Monday, November 15, 2004
mayhem at the parking garage entrance
Of all the posts I've written, this is probably the last one I thought I'd have to update. But it turns out that the parking garage saga continues. As you certainly recall from my original parking garage post, employees of my building have cards that we stick on our windshield. Card reader reads the card from inside windshield, gate goes up, car goes through, gate goes down. Whee! Guests have the big flashing button, which, upon further review, does not flash. Nor is it lit. My mistake. It's still pretty easy to figure out, though. Push button, take ticket, gate goes up, car goes through, gate goes down.
Apparently the building people were not content allowing employees to get off so easy with the parking garage gate. So they changed it. And they took away our cards! Now we have to use our ID card/badge thingy. This doesn't seem so bad at first, but consider this process: 1) locate card that is attached to pants, 2) unhook alligator clip from belt loop, 3) worry that belt loop has been destroyed by alligator clip, 4) look up at road and realize that time taken to worry about belt loop has caused you to forget that there is a car in front of you, 5) turn down stereo, 6) roll down window, 7) stick arm out window with card in hand, 8) wave card around for a while until card reader is satisfied that you have made a fool out of yourself in front of security guard, 9) gate goes up, 10) fling card toward passenger seat, accidentally throwing card in between seat and door, 11) close window, 12) turn stereo back up, 13) drive away, 14) gate goes down. Imagine this process repeated ad nauseum. Now you have lines to the parking garage that snake around the block and extend all the way to Fort Worth (that's quite a distance, for you non-Metroplex people).
I think people will eventually get used to this new process, just as they did with the old one. Maybe that will decrease the time it takes to perform the 14 steps. But who’s going to repair my belt loops?
¶ monger187 wrote this on 11/15/2004
Apparently the building people were not content allowing employees to get off so easy with the parking garage gate. So they changed it. And they took away our cards! Now we have to use our ID card/badge thingy. This doesn't seem so bad at first, but consider this process: 1) locate card that is attached to pants, 2) unhook alligator clip from belt loop, 3) worry that belt loop has been destroyed by alligator clip, 4) look up at road and realize that time taken to worry about belt loop has caused you to forget that there is a car in front of you, 5) turn down stereo, 6) roll down window, 7) stick arm out window with card in hand, 8) wave card around for a while until card reader is satisfied that you have made a fool out of yourself in front of security guard, 9) gate goes up, 10) fling card toward passenger seat, accidentally throwing card in between seat and door, 11) close window, 12) turn stereo back up, 13) drive away, 14) gate goes down. Imagine this process repeated ad nauseum. Now you have lines to the parking garage that snake around the block and extend all the way to Fort Worth (that's quite a distance, for you non-Metroplex people).
I think people will eventually get used to this new process, just as they did with the old one. Maybe that will decrease the time it takes to perform the 14 steps. But who’s going to repair my belt loops?
¶ monger187 wrote this on 11/15/2004
