A Parking Lot Riddle

You can’t see the number under the car. Can you figure out what it is? Someone told me the answer before I could work on it. But a bigger question is: Since the lot is practically empty, why didn’t this driver choose the space nearest wherever he is going? -via Bits and Pieces

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Maybe the driver DID choose the nearest spot. Imagine that, past the bottom of the diagram, is a strip-mall (or mini-mall). A store about 1/3 of the way along the strip (say the 3rd store out of 8 stores total, going from left to right as you look at the front of the stores) would be most easily reached in either parking spot 87 or 88.