Hmm - do non-mathematicians "optimise" their parking? I really doubt it. I feel like the people trying to park right near the door/entrance to the shops are n

Hmm - do non-mathematicians "optimise" their parking? I really doubt it. I feel like the people trying to park right near the door/entrance to the shops are not "optimising" the time they're there - I feel like they're probably just being lazy and "optimising" for the smallest amount of energy exertion possible (consciously or not). After all, why walk when you have a car? They don't seem to mind spending time following people walking back to their cars, or just looping around and around, or trying to squeeze into spaces that are too small when it is clearly obvious that you can just pull straight into a space another 20-30m away without any waiting or tight squeezes, then spend 15-30 seconds more walking. They're wasting a lot more time trying to get close so it can't be time they are optimising for otherwise people wouldn't do it. (some people of course can't walk distance but then there are disabled spaces, parent + child spaces etc)