Random Occurances & Traffic Reports

What is up with parking in L.A.?  I mean, I know it could be far worse if we lived in San Francisco or New York City.  But in L.A., everyone drives Hummers, Suburbans and other large SUVs and trucks.  So why is it that all parking lots have miniature spots where only in a perfect world and if everyone drove Mini Coopers would we fit into those spaces. 

I was just at a Starbucks in the Valley and when I came back to my car with my latte, there was a Hummer parked in the spot next to me.  I couldn’t even get my door open more than an inch and a half.  I had to crawl over the passenger seat to get in!

At the Ralph’s at Hollywood and Western, the parking spaces are even narrower.  You can have two Honda Accords next to each other and still have to suck in your belly in order to squeeze out of the driver’s seat.

Why don’t they make the spaces bigger?  I know you can fit more parking spaces into the lot when the spaces are smaller, but they are unusable.  So what’s the point I ask you?

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