Listing of this morning's Blumders:
- Drove into a parking garage that I could only valet in, but thought I could self park. Valet drivers gave me a strange look when I blew past them.
- Drove in circles in the parking garage and saw only reserved spaces.
- Exited the parking garage and entered a $4.00 parking lot across the street from the building where my client is located.
- Drove around the parking lot for a good five minutes looking for a space (now five minutes late to my 9:00 AM meeting).
- Asked parking lot attendant if there were any spaces he pointed to a corner of the lot and said a woman was leaving. I never saw a woman or a vacant spot.
- E-mail client to say I was having parking issues.
- Left lot located on a one-way street and could not get back to the building parking garage with the valet. I had to drive up two blocks, turn right, and then right and then come back on the original street.
- Entered original parking garage and valeted. Now over 10 minutes late to meeting.
- One minute after exiting car, realized I left my cell phone in the car (I thought I would need it.). I asked the valet if he could get it. My car had already been driven away, but they said, no problem.
- At about 9:20 AM, I had my phone and was able to go to the client's office, which I was officially in at 9:23 AM.
- I apologized to the client for being late and said it was due to a series of really dumb decisions and then proceeded to fill them in on the brilliance that is my ability to make decisions. They laughed, but I wonder if it was out of pity.
