You an idiot.

With all the road taxes Car taxes license fees, Petrol taxes and everything else going up i tend to see them as an additional tax. I mean really how much do we have to keep handing out?? Robot begging? carguards? whats next?

As Caz has stated, Thers no way in hell he would be able to help you should someone come up to you with a gun .
Bear in mind this has happened to me lots of times where you drive in park your car, Come back and the car guard is gone… was he really looking after your car?

Also with regards to the so called “help” when reversing out of a parking… is he really helping you? or just waving his hands?
If it was not for the PDC on my car i would have hit many a car behind me WITH the help of one of these so called guards.

There is no Guilt on my side.

F^%&ING CHEEK!!! I had to hold my friend down while speeding away because she wanted to end his miserable life. So that little shit ruined it for the rest of his drunk friends who smell like urine. NEVER AND NEVER AGAIN!!!

I pay nothing now because if someone wants to hijack you or tow your beloved-automobile that ‘car-gaurd’ will be able to do NOTHING!!!

For small things, base paying the car guards on what you spent:

If you buy a coke for R5 and pay the car guard R2, that is already too much because you are paying him nearly 50% of what you spent. For small things, it’s not worth paying them. If you spend R1000 at the shops, then R5 is worth it.

Also, most of the time when running into shops you will be under 10 minutes. Don’t pay a car guard R5 then, because that means he earns R30 an hour which is too much considering you don’t really need a car guard.

Also look at what sort of service a car guard offers. At night it’s cool knowing someone is watching your car, but at daytime it’s not really that necessary. And you don’t need to feel guilty not paying a guy because he stood behind your car waving his arms to help you get out your parking place.

You probably spent about R2000 or R3000 and many hours getting your drivers licence, you don’t need someone to help you reverse out of a parking spot.

I don’t feel guilty not paying car guards at all, because like most things in life, we can’t help everyone. If you had to pay everyone R2 that begged from you, you would need another job to support giving beggars money.

I still think major shopping areas should employ one or two security guards with batons and maybe guns to watch the cars, as opposed to loads of car guards who we have to pay. At Pick ‘n Pay you as an individual spend thousands of rands a month, making Raymond Ackerman wealthy, so why can’t they incorporate security in their budget to look after the customers cars?

The corporates are more greedy than us individuals…

Otherwise I usually break off into a brisk trot hoping to outrun them.

Once inside your car you can just crank up your music and pretend that you don’t see them tapping on your window.

No my policy is nothing for places i frequent like the local Spar and at gym. If I’m somewhere I don’t know well and the guard actually does more than just stand there I’ll give him R2 and if there is some extra circumstance like its raining or the area is really dodgy and he actually looks like he knows what he is doing i’ll give him more to a absolute maximum of R5.

You’re right, he was ungrateful – I think he was unnerved when he saw where I stored my wallet.

Then again, the man smelt like deep fried onion, so he shouldn’t have really had a problem with it.

ps at R3-80 – thats R9120-00 per month (more than 90% of the population make) – ungrateful dog.