Roadguy’s boss just alerted him to this story from the Christian Science Monitor. The article features a Purdue researcher who estimates that 6,000 square miles of the United States have been paved over for parking — an area bigger than the state of Connecticut (or roughly the size of St. Louis County, Minnesota).

So with all that room, maybe it’s not so bad when people do this:

Thanks to alert reader Erin for sending in the picture last week. She says this kind of thing is a daily occurrence at a parking garage she frequents. She writes:

I guess when you spend 100 grand on a car, you are entitled to 2 spots instead of one.

The signs on the wall say something about reserved parking, so maybe the car’s owner did indeed reserve two spaces for it. For some, money is no object.

About the time Erin had her sighting, Roadguy snapped this photo:

A Fusion is somewhat farther down the food chain than a Porsche, but if there’s one thing that’s been known to cut across class lines in our country, it’s a sense of entitlement. We’ve got millions of parking spaces — why not take two for yourself?

Please share any thoughts on the Monitor article (or parking in general) below.

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