Underground parking Hell!

It is just as well that we think of Hell as a place that is underground. It can also be above ground in high rise parking lots because with the size of today's cars it is becoming ever more difficult to park and leave without scraping the sides of your car. To make matters worse every exit it seems has to be on a bend. I have only once scraped my car and I still have the proof.

To begin with, many parking buildings were not purpose built, so we are expected to drive our cars up and down stairs where before people walked. For small cars there is usually not too much of a problem, except some bloody genius has seen fit to place pavement-like concrete high enough so that as you try to get close enough to reach the reader you scrape the side of your car just where it is the most difficult to repair. Bloody idiots!

My Volvo is a sedan. I have come back to it after having parked and found a car that has come in and is now my neighbour that is so large and high I feel as though I am in a toy car. Who needs such massive machines? Just taking the kids to school, these surely are not necessary? I suppose it could be argued that they serve well for defense as I think should I encounter one head-on, send my ashes home.

Then there is always the problem of the people who park so badly that they take up two spaces. Man, the urge to kill when only strangulation will do becomes so strong. How can we be so selfish. When I come into contact with such stupidity I get dizzy.

I have a GJX Jaguar Sovereign that is a long car that I avoid parking in underground or multi-floor car parks. I park only in open air ground level parking areas which provide me enough problems. The next challenge will be those elite cars that drive and park themselves, I'm hopeful that they will solve a lot of the problems that presently exist due to our own stupidity, but as long as we will have a mix of people and robot drivers I can only see a brand new lot of difficulties over the transition period.

Good luck to us all as we will need it!

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Eugene Carmichael