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from the guardian
A man has completed a six-year challenge to park in every car parking space at his local Sainsbury’s. Gareth Wild, 39, from Bromley, south-east London, said he decided to take on the challenge after noticing his preference for certain spots. “For the last six years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot I’ve used at the local supermarket in a bid to park in them all,” he tweeted. “This week I completed my Magnum Opus!”
(maybe the feller coulda added you know, shave, into his itinerary)
“It kind of feels like the old Panini sticker albums, but a really boring version of it,” the production director told the PA news agency. “There’s only so many parking spaces, why not try and get them all? “It’s a collector’s thing I suppose.” What followed was a thorough mapping of the 211 spots available to him on his weekly shop – with disability spaces and motorcycle bays excluded – dividing the spaces into categories A-F.
Wild completed his challenge on 24 April by slotting his car into F20, which he described as “a pig to get in”. He added: “I don’t want to make out this was too big a deal, but there was a moment of elation.”
A man has completed a six-year challenge to park in every car parking space at his local Sainsbury’s. Gareth Wild, 39, from Bromley, south-east London, said he decided to take on the challenge after noticing his preference for certain spots. “For the last six years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot I’ve used at the local supermarket in a bid to park in them all,” he tweeted. “This week I completed my Magnum Opus!”
(maybe the feller coulda added you know, shave, into his itinerary)
“It kind of feels like the old Panini sticker albums, but a really boring version of it,” the production director told the PA news agency. “There’s only so many parking spaces, why not try and get them all? “It’s a collector’s thing I suppose.” What followed was a thorough mapping of the 211 spots available to him on his weekly shop – with disability spaces and motorcycle bays excluded – dividing the spaces into categories A-F.
Wild completed his challenge on 24 April by slotting his car into F20, which he described as “a pig to get in”. He added: “I don’t want to make out this was too big a deal, but there was a moment of elation.”
