Saturday 7 April 2012

Office Memo


Dear Anonymous Car-Driving Member of Staff,

You recently sent me a verbal request via one of the office ladies. You wondered whether I might park my Harley on a gravel verge, instead of taking up a ‘car space’ in the staff parking area.

The answer is an emphatic no. For lots of reasons.

  1. I’m staff and I need to park. That is what the staff parking area is for.
  2. There’s no dedicated motorcycle parking at school – simply a ‘staff parking area’. I park in a designated parking space, just like everybody else. Anybody else who rides a motorcycle is welcome to share that space with me.
  3. Piglet is a road bike, not a dirt bike. I am not going to try to manhandle 250kgs of Harley Davidson onto a small sloping patch of fine-crushed gravel on a clay base. You are totally clueless if you think that would be a simple thing to do. Gravel is unstable and slippery, and the clay beneath it turns into even slipperier mud in the rain. Given my history, it’s best avoided.  
  4. Said gravel patch is used as a thoroughfare by students crossing the access road, and I’m not prepared to leave said Harley Davidson in their path.
  5. I take up one parking space, which is no more than anybody else.  The difference is, I use single-person transportation. Perhaps there’d be more room in the parking area if a few more people rode single-person transport instead of whopping great 4-wheel drives or family sedans that are made to carry 4 or more people.
  6. I am usually the first or second person to arrive in the morning, and the parking area is empty then. Perhaps you should get to work earlier.

Thank you, that is all.

11 comments:

Roger said...

hehehe...well said.

Roger said...

hehehe...well said.

Tara said...

What a douche canoe... just ignore them Sue! If there isn't enough parking, they should get to school earlier, like you said! Not to mention, what is the difference, if you drove a car, they wouldn't get the spot then. What a numpty.

Geoff James said...

Sue,

Love it!!

There are some complete wankers about, aren't there - not even having the balls to talk to you directly.

By complete contrast pre-retirement, I used to park right next to our CEO's parking spot and he always thought that it was way cool to have a bike there!

Off to WA for 3 weeks tomorrow - hope you've laid on some good weather in Oz!!

Sue said...

@Tara - re taking the car (as I do on those days we have a late evening finish - parent-teacher nights etc - that's exactly what I was thinking! I take up a parking space, whatever I drive/ride. Douche canoe? That's one I've never heard! tee hee

Sue said...

Hi Geoff! I hope you have a fab time in WA - just don't go in the water - it's shark season! Is this your surprise 40th anniversary location? Enjoy!!!

Clem said...

Yes, definitely an ignoranus (ignorant *and* with head up arse) but I vote for your point 2 rephrased sweetly as "You could share my space if you got a bike too..."

KirstenM said...

hehe, well said!

Davoh said...

Am confused (as usual) but - when has "logic" ever been a high priority in Canberra?

Keryna said...

time to change your profile photo to one of you on piglet?

Sue said...

heh heh, Davoh - after hearing Bill Shorten's "I support what my PM said, even though have no idea what it was" gaffe, I take your point about logic and Canberra.
@Keryna - yep, really must get around to a pic with Piglet - he's nearly a year old now!