Rant 42 - 11/2/12 Subject: Parking!

Rant number 42


An unavoidable part of owning a car is having to park it somewhere. At home, this means my parking space (which some fucker parks in infrequently - but I've already talked about that,) and anywhere else, it means parking on a street or in a car park.

The things is, that its all a bit of a ball-ache. It really is a conspiracy against drivers!

I would like to drive my car into town on a Saturday, I really would. This would mean that I could leave whenever I wanted to and buy large, cumbersome and hard to transport by hand items with ease.

But I don't.

Because it costs a bloody fortune! In our town centre, it costs about a pound an hour to house your car in a space that is approximately 2.5 metres long and about about 1.5 metres wide. Its bloody preposterous.

Going by this. This roughly 4 square metre space would cost £8760 a year to rent (and it doesn't even have indoor plumbing or a roof.)

As such, I walk down the big hill and pay £1.30 to get a bus back up it with the goods I have acquired.

I don't always have this choice however (the hill is quite big, but it doesn't lead everywhere I need to go alas,) and so sometimes I have to pay stupid money to park my bloody car in a bloody car park.

And these, are bloody awful too! Multi-storeys particularly.

You have to drive roundd endlessly, trying to get a space whilst glaring at the other people doing the same thing. Once you have located the space - its usually by a bloody pillar - leaving you to wonder if your car will fit sensibly or if you are risking your paintwork.

Now - I understand that pillars are an architectural necessity: without them, the above floors tend to fall in. What I don't get however, is the fact that they do not allow larger parking spaces next to them. Look round any multi-storey car park and I can guarantee that there will be spaces next to nearly all the pillars until the car park is almost at capacity.

Now, personally - I would prefer to park on the streets (and fold in my wing mirrors,) for nout. The problem is, that the councils like to make money from car parks. As such - all stretches of road either receive parking meters also - or are given yellow lines.

Should you manage to find a space that isn't like this, it will be in the kind of neighborhood you shouldn't leave your car - so you are buggered all ways.

It really is bloody unfair. Set of shits!

Rant over.