That wasn't the Parking Gods helping you out. It was the Traffic Jam Devils deceiving you. The righteousness of the parking gods will not allow them to help humans with parking, so the devils answered your prayer to confuse your understanding of the parking gods.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell