An interesting article on Current Affairs tonight. If you can hold on and wait for a maximum of 6 minutes you can find a carpark in even the busiest Shopping Centres this Christmas.
Mathematician, Dr Cresswell has worked out, using mathematical calculation, just how easily it is to locate a parking spot without driving around and around.
She calculated that if the average time shopping is 3 hours, and allowing for other factors, then the maximum wait time in a block of 30 cars will be no longer than 6 minutes. So by just waiting by a large block of cars with a little patience, anyone can find spot.
I watched that report too, and it struck me that Dr Cresswell's car was the only one sitting in any given lane waiting for a spot.
Go to my local shopping centre and there will be at least 3-4 cars waiting in any given lane during busy periods.
Love to see her get a spot in her mathematical time frame there!
Yet another reason I don't bother watching TV - these sort of flimsy "scientific tests" that ignore THOUSANDS of potential variables and the intrinsic nature of human psychology.
I think the line in Jurassic Park about female dinosaurs is very apt
I watched that report too, and it struck me that Dr Cresswell's car was the only one sitting in any given lane waiting for a spot.
Go to my local shopping centre and there will be at least 3-4 cars waiting in any given lane during busy periods.
Love to see her get a spot in her mathematical time frame there!
They must have all watched her show. So while all people stay static waiting for spots, let's not change a thing and keep looking around
Not to mention that the waiting cars are blocking access for everyone else trying to pass or they insist on taking a spot near the entrance at any cost. Leaving the car at home the next two days to avoid carpark road rage
This is exactly why I avoid going to the shopping centres a week before Christmas and do my shopping early! I can't stand driving in car parks with all those idiots that nearly ram into your own car and have no respect. If I need to go to the shops I am in walking distance of my local one or I will just park in a side street and walk.
Been doing this since I have been an adult (physiologically anyway - waiting for the mental capacity to catch up) - I do ALL my Christmas shopping early December. If I have not got all the presents in 1 trip, too bad. If the food cannot be frozen or long term storage, too bad (everything we traditionally enjoy on Christmas Day can be kept for weeks prior - we make EVERYTHING here, no pre-made stuff). I bought the wife's and my eldest daughter's presents back on the 5th of December (right before my wife's birthday - 2 reasons in one trip)
Day to day food shopping can happily wait till near closing time. Aldi is open late enough.
If I need to go shopping at ANY time, I get up very early and go before the crowds get there-never a problem parking and I'm on my way home when others are just arriving.
looking forward to doing my chrissy shopping either tonight or tomorrow night. its so handy living in a society where all the organised people get their shopping out of the way so people like me can shop in comfort haha
Christmas shopping (other than groceries)? I don't anymore. I highly recommend it - no stress - the way holidays were meant to be! It makes Christmas more like the USA's Thanksgiving.
I do like to avoid parking problems, though, any time of year. When I lived in Sydney, I shopped at Neutral Bay where supermarkets were open until midnight. Often, I'd do the shopping after 10pm - that way I'd mostly get a parkng spot right next to the entrance and there'd be no queues anywhere.
Went out this morning very early to get some milk and booze. Car park was crazy even just before 8:00am. People left their manners at home. Got the last bottle of gaz from Bunnings too. No stock left. Be quick!
They must have all watched her show. So while all people stay static waiting for spots, let's not change a thing and keep looking around 
