I'm fortunate enough to have a parking bay in the basement of my company's head office building. For many other colleagues it's invariably a daily battle to find a place to park. Before I got my nice, sheltered, always-available parking bay, I would drive up and down looking for parking, often ending up parking at a nearby shopping centre.

The parking bays closest to the building are snapped up by the few early risers - with the rest being left to park some distance from the building. Parking a little way from the building is good from an exercise point of view, but seriously unpleasant when it's raining or after your car's been baking in Africa's hot summer sun.