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You say that, until your destination is in the middle of a city center, with no street parking or dedicated parking lot. So you have to drive around desperately looking for a public parking lot or garage that isn't absurdly expensive, while navigating tight streets with heavy traffic. And which way do you go? You can try to pull out your phone and search "Parking", but the results are not always very clear, and it's dangerous to do while driving with traffic all around you. And, wait, is that a parking garage? No, that's actually a private garage for the nearby apartments and now the cars behind you are honking because you slowed down trying to figure out if you could get into aforementioned garage. And, boy, you are sure getting pretty far away from your original destination; this can't be right, certainly there's something closer. Maybe you should circle back and look again? But you're getting close to being late for whatever appointment/event/meetup time is bringing you to this area, and circling around might eat up valuable time that could be saved if you just went with the next available garage. Oh wait! There's a public garage! Oh nevermind, that one closes at 8 and your event will last beyond that so you wouldn't be able to get your car out until the next morning. Too bad you didn't figure that out until you were already pulled up at the gate, and now there's a car behind you, so you can't back out. Guess you'll just have to take a ticket and immediately exit. Oh great, there's a minimum $10 charge; but that's fine, you can just push that button to call someone and explain the situation and have them let you out, but they don't seem to be answering and now there's a car behind you waiting for you to leave and you're still running late for your event and you still don't know where to go.
But sure. It's just parking. It's really not a big deal. Who needs to look things up beforehand, right?
Been there done that.