Scenario: I go shopping with my three children to the Hyperdome shopping centre.
After buying my groceries and with a loaded trolley and 3 tired children I go to my car.
First thing I have to do is put my children safely into the car and put their seatbelts on.
Then I go to the boot of my car and unload my groceries.
After unloading I then look for a trolley bay to return my trolley.
“ Trolley bay, trolley bay where are you?” I ask.
“ Oh look, 150 metres away on the other side of the car lane.”
Now I have to leave my children alone in the car and walk the distance to return my trolley and then walk back to the car.
I come back to the car and my children are crying for they didn’t know where I had gone to.
Should I have left the trolley in between cars and stayed with my children?
And then the chances are that other cars will get damaged as the wind can blow the trolley away.
Solution: It should be mandatory for shopping centres to have “back-to-back” trolley bays, enough so that parents can still keep an eye on their children while putting the trolley away.
Enough trolley bays so that parents cannot be charged for being negligent by leaving their children alone in the car.
I have lived on other states and have experience by parking my car in different shopping centres.
Queensland shopping centres must be the worst in Australia for not having enough and safe trolley bays.
And to top it of many trolley bays have the top level higher than the lower level. Result? Trolleys are running out of the bays on to the roads. How terribly dumb is that? Dumber and Dumber.
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