Dear Westfield
I don’t know what possessed you to put carpet down in the main thoroughfares of a mall. I suppose you thought something along the lines of, “I need something stylish. Different. Avant garde. Something that will really grab people’s attention. Ooo, I know! Carpet! In a mall! I’ve never seen that before!”
Unfortunately that line of thought didn't extend to consideration of why no one else had boldly gone where you were planning to go.
Unfortunately that line of thought didn't extend to consideration of why no one else had boldly gone where you were planning to go.
Dearest Westfield Designer, I would like to challenge you to push a trolley laden with a family’s weekly shopping and two small children – preferably armed with soft serve icecreams – across your wretched experiment all the way from Coles to my car. Then we’ll see how great you think it is.
That is all.
but it's easier on the feet for all the laps of the freakin mall you have to do whilst trying to find the unfindable.
ReplyDeletei don't mind the odd carpeted shopping centre but granted i haven't had to do it under the conditions listed above. is it truly that bad?
Yeah I'm sure there's a bunch of reasons why it's great but pushing a fully laden trolley over carpet is almost as easy as forcing it through wet sand and into the ocean. There's also that mental training of "don't eat food on the carpet" that compels you to rip the ice-creams straight out of your child's hands before you think, "hang about, it's a bloody mall, not a living room and if they didn't want ice-cream all over it then they shouldn't have bloody put it here in the first place."
ReplyDeleteJust wait until you're part of the trolley-pushing parental set. You'll get yours.
Also, I am reliably informed that people with wheelchairs also find it difficult. Doesn't help that it's quite a thick pile.
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