By Ember
Visitor parking is part of the session
A condo tower session fails in the garage, not in the workout, when the stall and the elevator code never made the ticket.
In a club, the trainer is already inside. At a condo, the session includes a loading zone, a guest stall, a fob the client forgot to leave, and an elevator that will not rise without a code after the front desk closes. None of that is the workout. All of it spends the hour.
Ember asks where a car can stop before she holds the time. "Visitor, level B2, stall is not numbered, elevator past the mailboxes, code is the client's unit plus star." That sentence is the difference between a warm-up in the living room and a conversation with a doorman who will not guess.
Early sessions make it worse. A 5:30 a.m. arrival hits a garage that is still exit-only until six, or a gate that opens for residents and not for a trainer with a trunk of bands. If the ticket says the client will come down, the trainer waits with the hazards on and the next address gets later by the minute.
Street parking in front of a walk-up is its own note. Alternate-side days, a hydrant, a school lane at 7:40. The trainer who parallel-parks twice has already given away the mobility work they planned for the first block.
The code was on a text from last winter. The doorman would not guess it. The session began as a conversation in the lobby, and the mat never left the bag.