Jamaica Gleaner Published: Monday | December 24, 2012 Home :
Commentary Lack of parking spaces puts the Grinch in Christmas
Robert Lalah By Robert Lalah   It was late last week that it hit
me how close Christmas Day actually was. The roads started
getting more congested, shopping malls opened later and the air
got chilly - Christmas-breeze chilly. There were also nonstop
promos on the radio for upcoming parties and every other
commercial on television was some sort of subtly erotic
enticement to buy overpriced perfume.  A fine time of year this
is. People generally have some extra money in their pockets,
families spend more time together, and who doesn't enjoy a good
Christmas carol and a swig of the old sorrel flask?  There are
some things that happen during this season each year that aren't
so much fun though. Like that timeless, nerve-frying battle for
parking spaces you inevitably face when you go shopping. What a
challenge this has become, in recent years particularly.  You
try to plan for it, telling yo