Parking my Viper in someone else’s spot

Yesterday, I was on Twins and a strange little thing happened.

I was instructed to park my car in someone else’s reserved spot. Okay, whatever, as long as I had permission. But I wasn’t assigned a specific spot, I was allowed to choose one myself. Rather than reading people’s names, or the shows they worked on, I just chose the widest space and shoe-horned my Viper into it.

Good golly, I felt bad for taking the guy’s space. His name was Bill something-or-other and he was working on the same show I was. Yikes! When I realized that, I was about to pull out of the space and park somewhere else, but at the same time, I figured that while I was on the stage, if I happened to hear some guy complaining that some asshole had parked in his spot, I could at least go apologize to the poor guy.

And then I thought about it… If I had a reserved spot and I drove, say, a Pinto and someone in a Viper had sniped my spot. Would I be ticked off? I mean, yeah, I was out a space, but there was a Viper in my spot–with my name emblazoned over it. Would that really be so bad?

But what if I drove a Mustang?

A Camry?

Some kind of Porsche?

A Ferrari?

How would I feel about my spot being taken by a Viper?

And then I got to thinking about disregarding what I drove. How would I feel about those other cars being in my spot…

And what if I drove a Viper and found a Pinto in my spot–with my name emblazoned above it!

Good grief, those thoughts fueled vacations from boredom the whole time I waited to do my scene. So many different possibilities! Half of which, I really wasn’t sure how pissed off I’d be!

I never did hear anyone complain about a Viper being in his parking space. Too bad. It would’ve been fun to see how he’d felt.

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