Bird’s Eye View

by Fiona Holliday

Have you ever wandered around a car park looking for your car because you can’t remember where you parked it? It can’t be just me, can it?

I was wondering what the most popular car colour is, so I Googled it and found that it’s white; of course it is!

I can very well remember walking around a car park in Hamilton on a very hot day, looking for my white car. I eventually spotted it, trudged over, and pressed the remote. Nothing happened, so I just kept pressing it like an idiot and pleading with the car to open the doors because it was really hot. Finally, after a few choice words and wondering whether I needed to phone someone, I glanced in the back window and spotted a box of tissues on the parcel shelf, which was odd because I didn’t remember having tissues in the car. It took an embarrassingly long time for the penny to drop and for me to realise that this was indeed not my car. I slunk over the few spaces to my own car.

Airport car parks are the worst, especially when you leave the car there for a while. I always think I’ll remember the aisle and space number, but days or weeks later, of course, I can’t, and I’m yet again wondering around a much bigger car park, this time with a suitcase, hand luggage, duty-free and a coat looking for my white car in a sea of other white cars.

I recently read an article filled with those super-efficient little things that can be of assistance when undertaking air travel. One such hateful idea is that it’s a good idea to take a picture with your phone of your parking space and aisle number so that on your return, you can go directly to your car when you’re all jet lagged and fed up. The upside of this is that you can be smug when you see others wandering around looking for their cars.

So white cars, we’ve all had one, got one, or are thinking of buying one. Don’t do it – get a yellow one instead.