verbosity9

Sprawling dump of a shopping centre with horrid parking, I visited today for the first time in a long time. Upon entering the car park, I proceeded to drive around for a while not seeing a single free car park and dodging all of the oversized vehicles that this carpark is definitely not designed for. I had to honk at a couple of people who were blocking traffic by both trying to reverse into the same parking bay at the same time, neither one was going to give up until I honked at them, thankfully one of them scarpered as soon as I did, then someone else drove straight into the parking spot. I ended up near the top of the parking area, after driving around many a far too tight corner and still not seeing a single free car park. Once I exited the parking area, I entered a small foyer which led to a stairwell that smelt of urine, after exiting that I found myself somehow close to Woolworths. After shopping at Woolworths, I returned to the urine stairwell and then to my car to drop off my shopping. I then returned to the urine stairwell and followed the signs towards Coles, including the sign that appears to tell you to go up, when you need to go down. Coles is a long, long, way from where I parked, basically in another shopping centre altogether. After shopping at Coles, I returned to the urine stairwell and then to my car, where I had to wait a few minutes for traffic to clear, before hearing someone hit something with their car very close to me, no surprise there, the accident stats for this place would be amazing. I backed out, drove forward and spent the next 10 minutes in a traffic jam due to the ridiculously poor design of the parking lot. Then I paid for the privilege, which is like paying to use the southern end of Eastlink even though you are driving at 40kph in stop/start traffic.