Suburban Princess

This morning for some reason the parking lot at work was full, so I had to drive my sorry ass over to the overflow parking lot, and take the shuttle, yes, a shuttle , back to the office. (It's about two blocks from the building. A nice walk, but not at 8:30 in the a.m., thank you.) Well, my employee card wasn't scanning into the parking lot thingie to let me in. So there's a line up of cars building behind me, and the shuttle bus driver is yelling, "Try the exit side!" What the hell is the exit side? Oh, the scanner on the exit side of the parking lot exit! Well, where is that? I yell back, "I have no idea what that is!!" So the poor bugger has to get out of his shuttle bus and run over to scan my card on the exit side, which doesn't work.

So in the meantime I can feel all eyes boring into the back of my head, and all these people thinking, "God, get this idiot out of here, I just want to get to work," and somebody had the audacity to honk at me! The shuttle bus guy scans me in and tells me I have to get my card updated at the security office or I won't be able to get out after work.

So I park my car, and get out to wait with the other schmucks who didn't get parking spots in the regular parking lot. "Sorry about that everyone," I laugh, but no response. Hmph. Tough crowd this morning.

Shuttle bus guy laughed and said it happens all the time when I apologized again (but I think he's lying to make me feel better.) Got my card updated and was able to get out at the end of the day. I hope I never have to park in overflow ever again. I'm getting up extra early tomorrow.

Bex ended the show on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 9:21 PM | Permalink