Do you use parent and child spaces without children?

[Potatoes]

DonkeyApple said:

JagXJR said:

I appreciate the peace-keeping gesture MonkeyLegend but since well over 90% of the posters disagree with PurpleMoonlight, in a democracy he is wrong.

If he does not want to be wrong he (an assumption) could always move to a dictatorship. Don't think that will happen as bad things tend to happen to opposers of the system there.

PurpleMoonlight what are you trying to achieve here?

A supermarket is a commercial entity, of course everything including P&C spaces are going to be commercial decisions therefore. It's not about you, or denying you anything. It is about providing benefit to those who need it more than you. Surely you see this?

I wonder what is your agenda with all this effort, even more surprising given that you say you don't use these spaces during the day?

He's probably at Tescos raging at the abject discrimination of Tampax.

And getting some more chips to put on his shoulder

[Vipers]

jbsportstech said:

I think anything posted now has been done to death..

Yup, but guaranteed another 30 odd pages at least.

[Ilovejapcrap]

JagXJR said:

xRIEx said:

PurpleMoonlight said:

yonex said:

You can't teach a pig to dance

When all else fails, resort to personal insults I see ....

It wasn't an insult, it was a metaphorical aphorism.

Thanks, learnt a new word today. who said this thread was a waste of time? lol

I read this and learnt the word pig

[Troubleatmill]

So... in summary:

Man A (Let's call him Morrison) owns some land - and when people visit him he has some simple and rational rules about who can park where.

Man B (Let's call him car driver) does not own the land - but wants to visit Morrison - and takes umbrage at said rules - and choses to ignore them.

Many people support Man A (after all it is his land).

Few people support Man B

[RYH64E]

Troubleatmill said:

So... in summary:

Man A (Let's call him Morrison) owns some land - and when people visit him he has some simple and rational rules about who can park where.

Man B (Let's call him car driver) does not own the land - but wants to visit Morrison - and takes umbrage at said rules - and choses to ignore them.

Many people support Man A (after all it is his land).

Few people support Man B

And everyone hates Man U .

[405dogvan]

You can take your summary outside of the supermarket carpark - because people don't give a damn what is/isn't against the law, they only care what they're likely to be called-out/shamed/punished for.

There are many things which are against some sort of rules - many are even technically illegal - but they are seldom punished and so people just don't care.

I recently discovered a lot of people believe parking rules like double-yellows and even zigzags only apply until 6pm (presumably when the traffic warden stops work)!!

Dropping litter/not pick-up after your dog is illegal everywhere but it's hugely widespread because it's almost never punished.

I've heard very wealthy people see tax as an optional rule

Indeed - people even get resentful if they get caught because "other people get away with it"

So the solution is instant execution - only way to be sure, right?

[funkyrobot]

405dogvan said:

You can take your summary outside of the supermarket carpark - because people don't give a damn what is/isn't against the law, they only care what they're likely to be called-out/shamed/punished for.

There are many things which are against some sort of rules - many are even technically illegal - but they are seldom punished and so people just don't care.

I recently discovered a lot of people believe parking rules like double-yellows and even zigzags only apply until 6pm (presumably when the traffic warden stops work)!!

Dropping litter/not pick-up after your dog is illegal everywhere but it's hugely widespread because it's almost never punished.

I've heard very wealthy people see tax as an optional rule

Indeed - people even get resentful if they get caught because "other people get away with it"

So the solution is instant execution - only way to be sure, right?

Throwing discarded cigarette butts on the floor seems to be an 'acceptable' form of littering.

Is spitting against the law? Lots of people in my local town seem to like covering the pavements in their phlegm.

[Blakewater]

Monkeylegend said:

DonkeyApple said:

Blakewater said:

Not a supermarket car park, but my local garden centre has made it's spaces extra wide for the old folk to manoeuvre in and out of.

A good example of a commercial business designing its carpark to benefit its most important customers. It's good to see smaller businesses learning from the multinationals about how to maximise client spending. About time.

And painting the trees in bright colours so us old fogeys can see them.

They light up and change colour.



It's Barton Grange near Preston. They have had to build an overflow car park which a supermarket with more restricted space won't be able to do. Whether you're at a garden centre or a supermarket, people will be carrying large and awkward loads to their cars though.

[RYH64E]

Blakewater said:

It's Barton Grange near Preston. They have had to build an overflow car park which a supermarket with more restricted space won't be able to do. Whether you're at a garden centre or a supermarket, people will be carrying large and awkward loads to their cars though.

Their carpark their choice, where have we heard that before?

[Vipers]

DonkeyApple said:

As it stands, spaces at the majority of supermarkets are absolutely fine and I'm sure that actually a lot of thought goes into maximising the spaces available v still being useable.

And we need people to engage brain before abandoning their chariots, simple. Sorted.

[Toaster]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/24/mum-par...

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[Vipers]

Toaster said:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/24/mum-par...

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Good for her, well done.

[Martin_M]

Vipers said:

Toaster said:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/24/mum-par...

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Good for her, well done.

Indeed, but disappointed to read that Sainsburys didn't support the woman.

[blueg33]

Martin_M said:

Vipers said:

Toaster said:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/24/mum-par...

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Good for her, well done.

Indeed, but disappointed to read that Sainsburys didn't support the woman.

Something doesn't add up. The sainsburys quote seems irrelevant to what they actually did.

[JonoG81]

Siko said:

Most of the people I see using (wrongly) disabled or parent and child spaces would benefit from the exercise of using a space a bit further away

nail.head.

Too bone idle and lazy to walk an extra 50 feet, fat fers

[Pistom]

I never park in parent and child spaces even if I've got kids with me for the simple reason that I always feel others probably need them more.

I would however like to see some premium spaces which you pay for which are wider and closer to the store entrance for those with larger cars or those who are concerned about doors being opened onto their pride and joy.

[9mm]

Toaster said:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/24/mum-par...

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Rough looking tart with appalling dress sense, a st car and an even crappier house. Customary media scowl.

What more can you say?

[Hamish Finn]

9mm said:

and an even crappier house.

Presumably you live in Downton Abbey?

Post a pic of your house please.

[anonymous-user]

9mm said:

Rough looking tart with appalling dress sense, a st car and an even crappier house. Customary media scowl.

What more can you say?

That the guy who parked in the space was a cock and that a cock and a tart don't mix to make anything worthwhile?

I don't understand why the supermarkets don't employ a scamera and fine those who can't make the simple and correct choices when they park.

[9mm]

yonex said:

9mm said:

Rough looking tart with appalling dress sense, a st car and an even crappier house. Customary media scowl.

What more can you say?

That the guy who parked in the space was a cock and that a cock and a tart don't mix to make anything worthwhile?

I don't understand why the supermarkets don't employ a scamera and fine those who can't make the simple and correct choices when they park.

Well, they can't fine can they? I expect it would be a lot of admin and/or sub-contracting with rather too much potential for bad PR. They don't really come out of this little spat too badly so I doubt they're that bothered. I can also envisage people coming up with all sorts of creative defences that would tie up a lot of resource. Hard to imagine the supermarkets haven't considered it.