Parked (for now)

It's amazing how a weird little thing can change your day so considerably. It's also amazing just how many 'weird little things' get put in front of you when you're a manager and there's no-one else above you it can be dumped on...
We've hit a weird problem with the layout of our main centre that probably wouldn't have been a consideration years ago when it was built. The problem being that we don't seem to have enough car parking space for the number of cars that people want to bring onto the site. I'm glad this has come up now, rather than on Good Friday when we're at 100% capacity, but I'm not sure what we can do about it, and I think it will keep occurring.  The thing is, we haven't done anything wrong, and the original owners, planners and designers didn't really do anything wrong either, it's just (in my mind) a reflection on the modern world. See, back in the 'old days' each of our chalets, caravans or apartments would be occupied by one family group, and they would all travel in one car. Nowadays, there are split families coming from different locations, there are group bookings with up to ten people who might all travel independently, and there are those couples who simply want to bring more than one vehicle. And those vehicles, generally, are bigger than they used to be. So the available space we have for onsite parking has hit its limits, and we realised today that - judging by the bookings we have for Easter - there will be too many cars here and nowhere to put them. So we're having to look at other arrangements. I've found an unused industrial building nearby where we could have 40 spaces and then bus people in, but Gavin is trying to avoid that one because it would cost money. We do have a large green field at one end of the site where we could accommodate a few, but there's always the danger of the British weather turning wet and pissy and bogging the cars down in a field of mud.
So it's a bit of a thing.
But, like all these things, we'll get through it somehow, and I'm indebted to Denise in the booking office for realising it was happening before it landed in our lap on a busy Friday.

I've got over the obsession thing, by the way, so thanks for letting me spill my guts about it all yesterday as I'm convinced that helped get it out of my head.

RC 22-3-24