Man spends 6 YEARS trying to use every parking space!!
Today's topic is less angry-man and more confused-man.
Not only confused that 157 people liked my last post but confused because I read this article from BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56916050
"Car parking: Shopper spends six years using each spot at supermarket"
I wanted to know why somebody would spend six years in a car park trying to use every parking spot.
This image can be found here - https://www.google.com/search?q=man+living+in+car+park&sxsrf=ALeKk00ZAPkXQQsn3BdFTX0T92xUxIQRQQ:1619729093626&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWzIeKqaTwAhUbiFwKHUsqAOIQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1680&bih=911#imgrc=KF-jEteRLMpxFM
The title is misleading (which always makes me a little angry) and the shopper didn't spend 6 years in a car park. Instead, he tried to park in a different spot every time he went shopping. 211 parking spots meaning he went to the supermarket every 10 days. That isn't very often. If he had gone every 3 or 4 days or popped in to buy a loaf of bread on his way home, he could have achieved this much quicker. What a pity that the BBC didn't tell us about this sooner, I could have given him some advice.
Why did he do this?
He said he wanted to make his supermarket shop "less mundane" and he took his job very seriously. He kept a spreadsheet and shared his story on Twitter and now has over 5,000 followers. You can follow him here https://twitter.com/GarethWild/status/1386965962214289408. I follow him now. Perhaps if he had shared his story on Steemit, he would now be a millionaire and the people sharing photos of the sky would be very angry at him.
Luckily, his success has not changed him. He said: "I don't want to make out this was too big a deal". I'm not angered by this. I agree that it was not a big deal and was in fact utterly pointless.
What next?
After he spent 6 years doing this, I am worried that his next supermarket shop will feel empty and mundane again and I hope that his next life challenge can live up to this meteoric effort. What will happen to his achievement if the car park layout gets changed? Will he have to start again? The BBC usually allows comments on their articles, this one does not so I cannot ask this question, which makes me a little more angry 😠
If you have any amazing ideas that you think can compete with Gareth Wild (he's the man in the article), I would like to hear it and maybe you could blog about it. Or if you have already achieved your life ambition (like Gareth) I would like to hear that too. I'd especially like to hear from you if there is something I should be angry about because I don't have any good ideas. Which makes me angry 😡