One of the most important factor of a place you are visiting when you bring a car is a good parking space. Here in Manila, parking your car is one of those moments that you think is not a problem in the first place but it is not and eats a certain percent of your budget every week. Time for some little rambling and a slice of rampaging complaints from yours truly.
Meted parking means a new stage of cancer to your wallet
I prefer paying fixed parking rates because you can set a proper weekly budget for it. I always parked in Rada st. in Legazpi village, Makati City where the fee is only 60 pesos (around 1 point something dollars) for the day. Meted parking can kill your wallet due to your unpredictable length of your stay in the office or somewhere else. A good 8 hour meted parking can give you a 120 pesos (around 2 to 3 dollars) worth of headache but what if you need to give an overtime work, and god knows when can you leave from the office. The total amount of your parked can reached up to 150 or 200 pesos (around 5 to 6 dollars) if you stay beyond 8 hours.
The parking authority is not responsible for lost belongings and damages to your vehicle... thank you for your payment.
After handing a hard-earned cash to the parking attendant, they instantly don't care if your well cared vehicle is suddenly damaged by something like a fallen tree trunk or some idiot throwing a piece of coin from the top of a building. They will just also shrug if something's taken from your car, even if there is an obvious big cracked glass on your car and one of the car air freshener is missing. Its their responsibility to watch over your car since you pay them for the parking fee, which is someway is part of their salary. They even have uniformed security guards inside in the parking lots, yet they are not responsible and liable for anything, they are just there, twirling their imaginary nightstick and gossiping with the female parking attendants.
Parking spaces is very inadequate
There are obviously more cars than roads and public parking spots combined. With that premise, they must find new locations and ways to improve the number of parking spots. There are a lot of abandoned and dilapidated buildings here in Makati especially the one near Convergies. A parking company should invest on that building and convert it into a multi-level parking lot. In malls, they should divide it with 60% more on the parking and 40% on the real establishment, that is if that particular mall has a thousands of visitors everyday.
Douchebags drivers in parking lot
Like what I always say, douchebags are everywhere, even in parking lots. If you find a good parking spot and they see you, 100% of time they will accelerate, cut you off and go ahead to that spot. I just ignore them and find another spot which I highly recommend if you are still a sane and civilized person. It's better not to face them because who knows, they might as crazy as that Ivler guy. Let the douchebags fight with other idiot drivers since they battle for the sake of... fighting and looking more macho than each other. You go kill each other while I park my car over here.
Parking should be free, and lots of parking spaces, lots of it
Since you pay for the parking spot, and yet the parking authority is not responsible and other crap of your car, just make it free. The owners risked their vehicles from theft and damages so its pointless to have the space for you car and pay for it, especially if it is a meted parking lot. Since the security personnel is not doing anything at all to safeguard the vehicles, just twirling and thinking how bad ass looking they are, even if they look like can easily beaten up by a bunch of 8-year-old kids, just leave it free, as simple as that.
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