"Rules"!

A small (made_huge) incidence happened today morning. It's my Day-9 at Sybase and Day-7 to park in the company parking. As usual, I drove in at the parking security area anticipating usual sequence of security check - I will open my bag, the security lady will check it, then she will check pep+'s dickie and then I'll flash my campus access card and I'll go in and park pep+. But, as soon as I entered the area, the security guy stopped me. It went on like this-
He: "You don't have sticker for cybercity. You can't park in here."
I: "Which sticker?"
He: "Sticker that every vehicle has. You don't have it. You can't park in here."
I: "How am I supposed to know about the sticker?"
He: "Everyone knows about it. Didn't you get the mail?"
I: "No, I did not. And I don't know anything about it. Let me park in."
He: "Take your vehicle on one side. It's blocking other vehicles."

I did as he said. By the time I moved, the other lady (who checks my bag and all, every day) started.
She: "You can't park. You don't have sticker."
I: "Right you are. But, Nobody gave me sticker. Tell me whom to collect it from. I'll do that asap."
She: "No, it's been 4-5 months now, you should have had it on your vehicle by now."

This sentence hit me.
I: "What! I joined last Monday! Which 4-5 months you are talking about?"

But, somehow I could not stand there. May be, I felt insulted. I don't know. Without speaking a word, I took my pep+ off the security area; Crossed the road and parked in Pay_and_Park area.

Later I felt like crying. I probably did.

I decided to complain about those two security guards when I'm going to collect the sticker. Only then I could feel better.

But, the Q still remains. Was it my fault? No. I was not aware of it. Neither I got any mail about it. Was it their fault? No. They were doing their assigned duty. But, probably yes. Is that a way to talk? What was insulting to me? Of course NOT that I had to park in Pay_and_Park. Those 5 bucks don't cost me much. But, the way they interacted. But, what if say, instead of me, there was a terrorist who had stolen the access card from someone and is trying to park a vehicle, say with a bomb? Not very surprising, these days. Then, in that scenario, what they did - was right.

My morning was spoiled; (Or did I myself spoil it by thinking too much?)

So, to keep myself cool, I decided as follows-
1. May be I have similar looks as that of a terrorist. So, they did not trust me.
2. I will complain about them when I'll go collect sticker.
3. Next time I won't cry.
4. I am strong enough. I should have stood there itself to prove my point. But, don't I have work? Why should I prove myself to those security guards? huh!
5. Write a blog post. Clear my mind and start working.