Car park news: January#1
15 January 2012
We don’t try and hide just how far both of us fall short when it comes to navigating car parks. Clients laugh politely probably thinking it’s just a little bit of well-rehearsed self-deprecation, a humorous aside to break up a discussion on weightier subjects … it really isn’t as one of the partners of our newest retained client found out on Friday.
Safe in Nottinghamshire I can still hear the laughter in southernmost Hampshire.
I knew the car park was going to present a problem when it got there. Long and lean with too many cars and an extra line the width couldn’t support. I also knew I should have backed into the space and not driven straight in.
To be fair the whole question of parking disappeared into the ether as we worked through a lively all-day session that covered the creation of a client value proposition and put the finishing touches on the firm’s new business development strategy.
It came flooding back, when I left in the early evening. I got in to the car park and noticed there were more cars than ever. There was now a Merc estate behind eroding the geometry supporting my hope of escape! What was I going to do?
I moved back and forward, shaving single degrees off the required turning circle at roughly the speed of a three legged mouse on tamazepan. Luckily (and I use the word loosely) one of the senior partners who’d been in the meeting came out and took pity on me, taking responsibility for the situation.
He did a sterling job and the volumes of patience he bestowed on me illustrated why he’s such a good matrimonial and divorce lawyer – this man could display genuine sympathy and had the type of tolerance threshold you’d usually find in the New Testament.
God bless you sir, if it hadn’t been for you I’d still be there. More than probably with the two trainees who arrived just as I began pathetically shunting the car back and forth still laughing at me.
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