This semester I have the wonderful opportunity to clerk for a judge. I had my first day in his chambers this week and his legal assistant provided me with a parking pass to the court's underground parking lot and had me go and re-park my car in their garage.
First problem: She told me the garage was underground so I drove around the courthouse (twice) and could not find the entry to an underground parking garage. Finally I stopped and asked a guard who pointed me in the direction of the garage.
Second problem: The garage is NOT labeled. There is nothing telling you which floor you are on other than the parking spot numbers which were conveniently covered up with CARS!!! So I drove around only to end up back at the same spot! That's right I kept driving in circles because this is a 2-way street in this parking garage so if you don't know the precise way to turn you're screwed. Furthermore, you can exit and enter from both sides so instead of always going up or always going down the center of the parking garage is lower than both ends so you can never tell if you're getting higher or lower. Oh and to top it all off you're UNDERGROUND so you have no outside visual cues to tell you where you are.
In spite of those small (yet significant problems) I found my parking spot.
Third Problem: How do you get out. Not only are there no signs indicating which way to travel in the parking garage there are no EXIT signs!!! So I see a staircase which is marked "for ventilation ONLY". However, unlike every other parking garage in the civilized world there is NO elevator next to the staircase. So again, how do you get out???? I finally decide the staircase is my only mode of escape and the worst they can do is shoot me so I walk up them until I hit the top floor.
Fourth Problem: There is no EXIT on the top floor. Ironic though it may seem you don't enter the garage on the top floor you enter on the second floor (I found this out later). So I started back down the stairs when I see someone walking out of the garage. So I decided to follow them. (stalk may be a more appropriate term) And what do you know but they find an exit that spits them back out on the street.
Fifth Problem: Remember the security guard that helped me find the parking garage to begin with... yeah he happens to now be standing outside of the parking garage. When he sees me he remarks "So you couldn't find the tunnel to the courthouse?" I had to admit that I could not and was quite sure I could never find my car again either. The kind man gave me directions to the garage and I finally made it back to chambers.
So when I walk into the door, the judge's assistant looks at me and says "So you got lost in the parking garage?"
Apparently it happens to everyone...
Yes the possibility of 1-3" of snow is making big news. Oklahomans are stocking up on all the supplies they may need in case they can't leave their homes for a few hours. 
