June 21, 2008

Time for a good Whinge

Whinge-the act of complaining.
This post is about two things that I will have a whinge about. One is an extremely negative whinge and the other one is neither negative or positive. The first one is a typed story and the other has been produced into a short film. Two treats in one blog.
AlbanyMegaCenterParking
Where do I start? How can I relate this to those back in the States? For starters the person who designed the car park should be hung in public and humiliatied. Secondly the person that hired him should be hung next to him and all those that agreed the car park was good should be put on trial to loose their construction license.
The parking lot could be compared to the model from Zoolander. It seems like it needs to be atleast six times bigger. The Megacenter is less than two years old and is the only mega shop within miles, so people come near and far to shop. The Megacenter is a mall with a supermarket and a Kmart, you would think that would clue the carpark designers in that there needs to be an extra ordinary amount of carparks to suffice the amount of traffic that it would need to manage. For an example the supermarket has sixty-one spots allocated to it for their shoppers... SIXTY-ONE? Do you want the supermarket to fail, go bankrupt and go out of business? Really?
In order to find a spot you need to lap the parking lot atleast three - four times minimum... it gets to the point where you start thinking that it would be better to go home than to go shopping. The only reason that we go to this Megacenter is because the supermarket there is new, clean, and gots the best deals around... for those reasons we have been putting up with that mess of a carpark. Today however it has crossed the line and we have decided to go else where with plenty parking spaces. After lapping the carpark five times we finally found a parking space on the opposite end of the MegaCenter. Did our food shopping and got the hell out of there...
So that is just the start of the Whinge... being a few thousand carparks short is a big deal, but what is more of a big deal is the layout of the lot. It is not the standard row of spaces all in a nice big lot, it is a maze of retardeness. Go down one aisle dead end, U turn go down the next one and it leads you to Hank in a yellow rain coat where you have to give the password to continue to the next aisle, make a left down that aisle and dum dum dum... dead end U-turn it around again. I think you get the point...CHAOS
The conclusion is that we are NEVER going to the Megacenter for food shopping ever again! I mean that and Leo and I will stick to that. I am sorry that the supermarket is going to lose our sales but they need to do something to help change that darn car park. So if someone that is connected to the Albany Megacenter or connected to New World Supermarket reads this, they should hear "Get your act together, otherwise you will keep losing customers!"
A ShortFilm
Here is the World Premire of "LawnMower"
Rating - M for Mature do to explicit launguage

4 comments:

Mom said...

I can tell it took you along time to do the lawn by the increasing shadow of the house. I use to use one of those mowers on my Aunt Katie's lawn in Hicksville when I was about 8. That was the latest model back then and we thought it was fun. Thank goodness your lawn is small. Love, Mom

Anonymous said...

yo Mikey that sucks ass! hahaha
keep it up, you will be better then the Mexicans over here in the states

Fran said...

According to my environmental science class we all should be mowing that way. NOT! Just think about this when you get back it will be winter.

Mom said...

why did you not leave the grass clippings on the ground? DAD