Volunteering - Working Parking.

[Pavan Dave]

So I'm doing this Volunteering thing at the Dallas Zoo for the Alzheimer's association called the Memory walk. Its another one of those run of the mill walks where they collect money and people walk (<-march would sound so much better (March for a Cure!) anyways...) and me and my group of college students get assigned to manage parking for the morning shift.

People can not park. People are horrible at parking. I may be working to become an engineer but by golly I thought people had the slightest of common sense. Also I love Tetris, so Engineer + Tetris + No patience me working Parking = H E Double Hockey Sticks**.

So people park and there are about 3 cars that park one after the other and like 4 big vehicles in a row have to reverse and park like 2-3 times (per vehicle) and the trend continued. Also there were placed where a car would park then another car would park next to it and for some reason some smart guy would skip a space and one time a guy skipped 5 spots like he owned the lot or something. I have so many parking stories from this day that next time I go to an event with parking people, I'll take 'em some Juicy Juice, you'd be surprised at how big of a difference that makes!

Anyways the event was awesome, after parking I saw these cool monkeys and elephants but the Tigers weren't out I was a bit hurt. It was my first time to a zoo in like 10+ years.

Then I logged on to VIMS when I got home and realized I need to register for the Dallas regional and thought I'd warn the world of CD, who are potentially Tetris loving, engineers, who sometimes have these leaps of patience loss who like to help out their community.

If you want to volunteer, don't be so quick to jump at parking. They play a mind tease on you with the cool walkie talkies and the chance to say "hey Goosey, this lot is full, time to move to the next one, over" and have someone on the other side say "roger that Robocop, lets jump to the green lot" but at the end of the day, it will drive you crazy!


You think Dave Lavery makes people crazy, work parking!!!

{GDC, if you work parking ever at an event, you'll have some crazy ideas for games. You think you own the loony bin when it comes to the sadistic nature of your hints and even more sadistic games, you'll notice there is a whole new word out in parking. Just a hint before you guys make next year's game. It'll drive you nuts, but just think of it as an opportunity to drive people even more nuts *cough*the mantra of people like Dave*cough*.}

You were warned!!!!


Pavan Davé


PS. Anyone ever work parking?