Why is it that parking always seems to be such a chore?  Among my laundry list of irritations is the impossibility of finding  a spot to park your car, the risk of dents, and other people’s poor manners.  By the latter I mean that chivalry is totally dead in a parking lot.  When you do eventually find your spot miles away from the store, or wherever it may be that you are headed, as soon as the white lights go on for you to reverse from your parking spot, out of nowhere comes the line of drivers who don’t want you to back out.  Not only that but people are incredibly indignant if you even attempt to back out, regardless of the fact that you may have already been 75% out of your spot before they came tearing around the corner.

Besides the obvious annoyances comes the fact that parking lots have become something of a criminal hotbed.  Jrrobertssecurity.com describes, in detail, the crime proliferation in Wal-Mart parking lots.  An article from their website quotes a Wal-Mart vp of loss prevention as saying:

Three years ago management conducted a survey that looked at crime statistics for a one year period on Wal-Mart properties. The survey showed that 80% of crimes at Wal-Mart were occurring in the parking lot.

Also, in the same article, a criminal is interviewed revealing that:

“Like if I was driving and I was falling asleep, we would pull over. It was sort of like I knew that was a place that we could make money breaking into cars.“

“In fact, you slept the night and the next morning broke into a truck parked right next to you?”

“Yeah.“

“So, Wal-Mart is a 24 hour opportunity?”

“Yeah. We didn’t want to go nowhere where there was security.“

Just something else to think about when you turn the key off.

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