JILL POULSEN

finement because I imagine the other prisoners would take a particularly dim view of the kind of person who thinks their needs and paintwork are far more important than anyone else’s. The sitting duck Using a pedestrian to hold you a space and do your dirty work is lower than a snake’s belly in my book.

The amount of people I’ve nearly skittled because I didn’t see them standing in a park is ridiculous.

And you can’t even be mad at the pedestrian, you know they are doing someone else’s bidding and you’d have to be pretty cold-hearted to not take pity when you see the ashamed look on their face.

Dilly dallying once you’re back in the car

Once you get into your car it’s important that you remain aware of your surroundings.

I know it might seem like the perfect time to get your car manual out and finally work out how to connect your phone to Bluetooth or maybe you notice that you are looking really cute and should just take a quick Snapchat, but it’s not.

Get in your car, seatbelt on, and keep it moving. Stalking people Stalking people for a park is OK up to a point, but if you start as they get off the escalators, it’s too much.

But if you’ve started it as

“It’s very unsettling for people if they feel like an ASIO agent is driving around behind them in a shopping centre”

soon as they got off the escalators you absolutely need to wind the window down and have a chat about what your intentions are.

A simple, “hey, are you leaving? Do you mind if I follow you?” is all that is required.

It’s very unsettling for people if they feel like an ASIO agent is driving around behind them in a shopping centre.

I don’t have room here to document every single shopping centre carpark don’t but I think if we could get rid of the above it would be a very merry Christmas indeed. Jill Poulsen is a

columnist who will be returning to the Territory