Don't forget to smile at your parking lot attendant!

 

The Parking Lot Movie

a true documentary filmed on location – some corner somewhere

available on Netflix

 

quotes from parking lot attendants:

"People were definitely considering the existential implications of the job which were ~ what does it actually mean? where does it fit in? ~ which is, of course, one of the problems of having an insanely over-educated group of people working at a service sector job ~ it's that they have plenty of time to think about it."

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"It certainly had an element of the sacred. We were like the priests of the Mayan temple. If 600 times a day you were taking a ticket from somebody, you had 600 opportunities to take a ticket from somebody with your full awareness and to really be present in that action."

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"This isn't just a job. This is a mission!  We will park them on the beaches! We will park them on the hillsides! We will park them until there are none to be parked!"

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BONUS:       Lots of free handy parking tips!

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Your parking lot attendant is there for you.  When it comes to parking your own car, he just wants John Q. Public in general to get it right ~ in the end, you know?