Park(ing) for People

Park(ing) Day is com­ing around again and this time there’s some offi­cial sup­port. Wel­ling­ton Sculp­ture Trust is call­ing for expres­sions of interest to join them on the day. The clos­ing date is August 12th (sorry for the late post­ing on this), so get those idea machines cook­ing. There are a total of 20 loc­a­tions that will be […]

Sex in the city.….carparks

Today I parked in the Tour­na­ment car-park­ing build­ing on Mari­on Street and made the mis­take of walk­ing down the stairs to the street. Along with the delight­ful smell of urine, the stairs were also littered with used con­doms. Now, I’m really stoked that people were prac­ti­cing safer sex, espe­cially because I’m going to assume there’s a con­nec­tion between the num­ber of sex work­ers on Mari­on Street and their prox­im­ity to that build­ing, but really, isn’t there a more ummm enti­cing place people could go? I’ve also seen people hav­ing sex in the Lom­bard park­ing build­ing as well – what’s up with that, Wel­ling­ton? Is it the smell of pet­rol and urine that’s such a turn-on? Or are all Wel­ling­to­ni­ans just so horny that if you’ve gotta get off, you’ve got to get off wherever you are?