He was a skater boy I said see you later boy...

I pulled into Southside last night about 9:15pm and as I was waiting for the electric gate to open there was this teenage boy skating Southside grinding the curbs and what not! I'm not sure how he got in maybe he climbed the fence, or maybe he was visiting his grand parents and got bored? Fortunately he went away not long after.

There is not many children who live in the complex, so as you can imagine I was quite shocked to see a teenager with his skateboard. However at the weekend and at half term there is an influx of grandkids who come over to visit, squealing and running riot all night and all day much to the annoyance of the downstairs occupiers. Take them out to run about for goodness sake?!

Car Park

There appears to be a constant battle of the visitor’s spaces in the car park by many residents who own two cars! Many households have two cars now a days and a lucky few that occupy the more expensive apartments’ in Southside have two assigned spaces albeit they are awkward spaces but two none the less! For the cheaper apartments’ only one space is provided along with three visitor spaces. As you can imagine the visitor spaces are seldom actually used by visitors, but the second car of whatever occupant gets back from work first! This has led to some of the two car occupants or indeed visitors for that matter to park in quite ridiculous places that are most definitely not spaces and make life getting in and out of the car park difficult for everyone else. This in turn has led some occupants to complain and now they have taken the hint with a little help from a letter from the head honchos. There is a small car park just over the road that can be used by two car occupants, which a few of them now use. This may be due to the letter sent out to them or it could be due to the fact that a few weeks ago the electric gate broke open and the two car people parked across the road because they realised their car was no safer in the Southside car park.

Talking about the car park, some of the fortunate occupants who have two spaces park in very strange ways. The spaces if you can imagine are one in front of the other or one behind the other if you know what I mean. Anyway some of these cars like to park so far forward that are only partly in their first space and have no second car, so why park barely even in one of your spaces! Some like to park their one car right in the middle of their two spaces just to show they can. Some are particularly greedy and park their car in the visitor’s space to save their own two spaces for family and friends coming round!

9-5

The first thing we noticed about this little community is that almost everyone works Monday to Friday 9-5 apart from the retired folk, this means that various cars seldom move from their parking spaces. This also means that come the weekend the complex is a hive of activity!

The Beginning

We decided to write this blog because there is just so much going on at Southside its like a busy shopping centre where everyone sleeps at night! In our short time living at the Southside complex we have come to analyse every little bit of Southside behaviours amongst the people living there. So from this day forth we would like to keep you up to date on the in's and out's of Southside life in the Southside Times.