The Fine Art of Parking
Pop quiz. What does $320 buy you from UVic? The privilege of driving around Lot 1 for 25 minutes looking for a damn parking spot!
Today I rolled onto campus at a cool 11am, thinking I'd just snipe to the back row and get me a parking spot. Little did I realize that the back row was completely full. Not only that, but there were about 10 other hopeless frustrated souls looking to snipe a spot. My usual trick of waiting near the parking lot entrance and following a person to their car didn't work at all - there was nobody heading back to their cars. I then realized the err in my ways. Today was Tuesday, a day which UVic mainly offers hour long classes starting at 8:30. There would be no student following until about 11:30 when the stragglers made it outside of the ring. So instead of driving around for any longer, I pulled into a reserved spot, turned off my car and read a futureshop flyer and drank my timmy's coffee. The first wave of drivers proved fruitful, and I found a spot in about a minute.
Good thing they didn't oversell those parking passes, reduce the reserved parking lots, and chopped a good chunk of lot 1 into residence passes only. Because you know, the reason people live on res is because they have a car.
Today I rolled onto campus at a cool 11am, thinking I'd just snipe to the back row and get me a parking spot. Little did I realize that the back row was completely full. Not only that, but there were about 10 other hopeless frustrated souls looking to snipe a spot. My usual trick of waiting near the parking lot entrance and following a person to their car didn't work at all - there was nobody heading back to their cars. I then realized the err in my ways. Today was Tuesday, a day which UVic mainly offers hour long classes starting at 8:30. There would be no student following until about 11:30 when the stragglers made it outside of the ring. So instead of driving around for any longer, I pulled into a reserved spot, turned off my car and read a futureshop flyer and drank my timmy's coffee. The first wave of drivers proved fruitful, and I found a spot in about a minute.
Good thing they didn't oversell those parking passes, reduce the reserved parking lots, and chopped a good chunk of lot 1 into residence passes only. Because you know, the reason people live on res is because they have a car.
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