There are literally NO free parks near my place of work. Today I circled the entire lot for about 15 minutes. Finally, I saw what appeared to be an empty park, signalled, started turning in… only to realise it was already occupied by the smallest car of all time. Embarrassed, I reversed back out & continued further along, all the while being tailed by 4 other agitated parking-lot drivers, when I saw what appeared to be another vacant space. I performed the same routine only to find that the car I previously saw was not in fact the smallest car in the world… that title actually belongs to the car in the current park that I’m half inside. Filled with white hot rage & humiliation I decided to leave that aisle altogether & try my luck elsewhere, where I wasn’t being followed by people who were surely chuckling with amusement at my awkward occupied-park encounters. As I sped away, I drove past two EMPTY parks that I’d not noticed until my car was too far past them to try & enter. They were quickly filled by the spectators behind me.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUU…