’Tis the season for carpark calamity
MY friends, instigated by my boyfriend, once started a secret Facebook group documenting all of my embarrassing on-street parks.
So it may come as some surprise, especially to them, that I feel the burning desire to write this week’s column about inconsiderate parking behaviour.
Shopping centre carparks are a frustrating place at the best of times but when you add the festive period and the billion extra Toyota Klugers trying to do their Xmas shopping frustration makes way for feelings of defeat.
Here are some of my biggest bugbears. Stopping too early This is one of my biggest bugbears.
If a 90-year-old man has a trolley full of shopping he needs to get in his boot before he leaves be realistic about how long that will take.
If you stop too early and there will be a huge line of ON GUNNER’S SACKING OF KEN VOWLES
Michael Gunner – this could be your moment of glory. Get out there and fight. Full page advertisements in the on all the planned upcoming projects showing estimated total number of jobs to be created, plans for debt reduction, plans to rationalise the public service etc – Oh yes, and a scheme to attract self-employed internet-based workers to live in Darwin. They don’t need jobs, they already have their own. Traineeships to train up those looking for work in enrolled nursing, Assistants in Nursing etc. cars stuck behind you and your selfish ways.
Similarly if you’ve only seen a park once you’ve gone past it, it’s not for you.
Sure, life would have been bliss if only you’d seen it sooner but you didn’t.
Accept that it wasn’t meant to be and keep looking for the Be Innovative and Nimble – 10 new real ideas before 1st January. Show us that you can be daring, bold, imaginative, outside the square, innovative etc. Speculate. Make Darwin a Centre for XYZ topics. A National Centre. Attract students from all over Australia and Asia. Easy if you have an imagination. 10 new ideas by 1st January, make that 15th January. 10 new speculative ideas that might create new industries and sustainable jobs in the NT. Be like William Hurt in that movie a long time ago – fight the naysayers! Matt
Yes. The Gunner Labor Government is just a sample of what Australia can expect from a park that is right for you. Reverse parking Personally I’m not a reverse parker — as I previously mentioned my parking skills are limited — but I can understand the benefit of someone wanting to reverse into a park.
What I can’t understand is if you hold up a queue of cars because it takes you 569 times until you get it right.
If you can’t reverse in on one go, get out. Taking up two spaces You’re actually a bad person.
If you have ever parked in the middle of two parks you should be incarcerated.
Probably in solitary con- Shorten Labor/Greens/Union government. In other words: A Shorten Labor government will be a big spending, big taxing, big regulating socialist government that will all but destroy Australia economically and financially. Just as the Gunner Labor Government destroyed the NT Dave Wane
All of these lying weak, incompetent, never-worked-aday-in-their-lives people should be paid according to performance outcomes. Andrew
IF the 3 sacked ministers were to make “friends” with Mills and Lambley and form a new party, the poor old CLP would lose Opposition status. Rosemary
Congratulations to the ALP for lasting 2 years before the fantastic personalities came to the fore. While it will be fun watching the ALP Circus re-enact the CLP performance, there are more dire issues to deal with. I can’t get a job, my house is worth less than my mortgage, my rates somehow went up and as many long-term Territorians in construction have done, I am considering following the work south. The Gee
Mr Vowles was telling it like it is and not sticking to the official Territory Labor script that is full of excuses that no one believes. So, as far as this government is concerned, you have to toe the party line at all costs, even when so many in the community see it so differently. I for one am very pleased to live in Millner and be represented by someone who says what he sees honestly and stands up for the Territory and our grandchildren’s future. Kathleen
Ken Vowles was only conveying all our thoughts on the economy, obviously the Gunner Govt cannot take CONSTRUCTIVE criticism! God help the Territory! Annette
The dominoes are starting to fall. 10 out of 10 for Ken calling the Labor govt out for what it is. Annette