This is on instant download on Netflix, and a better preview is at http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2759262745/
Through interviews with former attendants who have moved on - you can see that their time at the lot has clearly provided rites of passage and afforded them Zen-like perspective. Most were college students while working there, some are still college students.
They study the art of doing nothing and the knack of getting even with rude, SUV-driving dolts who treat them like inferior beings. The gradual devolution from enthusiasm to resentment in the psyches of guys self-aware enough to notice it is an interesting process; in an attempt to distract themselves from the rapidly mounting bitterness, the attendants amuse themselves any way they can-stenciling random messages on the parking gate, writing songs, even dancing for tips.
They hang out at the lot even in their spare time, shooting the breeze or playing a spirited game of "flip cone," just because...They like it there. They conduct their own private "wardanquot; against the elites, the pretentious and obnoxious customers who park their BMWs, Hummers, Suburbans and other vehicles.
The film follows a select class of parking lot attendants and their strange rite of passage. The eccentric brotherhood of attendants consist of grad students, overeducated philosophers, surly artists, middle-age slackers and more.
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