Office Memo

Sometimes at work we get these notices from our Facilities department via email like "Lights left on" or "Flat tire". Yesterday I got a memo titled "Car Running!":

There is a gray Honda Accord parked on the West Side of the PARKING LOT with its engine running with the windows up and dog in car.

This isn't really as bad as it sounds. The funny thing is this is my boss' car. He takes his dog to work every day, leaves the dog in the car, and leaves the car running so that the air conditioning will run. Yes, he does this for 8 hours a day. My coworkers have been faithful to let him know how strange that is, but he doesn't care. But I'm also puzzled as to what purpose our Facilities department had in mind when they sent out the memo. Usually if the problem is a flat tire, then they let people know so they can fix it while it's still daylight or lights on because they don't want the person's battery to die. What's the purpose here? Take your dog out of the car and let him run free in the parking lot? Roll your windows down? Turn off your engine? Could someone be so absent minded to accidentally bring their dog to work and then leave the car with the engine running? You got to be seriously late to a meeting for that to happen. Why is "parking lot" in CAPS? Is there any other place to put a car? I should walk by my boss' car today to see if he put a sign up like "I know" or something, ha ha. Strange things happen at my work, but you already knew that.