Parking Karma

It's not easy finding a parking in this town. Here in Israel, the concept of employee parking versus customer parking is just unheard of.
If you go to say, Target in the States, all the employees park in the back leaving plenty of space up front for the customers.
It's true, we don't have a lot of space here in Ra'anana. There are no 10 minute parking spots and of course no drive thru's. A store is lucky if it has even a few parking spaces in front of it and there is only one free municipal lot in the whole city.
So WHY oh WHY do the employees and owners of said shops park in the front?


The Situation on Brandeiss Street
There are exactly 7 shops on Brandeiss and approximately 14 parking spots. The owner of the frame shop parks both his black hummer (the wife's car) and his motor bike in front of the shop taking up 2 spaces. The art supply shop takes up an additional 2 spaces with their over sized truck. Avi, the hairdresser uses up one space, and Keren my nail lady is constantly calling the moked to complain about the frame shop guy, cause he parks where she wants to. I assume that the t-shirt shop dude and the photo shop park out front, but I am not sure. Out of the 14 available spots, 2 being handicaps, at least 7 are taken up by the owners of the stores!!!!!!!


So what about us customers?
What are we supposed to do? OK, so Keren IS the best nail lady in the world, but is she worth the angst? If you are lucky enough to actually find a spot on this Brandeis, its a total miracle and you may as well stay put for a few days. I usually end up parking outside Hamashbir. I refuse to pay 10 shekels a minute to park in the Maccabi building, but if I buy 50 shekels worth of merchandise at Meatland, I get the 1 hour free.

I think that from now on, I should just shop at the mall (or Ikea- plenty of parking there)