This one’s really annoying, mostly because 99% of people do it.

I often park in a garage adjacent to the train station. It’s a typical sort of a garage–you pick up a ticket when you enter, and pay to the cashier as you leave the garage. More precisely, you give the ticket to the cashier, the cashier tells you how much you owe, you pay (in cash), the cashier gives you the change back, the gate arm opens up, and you leave.

What really annoys me is how everyone spends an additional 10 to 15 seconds putting the money back to their purses/wallets/compartments or whatnot and then drives through the gate. If only they drove a few feet forward, past the gate, so that the next person can pass the ticket to the cashier!

Sure, it’s only 10 to 15 seconds but you can imagine that whenever I need to leave the parking garage, so do many other people who got off the train with me, and so the 15 seconds compound into minutes wasted only because people don’t fundamentally understand the concept of pipelining.

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