Alert! The City of Cape Town, under new management (see: 2006 Local Government Elections), is considering a ban on car guards, those mostly-friendly fellows who spot vacant parking bays and guide all-vehicles-great-and-small into them, then look after the cars in exchange for a tip.
In Your Correspondent’s opinion, the city’s move amounts to a return to Medieval feudalism. OK, perhaps it’s not that drastic - and, OK, Africa never had a Medieval period - but one finds it difficult to imagine what purpose a ban would serve, other than the dilution of policing resources.
Truth is, car guards are pretty harmless, tipping them doesn’t amount to much inconvenience, and my car’s never been broken into on their watch. SA Logue will keep you apprised of car guard developments!
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Why do we need car guards at a busy shopping centre in the afternoon? Since when have people needed assistance to find a bay or reverse? The mind boggles.
A Claremont car guard snatched R20 out of my boyfriend’s wallet as he was digging for change to tip him. If THAT isn’t ungrateful, I don’t know what is. Would a waiter, bank teller or shop assistant ever snatch money from you? Of course they wouldn’t. I no longer tip car guards. If they have the cheek to glare at me while I’m at the shopping centre in the middle of the day, I give them the finger.
My boyfriend got his R20 back by the way. He chased the guy with a metal rod. Never be afraid to take back what’s yours from those who don’t even deserve to breathe our air.