There are many things that just seem utterly pointless and most of them tend to be surveys. For example, today we found out that stinky aromas are putting off a third of car park users. The NCP, who I presume are a car park organisation as Sky News didn’t mention who the hell they were – bad journalism right there, said that they plan to use this data to make sure that car parks smell less stinky. They’ve even said that they plan to use new technology to make these places smell like “roses, freshly-baked bread and cut grass.”
Here are the details of the survey they did to come to this amazing conclusion:
Of the 2,000 people polled, two in three said stairwells were the worst-smelling part of car parks, with one in three associating these areas with the smell of urine. Those surveyed put flowers as their favourite aromatic smell, followed by mint, cut grass, freshly-baked bread and fresh fruit. Bubblegum, coffee and even petrol were also considered favourite fragrances.
Do you really think that anyone in their right mind would want to kick up a fuss about the smell of car parks. I admit that, with the lack of car and reliant of public transport to get to places, I haven’t been to one in a while but all you could smell then was just fresh air. There were no bad odours like the urine of a tramp or a vomit of some club-goer the night before or anything like that.
Thankfully, one person has come out and said that attention needs to be put toward other things like security. Hugh Bladon of the Association of British Drivers says:
If that’s what NCP is going to do then good luck to them. But car parks are always going to smell because of what they are, big blocks of damp concrete. Stairwells particularly smell because people use them as toilets. Sorting that out would be the best way to solve the problem. The smell wouldn’t put me off using a car park, the price it charges to park there would.
I would like to know whether or not anyone thinks differently but I’m just utterly baffled that this is such a big deal for the NCP.
