I've got a PITA day coming up today. A niece is graduating from high school. There's a family party at her house in the afternoon and the ceremony at her school in the evening.
Wouldn't be too bad except it's Indy 500 month, qualification day today, and she lives near the track. All street parking is banned for miles around. If you don't have a driveway or front yard you can get a special permit to park outside your house. Her family house has a large front yard so we all get an allocated parking place. And driving is a mess so we have to go super early.
Then go home for a few hours and drive out again. That will be even worse because the trackers will be leaving as we arrive. They change all the traffic rules. Most streets near the track become one way with cops everywhere. The locals get used to not going out much during May. And a good % of the visitors get track wild. The streets and main artery roads turn into racetracks for a month.
The house is in walking distance of the track and normally they make a bunch of money renting their yard to visitors with mobile homes in May. Normally that would be illegal but the race is a big earner for the City so all the rules change.
I only went to the race once. A bunch of us got together and ordered a bus which picked us up from a parking lot miles away, took us to the track and picked us up afterwards. Expensive but we avoided the driving hell.