Size DOES Matter
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Y’all know I live in the country right? Where every second car is a 4WD and they actually see a dirt road on a daily basis. We don’t have a 4WD, but hubby has a ute for work. A Landcruiser ute. He’s constantly on and off construction sites and carting around all sorts of stuff.
On the weekend we took the ute up to our nearest northern city, about 4 hours drive away.
I am used to being in a vehicle towering over smaller cars when I drive. Even around here. But in the city there are so many small cars, we really felt out of place in our lumbering lump of steel.
In fact, when we finally made it to the shopping centre (thank goodness for mobile phone technology I say) we were hard pressed to get our lumbering steel ute in a carpark at all. We eventually parked 1,000 kilometers away from anywhere, and left half the car hanging out over the rear of the park, partially blocking the throughfare. But what are you supposed to do? I get that in a city small cars are practical, economical and necessary, but when you’re from the country, you need more steel to protect you from suicidal Kangaroo’s.
And here I was wanting to move to the Big Smoke?? What was I thinking? Where would we park the ute then?
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Donchya hate that?
I think that qualifies as a screw up too - for city councils everywhere
[...] Kin has something [...]
We had a hard time getting our Mitsubishi Magna into a car parking space the other day. Hubby reckons that car parking spaces are getting smaller as shopping centres try to fit more cars into the already restricted space available.
I’ve seen two different Hummers driving around our neighbourhood and a couple of times walked past them in the car park. They always overlap their neighbouring carparking spaces. Doesn’t seem to bother them though, they just take up the spots closest to the shops and us plebs just have to work around them.