We went to town yesterday. It was alright - other than the ludicrous decision they’ve made to force people to pay for car parking online.
It seems amazing to me. Town centres are declining thanks to online shopping, yet the rents shops pay to landowners are going up. So it’s literally becoming more expensive to do so something less desirable. On top of that, you can’t put coins in a machine and get a parking ticket out any more. You can’t even swipe a contactless card and get your bank to do it for you either. No, you have to use an app, or the Internet. Call me old-fashioned, but that’s just annoying, isn’t it?
I saw a man who looked exactly like Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park - you know the computer guy who turns off the power and gets eaten by a dilophosaurus? He was having a coffee in Starbucks, not, it turned out with Dodgson. Dodgson! Dodgson! We got Dodgson over here! No. His companion was a lady. I found myself wondering whether other people had ever told him the likeness. I bet they had.
Some of the larger shops are turning into flats apparently. One day, town will just be flats and coffee shops, I reckon. Flats, coffee shops and gyms, for those who’ve done all their shopping from their sofa and (ironically) need to lose a few pounds. Progress.
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