Farty Towels

Image by rogilde via Flickr

If one was designing an underground garage to accept delivery vehicles and their deliveries, you’d think that measuring the length and breadth of said vehicles, allowing for their doors to be open and the manoeuvre of deliveries to the storage facilities, would probably be top of the list of things that the building has to be able to cope with. You would think that wouldn’t you? It’s not be being picky or anything? It’s not like being able to open the doors of the vehicle so you can a) get out and b) get the delivery out is something of an optional extra; the whole remit of the building is to accept deliveries; otherwise it’s an expensive collection of steel and concrete; or a work of Art if you’re the follower of the modern clique. The space now occupied by this pile of building materials could probably have been put to better use; a recreation area for the stressed, with wild flowers, and trees and birds.

As it is delivery men arrive, sit in their cab, ponder the imponderable, noting that they can’t open their doors, nor do they have a sun roof from which to escape. This leaves them two options, kick their windscreen out and exit via the front; or park on the near-by thoroughfare, which kind of negates the reason for constructing the building in the first place, not to mention spending all that money.

I’m not quite sure of the building firm that Basil Fawlty used to employ, but I suspect they have had the same guys in. Either that or the Building & Estates guys have got some issue which may need to be addressed.