Comments on: Car Park

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:05:08 +0000

I never thought id ever actually read about some ones account of working in a car park, great stuff though ;o) , im a new driver and was looking for tips on how to drive down a multi (spiral kind) ermmmm sorry for the non car park discription but im sure you know what i mean.Anyway im scared stiff of scraping my car :O( and tips peeps?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:18:13 +0000

Re the 11 again: Heehee, fairy nuff. It is at rush hours they get astonishingly backed up, which is fair for a route that covers just so many miles of traffic-filled road, but no less frustrating. So the happy speed-medium only happens at some rare point between peak time and deserted-roads time. Ah well…

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:18:08 +0000

Pete – have you ever tried Multistorycarparking? It’s the new craze that is sweeping the nation…

By: Dave C

Dave C — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:40:16 +0000

Parking Attendant, now there is a job I can share some stories about. The time the flash tosser with a flash tossers car had a right go at me because he was well over his time in the carpark and I had the temerity to issue a fine… then he gets into his flash tossers car, revs the flash tossery type engine, reverses at flash tosser speed and rips the rather expensive electric wing mirror right off. Oh how I chuckled to myself as I walked away :)

I wonder if back in the days of the horse and cart drivers of said vehicles had the same attitudes as modern drivers?

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:22:43 +0000

Briefly…

I have to crdit Dr Zoop for Brenda’s quote, specifically the use of the word “Solipsistic” which he confirmed was suitable.

Anon: I only tend to get the 11 first thing in the morning or late at night due to the shifts I often find myself on, so I guess I’m not the best judge.

Paul: No idea. We (hey, I said “we”!) do write down number plates of cars that are unlocked or had handbags left on their roofs and so on but it’s not a regular thing.

Jez – such cards do exist but they (or should I say, we) run out of them quite quickly. I haven’t seen one but I gather they’re very polite.

Some more photos from Sunday have been added to Flickr. This is my fave:

By: Jez

Jez — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:00:56 +0000

Why not just leave a little note tucked under the wiper? Something like

“PLEASE DO NOT PARK HERE AGAIN”

could actually be quite effective. Alternatively, and depending on your mood you might want something more along the lines of

“This space is for disabled drivers only, you selfish tosser.”

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 21:27:24 +0000

Here’s a question: I was parked outside the Maybush shopping centre on the Birmingham Road, Stratford this afternoon. A man in a yellow hi-viz jacket was writing down all the vehicle registration numbers. Why? I wondered. I mean, if he was looking for cars that had been left there for a few days surely the best time to note down numbers would be the middle of the night? Or am I missing something (like he doesn’t work nights?)

I guess I should have asked him but, you know, I was one of those shoppers with an attitude ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:46:16 +0000

You’ve never seen 11s coming in threes? They’re RARELY LATE?!?! Don’t make us laugh! Signed, The Rest Of Suburban Birmingham

By: Marv

Marv — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:24:21 +0000

I so enjoyed reading this.

By: brendadada

brendadada — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:10:28 +0000

“Shopping turns people into arrogant tossers who are under the delusion that the world revolves around their solipsistic ego-centric arseholes.”

Lovely. :)