[Noah930]

I thought of this thread the other day but didn't have my camera on me. I was sitting in my car in a parking lot of a local garden/nursery store. I was waiting in the car, as one of my kids was asleep and the wife ran into the store to do some shopping. A woman in a ML 350 pulled into the parking lot. The first "spot" was one of those 1 & 1/2 spots. But the full parking spot was blocked off by a large traffic cone. So the woman took a quick look at the lot, which was admittedly pretty full but you still can't see every spot from the driveway, particularly when you only expend 0.3 seconds to take a glance, and proceeded to slip next to the traffic cone, utilizing that 1/2 spot next to the curb to allow her in.

Now, usually a traffic cone in the middle of a parking stall in a retail store parking lot is left there by someone who works in said establishment, rather than a random patron trying to save a space, right? And usually people put traffic cones in places for reasons, right? But somehow this woman ignored this piece of (what I thought to be) common sense, took the path of least resistance and parked the first place she could. Or heck, maybe she's the one who left the traffic cone there from the last time she was at that store.