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That's our lot

This weekend the family went shopping.  An event I try to avoid as passionately as I can because it is  not enriching but can be taxing.  Outside of what the state of CA demands in revenue.  It can take a toll even if you do not cross the toll bridges.  This is the non usual shopping - not grocery but more getting clothes for new school year and so on.
There is a good collection to choose from at an outlet mall in the area.  Here you might see 5,000 cars parked in a massive parking lot.  Getting one out of those 5,000 spots to park your own vehicle is the first part of this thriller.

An American parking lot outside a shopping center is a great equalizer.  A true level playing field as it were where $ 100,000 Mercedes competes for an open spot in a competitive style event with a $ 15,000 Kia.

Where people, complete strangers accost you as you walk in the lot asking if you were leaving so they can jump in your spot.  All manners of vehicles are seen circling the lot in search of yardage to park their steel.  There's a scavenger mentality out there like a vulture circling a dying rabbit.  Just finding a spot in a lot does not sound like a lot but like an ant remarked to its fellow ant in Pixar's 'the bug's life'  about a bug's life - it's not a lot but that's our lot.

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