15
May


I was at the mall down from work the other day, and I saw this carpark:



Can they be any more ambiguous? Is it meant for all people? In which case, why did it need a symbol to tell us that? Is it for people who are either male or female (but not both), or perhaps people that ARE both, or perhaps people that aren’t sure if they are either? A confused trans-gendered person, or a transvestite? Do these people need special carparks now? Are we discriminating by carparks? Is this the evolution of sexism?


I worked myself up about it, I did. What could they possibly mean by that funny little symbol?Were they being horrible to people who didn’t deserve it?


In the end I hoped that it was someone being funny, a form of good-humoured street art. Hilarious carpark graffiti, designed to instigate confusion. Or that it was the local council or car parking company being idiotic again.


I still have no idea. It could mean anything, really. What do you think it means?


[edit]Other suggestions have been: emergency toilet parking, a muslim seperatist parking spot (because they can’t be seen together in public or something?), male driver, woman passenger. None of them make sense really, it’s so odd![/edit]

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11 Comments to “The Ambiguous Carpark Space”
  1. I think perhaps it’s a parking space for a port-a-loo…

    xx Dee

  2. Karl Elvis says:

    “Same Sex Dogging Only!” B^)

  3. That’s bizarre! I’m glad you got a photo of it… I’m not sure I could picture it otherwise. I have no clue what it means, but here is what my husband speculated when I showed it to him: “Maybe somebody was supposed to paint a handicapped symbol, but they got out the bathroom door stencil by accident.”

  4. Elly says:

    @Karl – ha, maybe!

    @Juliet – So bizarre! And I thought that too (about painting the wrong thing) but I went on a hunt. Further down that row they HAVE handicapped symbols, and mothers-with-prams symbols. And there were three ambiguous ones, three! I’m still leaning towards hilarious street art . . .

  5. Kym says:

    haha thats awesome! i think it might just be street art like you suggested though. great find ;)

  6. I’d go with toilet parking. Even though that sounds kind of nonsensical. So odd. If you ever find out for sure what it means, you have to tell us!

  7. Kyla Roma says:

    Ha! I love it – it’s like they took a washroom sign and just started putting it random places…

  8. Tabitha Blue says:

    I have no idea either, but love it.. hilarious!

    :)
    ~Tabitha~

    freshmommyblog.com

  9. Heather says:

    I like the emergency toilet parking idea! haha! I can’t believe you saw this! So funny!

  10. Heidi says:

    Hahahahahaha. You have no idea how glad I am to see someone else is completely confounded by this sign! Sadly I don’t think it’s some peculiar form of road vandalism, but is a proper parking sign, as I have seen them at several malls. I found that trying to work out what the hell it meant made my brain hurt, and I now make sure I avert my eyes from such signage :D

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