Seeing this brings to mind a true story. As a manufacturers parts and service rep one dealership I used to call on in Manhattan had such a space problem they rented the entire 5th floor of their building just for parking (at five figures per month). That idea quickly became a nightmare. Shuffling cars up and down the freight elevator was intense enough until the freight elevator broke! The elevator was so old it took weeks...months to get the parts. You guessed it, all the cars on the 5th floor were stuck on the fifth floor! Talk about irate customers! Not the end of the story, when the freight elevator broke it was carrying an SUV. Since it could not be repaired while loaded, the broken SUV was pushed out of the elevator onto the 3rd floor into the New York offices of an international bank where it sat until the needed elevator repair parts arrived!
After that debacle, dealership management came up with a much better solution. If you were not able to pick up your car on the day it was completed, they ferried it to a local parking garage and paid for your first 24 hours of parking. The customer friendly part of this scheme is that the parking garage was open 24 hours so you could pick up your car at any time. If you didn't make it by the end of the first day, normal parking charges applied. Ahh, life in the big city! You just can't make this stuff up!
Lou
