The Central parking mall has come up with an idea to encourage something, mainly sexism I think. The third floor has been nominated as parking for ladies only.
There are three problems with this “initiative”:
- The third floor is the home to camera, TV, phone and assorted gadget shops, the least attractive floor for a lady (and the only one I will consider visiting).
- Being Thailand, everyone ignores the signs and parks anyway, irrespective of the sex of the occupants of the car.
- It’s a stupid idea.
To add to the patronising attitutude, the 3rd floor is the only floor which features a parking attendant (who happens to be female), whose job it is is to blow a whistle as you attempt to park.
She who must be obeyed needs no assistance with parking, in fact it pains me to admit that she is better at parking than I am. The presence of an whistling attendant had her muttering something along the lines of “go away bitch, I know how to park”; only in Thai, so to be honest I have no idea what she said.
So, Central does not need a ladies only parking area. What it does need is bloody great signs throughout the mall saying “Ladies, this way to where you parked your car”; if only to help my wife who is great at parking but who is hopelessly lost within 50 metres of leaving the parking area.