This bloke spent six years parking in every car park of his local supermarket

It’s pretty nice to pretend that life is always awesome. Yeah, nah, it’s bloody grouse to act like everything we do is exciting and worthy of documenting online for the whole world to see, but the reality is that life is the mundane stuff between the fun bits. Yeah, nah, don’t get us wrong, we’re not being nihilistic or anything, it’s just that sometimes you’ve gotta do the boring stuff. Like going to the supermarket. Still, it’s not like you can’t make that fun. Just ask Gareth Wild of Bromley.

To cut to the chase of the matter, Gareth is, quite simply, a top bloke. He’s a man of dedication, he’s a man of research, and he’s a man with a keen interest in his local supermarket car park. That’s why for the last six years he’s ‘kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot (he’s) used at the local supermarket.’

For the last six years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot I’ve used at the local supermarket in a bid to park in them all. This week I completed my Magnum Opus! A thread.

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

Basically, Gareth was parking there one day, and in a moment of reflection, he wondered ‘how many of the different spots he’d parked in and how long it would take to park in them all.’

After quite a few years of going each week I started thinking about how many of the different spots I’d parked in and how long it would take to park in them all. My life is one long roller coaster.

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

From there, he set to work. Don’t worry, we’re not gonna go detailing everything and stealing his thunder, not when he’s already done the hard yards, but his efforts are a thing of beauty. They come with colour-coded spreadsheets and everything.

The orange boxes dotted around the car park are trolley bays, the black space is an irregular shaped patch which is too small for a car and is therefore void and then there are a number of family, disabled and a motorcycle bays. pic.twitter.com/EWJE2xOCYo

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

On top of that, he’s even provided a secondary map that highlights the best and worst places to park if you happen to visit the same supermarket that he regularly attends.

I do a big shop once a week with the occasional additional trip to pick up extras but a conservative figure of 60 visits a year meant that I could in theory have completed my challenge in under four years. Annoyingly a global pandemic slowed me down.

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

Yeah, nah, this is pretty f**ken diligent s**t, and not even a global pandemic could halt his progress. Give his efforts a read and bathe in the glory of a job well done.

The spreadsheet has been given a bit of extra razzle dazzle to spruce it up a bit for presentation but this is it, this is 6 years of monotony. pic.twitter.com/kjCpMXeKo6

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

I will now be taking a short AMA for all you car park nuts. Fire away.

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

If you like car parks you'll love donating to food banks, @BromleyFoodbank do amazing work across the borough and have drop off bins in Sainsbury, so why not visit the historic car park and do some good whilst you're there!

— Gareth Wild (@GarethWild) April 27, 2021

Final thought: There’s really not much to say here, but F**K YES, Gareth, F**K YES, mate! This top bloke award is yours. Enjoy!

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