free4now
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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not rocket science but this is serious. this is parking war.
circling or, um, stalling is just a matter of music chairs. good luck with that. but waiting at the end of an aisle is no claim to every spot that might open up from one end of the parking lot to the other.
trump goes to the stalker, not to the lurker. they're on recon; you're just in ambush. the lurker waits for any spot but the stalker goes after a specific stall, his rights to the space empowered by the narrow scope of his targeting. you might get lucky by blanketing the entire lot but a sharp shooter will take you out everytime.
That doesn't sound like etiquette, sounds like anarchy, whoever gets there first wins . But maybe this was my mistake, to believe that etiquette would have relevance on a community college campus.O0 Maybe this is one of those wars where "the only way win is not to play".
One problem with the stalker approach is that if you follow someone too closely you usually won't be in a good position to actually take the spot itself. What actually happened to me the other day was that stalker-guy couldn't get into the spot he stalked because he had actually overshot and would have needed to back up to get into the head-in spot.