Everyday, sometimes twice a day, I am faced with a decision that could potentially be life threatening. To me possibly, but probably more for the man. If you go to my university you know what I'll be talking about but if not I'll try and explain the situation logically. In order to get onto campus we have to drive through this rather tight gate and the man in the parking booth has to verify you have your parking pass hanging in the window. Mind you, this has got to be the easiest job of all time. No offense to those men, but they sit in a booth and wave at people all day. Maybe give directions or give a guest pass to every 23 cars that pass through. Usually you'll just get a quick wave if you have your pass hanging and that means you can just drive right through. After the first couple weeks I stopped slowing down when I drive through because even if they don't have time to see my pass hanging I still have it and therefore won't get ticketed when campus police has nothing better to do but search for illegally parked cars. This happens surprisingly more often than not or else I definitely would not have paid the plus 100 dollars per semester for a parking pass. If I was economically smart and financially set I would have paid the 175 dollar deal that was offered in the early summer which gets you a pass for the whole year, but what young adult thinks that way? Not this one. I wanted the pay the least amount of money as late as possible, I just couldn't justify spending that much in June just to be able to park my car somewhere. I'm a dumb shit sometimes.
Now I have to muster up another plus 100 dollars to park for spring semester in the midst of holiday shopping season. Sorry fam, you're about to get slighted. It may even be worse than the year I wrote you all letters on notebook paper because I couldn't afford presents.
As I stated earlier about the life threatening situation when it comes to the parking thing, this happens when I drive past the booth. The men wave, but I've found when I try to wave back sometimes while maneuvering the curve in the road that surrounds the parking booth at the same time I don't always feel completely in control. Yesterday I thought I was going to crash right into the booth. I'm not driving as fast as you may be picturing, but when you're driving on a turn and you decide to wave WITH EYE CONTACT (because a wave without eye contact would be like I'm summoning him to come with me or something and these are pretty old men who stand in the booth so that's creepy. Ok it'd be creepy no matter their age) with one hand there's no way you can 100% maintain TOTAL control of the vehicle.
I suppose I could just do a slight roll through the parking gate and I wouldn't have to worry about it. Or just not wave and come off as a cold hearted snobby bitch.
But I'd rather face these difficult encounters daily because they make my days more challenging.
If it's not that I'm basically limited to the challenge of trying to wash my face without soaking my entire bathroom countertop. Or trying to cut tomatoes without having every seed come out of the middle. These are the types of things I have on my bucket list to be able to do.
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