The idea is you enter a parking lot to grocery store, movie theater, or strip club and you want to park as close as possible so that you can get to where you going as fast as possible or travel the least amount of distance. As you go through the parking lot you have a hard time finding a spot and you have to travel to see occasional open spot. You think "so far that's the closest spot but there might be a closer spot. Then you think how long should I spend looking, how long do I spend traveling around the parking lot, how long should I spend planning on finding the best parking spot, and how long do I spend thinking about planning?
It's just fun conundrum that been going through my head that should have interesting answers and has lead me to spends as little time thinking about finding a parking spot and just find the closest spot that I can see and just jump out and get inside the store
Picture unrelated just a dog of I held onto till his owner came and got him
The actual resolution to this conundrum is of course: build more public transit and bicycle infrastructure, ban private cars in cities, replace parking lots with multi-story mixed-use buildings.
I realised recently that I have spent pretty much my entire life with a vehicle of some sort within a 100m of me.
I strongly recommend going on hikes in the mountains, ain't no car can get there! (this quickly turn into a problem if you break your leg or something, so be careful)
I do when I have time!