It's amazing how these useless people in our society who most likely smoke weed everyday claim to be somehow superior to those of us who just hold jobs (doing actual work) making money by earning it rather than extortion.. I never pay for parking unless it's a meter; paying for for parking is like paying to take a s**t!

My summary, "A film about otherwise unemployable misfits " is a quote from one of the participants. When you see the whole thing, and realize that some of the former employees are quite successful professionals, you realize that was just one man's view, perhaps even a 'tongue in cheek' view.The subject parking lot is somewhat small, in Charlottesville near the university campus. A ticket is vended as a vehicle enters, but upon exit must interact with a person to pay, the subject "Parking Lot Attendant. " The owner has run this lot since 1986, or 26 years at the time of filming.The films runs about 65 minutes, and is mostly very interesting, followed by 5 minutes of credits featuring a very inventive rap video on the theme of the parking lot itself, complete with broken wooden gate bars. It also has a montage near the end explaining where each of the featured attendants are today.The film covers a number of subjects but the one most interesting to me deals with how these attendants view the world as represented by the parking clients. Those who don't want to pay, or who vomit in the lot after a night of drinking, or the complaints about the big SUVs that take up so much room. Thinks like that.Truly a "slice of life" as framed by the parking lot and all that happens in around it. Good film, not too long, not too short.

I've never worked at a parking lot before but I've had a very similar job at a private owned video store arguing with customers over late fees etc. I'd sit there all day doing nothing - sometimes even sleep.It's amazing what people would do not to pay a dollar. Some one would argue in the film that she was only there for five minutes and would not pay the 1.00 fee. Someone at the video store would bring a movie back late and would refuse to pay a 1.00 late fee. It's frustrating but a lot of us have been there.My favorite part of the film was the parking lot crew's understanding on frat kids. How they throw up all over there cars drunk off their ass but yet somehow become our next senator or lawyer. The guys at the parking lot don't want your trouble or your sorrow. They just want to get through the day.Check this little film out. Grade: B or 8/10

This is a funny, breezy look at an odd little parking lot with an odd little crew of undergrads, grad, and grad students, all biding their time while pursuing their various interests. The lot is located near the University of Virginia and right behind a stretch of bars, which guarantees plenty of obnoxious, privileged, entitled jerks who drive $100,000 cars and are outraged at the thought of paying a couple of bucks to park them.The attendants deal with it all in a way that's quirky and funny. They're treated as the lowest of the low (some customers delight in pitching their payments on the ground; some just crash the gate) and giving out a little hostility as well.(One attendant always engages the emergency break when parking cars, ostensibly for safety but actually in hope that the driver will neglect to disengage it.)I saw this as an episode of the PBS series Independent Lens, and it looks like it was a somewhat edited version, as it ran under an hour. Still, I can't see how another 30 minutes of these proud misfits wouldn't be welcome.A good time, and a reminder that documentaries need not be too serious.