At the company I work, we pay roughly $60–70 per month per parking. Multiply this by around 30, and you have a tidy sum of money pumped into an office park account.

I had to use the company pickup and collect some computer equipment we purchased. It’s similar to this one:

The last few times I used the vehicle, a medium-sized BMW SUV kept on preventing me from using the parking in front of our office. This SUV belonged to someone out of the company and I have seen it before in the same spot.

I had enough. Since the office park management weren’t doing anything about it, I decided to take action.

Parking a few centimeters away from the back-end of the SUV, I blocked the car in. The parking next to the BMW was open, and there was a little room to get out if the driver took around ten or fifteen turns and adjustments.

Thirty minutes later our receptionist calls me and asked if I parked anyone in. I say yes. She told me that the lady who owns the said BMW was in a rush to leave and needed to go urgently. I waited a few minutes, sorting out what issue I had to at work and then got the pickup’s key. By the time I was at the parking lot, the bay was open and the SUV was nowhere to be seen.

The parking bay was never filled by the same lady again.