19 March 2019

Parking NZ Style

When it comes to inconveniencing other people, the Kiwi male is very good. Parking across your access to and from your house, in drive ways that others use to get to their home and garage and footpaths being blocked. All of this to save them walking a few extra metres. If you ask them to move, the reply is 'I'll only be ten minutes". If you say I can't wait that long, then they reluctantly comply, distraught over the extra minuscule walking distance they now have to undertake. We're talking a few metres here by the way. NZ isn't a crowded country with street parking free and parking spaces rarely an issue.

Anyway, I was walking down this road recently and found there two vehicles parked facing the wrong way (illegal in NZ) and also denying pedestrians their footpath. It was closer to the front door no doubt but the minimal distance saved makes you wonder why break the law to gain so little. Not to mention inconveniencing elderly or invalids.

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