i hate angled parking

having read jimithy's latest blog on money wasted due to the ineptitude of our government and their monopoly on the mail system, i got to think about how much time, effort and money is wasted on other things......

i understand angled parking when it is a really really tiny parking lot and there isn't much room but for one row of angled spots. i do NOT understand angled parking in a huge expansive parking lot like we have here at work, or, for instance at a mall.

NOT ONLY can traffic only go one way in any given isle which is counter productive, but when you walk across the lot, you have to keep walking the paths of the hypotenuse of every parking spot!!! FOR EVERY PARKING SPOT YOU WOULD WALK IN A NORMAL PARKING LOT, YOU HAVE TO WALK 1.155 SPOTS IN AN ANGLED LOT, AND YES I'M DOING THE MATH!!!

every time i park in my typical spot, i have to walk through 9 rows of cars. with each spot being 12 feet long normally, they are 13.86 feet long at an angle of 30 degrees. this is 16.74' extra i have to walk, 4 times a day = 66.96 feet. given an average foot speed of 2.5 mph, i spend 18.26 seconds walking these hypotenuses evey day. this is 1.24 hours a year wasted because of a damn parking lot!!!!

when we have our fire drills at work, we all have to cross the entire lot to the far fences. roughly 500 employees are here on any given day. the alarm goes off and we all march to the fences. i will not include this in my calculation since the fire alram is going off and this time would be wasted anyway which is a whole other story. however, when we get the all clear, we all shuffle back through the lot. 1.86 extra feet x 20 rows x 500 people = 18600 extra feet we walk collectively = 3.52 miles

This equals 1.41 manhours collectively wasted for every 5 minute fire drill.

average cost per manhour we charge to others for our services = $82/hr

= $57,810 the company is losing for every 5 minute fire drill DUE TO THEIR DAMNED ANGLED PARKING!!!!!!!


*this is why we write in pencil kids.... who can find my mistake that i don't feel like fixing?? who needs math anyway.....