Vince Maskeeper
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A Chipotle Restaurant Here in Kent has Accidentally Created An IQ Test!
The restaurant is situated on a state route, a busy road. The driveway for the place is a loop around that is one way, it loops you to the back of the restaurant (where there are a number of parking spaces), and back out to the road (along the driveway on the way out are some additional parking spots).
When you enter however- there is an interesting area...
On the right is a fence, just beyond that fence is a pizza place next door. Because of fire codes, the area right against the side of the pizza place is a fire lane- and thus cannot be a parking area. So the Chipotle people marked off the area with a striped box that says NO PARKING.
But, this created the IQ test. You see, the stripes are approximately the size of a parking space (actually a good foot too narrow and about a foot too shallow if you really pay attention)-- and since the NO PARKING message only appears every so often- people are actually parking in the narrow striped areas between the words NO PARKING.
Despite being clearly marked off as shown in the diagram above, people still seem to think as long as they don't park on the actual WORDS "no parking", that it's fine.
I've been tempted to do one of two things:
1) Try to figure out what these people THINK is going on-- Stand around outside and wait for people to come back to their cars, and ask them why, exactly, they would figure the parking lot would have a couple of small squares they couldn't park within, but could park next to.
2) Come up with a small slip of paper congratulating them for failing the Chipotle IQ test, and pointing them to a website which laughs at them mercilessly.
Every time I go to get a burrito and see one or two people parked in these skinny striped spots between the GIANT words no parking- very careful to not actually park on the words themselves, and it makes me laugh.
-Vince
The restaurant is situated on a state route, a busy road. The driveway for the place is a loop around that is one way, it loops you to the back of the restaurant (where there are a number of parking spaces), and back out to the road (along the driveway on the way out are some additional parking spots).
When you enter however- there is an interesting area...
On the right is a fence, just beyond that fence is a pizza place next door. Because of fire codes, the area right against the side of the pizza place is a fire lane- and thus cannot be a parking area. So the Chipotle people marked off the area with a striped box that says NO PARKING.
But, this created the IQ test. You see, the stripes are approximately the size of a parking space (actually a good foot too narrow and about a foot too shallow if you really pay attention)-- and since the NO PARKING message only appears every so often- people are actually parking in the narrow striped areas between the words NO PARKING.
Despite being clearly marked off as shown in the diagram above, people still seem to think as long as they don't park on the actual WORDS "no parking", that it's fine.
I've been tempted to do one of two things:
1) Try to figure out what these people THINK is going on-- Stand around outside and wait for people to come back to their cars, and ask them why, exactly, they would figure the parking lot would have a couple of small squares they couldn't park within, but could park next to.
2) Come up with a small slip of paper congratulating them for failing the Chipotle IQ test, and pointing them to a website which laughs at them mercilessly.
Every time I go to get a burrito and see one or two people parked in these skinny striped spots between the GIANT words no parking- very careful to not actually park on the words themselves, and it makes me laugh.
-Vince