NO PARKING

I live in the same building that houses my office.  There is a limited amount of parking for both employees and tenants.  Often, employees and tenants have to park on the street.  It sucks, but that’s just something I have to accept.  One thing I don’t have to accept is non-tenants and non-employees parking in the parking lot.  The fact that random people parking their jalopies in my parking lot reduces the amount of parking spots for people who legitimately need to be in this building only sort of irritates me.  What really irks me is that there are five or six large signs posted in the parking lot that indicate the parking lot is for tenants and employees only.  There is a big, two-foot, red and white sign at the very entrance that says PARKING FOR TENNANTS and EMPLOYEES ONLY.  UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES WILL BE TOWED.  In the event that you can’t read English or just can’t read, there is a big picture on the sign with a tow truck taking a car away.  Maybe I’m just really intuitive, but if I saw a sign like that in a parking lot I did not belong in, I would probably refrain from parking there.  Unfortunately, these signs don’t deter the idiots visiting the buildings on both sides of the office from parking there.  I used to have these cars towed, but the turnaround time for a tow truck is about 30 minutes.  Usually the cars are gone by then, and I am left unsatisfied that I was unable to exact some sort of moral lesson on the cretins who could not obey simple rules.  I’m going to see how much it costs to purchase a forklift.