tesco parking Gestapo

[the stigs dad]

People who abuse family and disabled spaces are twunts.

[TangerinePool]

jdw1234 said:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/startWebshop.do

This every time.

Oh and Costco. Yeah go there but park at the end of the car park. Loadsa room!

[V8mate]

the stigs dad said:

People who abuse family and disabled spaces are twunts.

Hmmn. I think you've just managed to outknob the OP.

[Agent Orange]

Captain Muppet said:

I wonder how you would write that post "as a disabled" rather than "as a parent".

Differently I suspect.

Don't try and be naughty and twist my comment into an anti-disabled stance. Was nothing of the sort.

Simply stating there are proportionally far more spaces reserved for disabled drivers, of which many are empty, compared to parent spaces.

[gt500nick]

I like the order online idea, it removes the queuing and parking problem.

[Prof Prolapse]

It's just a car space, people need to lighten the fk up.

Unfortunately though you've awoken the Pistonheads Kraken when it comes to tiny man syndrome so I wouldn't expect too much sympathy here.

If it makes you feel better, if there's plenty free I park in disabled spaces. I also park my bike on the pavement. If someone addressed me in a similar manner I would probably not have shown the restraint you did, so personally I think you should be proud of yourself.

I mean Jesus-fking-Christ, what do these people actually need the spaces for anyway? If you can't control your offspring then don't bring them to the sodding shops. You can shop online for £3.00 at Tesco.

[Fatchops]

I park at the far end of the carpark and walk the extra 30 seconds but parent and child spaces have always annoyed me, does having a kid somehow make you disabled? why can't your child walk further? it would stop it being such a fat ass, and if it's a baby push it furher and get some exercise and stop having such a fat ass. Having said that after watching them swing their doors out wide for Felicity and Tarquin and banging them into other peoples cars at least it keeps them coralled away from me.

[*JH*]

Big Fat Fatty said:

My mum managed alright, of course these were the days when Parent and Child spaces were merely ideas in the minds of science fiction writers but still.......

To be fair in those days parking spaces were not the width of a Fiat 500...

Fatchops said:

I park at the far end of the carpark and walk the extra 30 seconds but parent and child spaces have always annoyed me, does having a kid somehow make you disabled? why can't your child walk further? it would stop it being such a fat ass, and if it's a baby push it further and get some exercise and stop having such a fat ass. Having said that after watching them swing their doors out wide for Felicity and Tarquin and banging them into other peoples cars at least it keeps them coralled away from me.

You've missed the point of the 'extra wide' spaces.

[Caulkhead]

She was obviously on the blob, though I'm not at all sure why your car needs more than a standard sized parking space - it's only 3 and a bit inches wider and half an inch longer than my Mazda 6 and I don't have trouble parking that.

[Andehh]

+1 for online shopping and avoiding the wholeissue. Worse case just park at the opposite end of the car park.

Common sense dictates the reason for child bays etc...

[gt500nick]

Caulkhead said:

She was obviously on the blob, though I'm not at all sure why your car needs more than a standard sized parking space - it's only 3 and a bit inches wider and half an inch longer than my Mazda 6 and I don't have trouble parking that.

it's the getting out that's difficult.

[LocoCoco]

Prof Prolapse said:

It's just a car space, people need to lighten the fk up.

Unfortunately though you've awoken the Pistonheads Kraken when it comes to tiny man syndrome so I wouldn't expect too much sympathy here.

If it makes you feel better, if there's plenty free I park in disabled spaces. I also park my bike on the pavement. If someone addressed me in a similar manner I would probably not have shown the restraint you did, so personally I think you should be proud of yourself.

I mean Jesus-fking-Christ, what do these people actually need the spaces for anyway? If you can't control your offspring then don't bring them to the sodding shops. You can shop online for £3.00 at Tesco.

It's just a debate about a car space, lighten the fk up.

[aizvara]

Prof Prolapse said:

It's just a car space, people need to lighten the fk up.

Unfortunately though you've awoken the Pistonheads Kraken when it comes to tiny man syndrome so I wouldn't expect too much sympathy here.

If it makes you feel better, if there's plenty free I park in disabled spaces. I also park my bike on the pavement. If someone addressed me in a similar manner I would probably not have shown the restraint you did, so personally I think you should be proud of yourself.

I mean Jesus-fking-Christ, what do these people actually need the spaces for anyway? If you can't control your offspring then don't bring them to the sodding shops. You can shop online for £3.00 at Tesco.

For the P&C spaces, it isn't only about offspring running wild. For me it would have been useful to use these spaces as I couldn't get the baby out of the car without fully opening the doors. Would have been useful, but I only managed it once, as on all other occasions there have been no free spaces. And now he's two so he can get out himself. And we use Waitrose delivery instead.

I'd have thought it fairly obvious why disabled people might need those larger spaces.

[trashbat]

I drive a very large and very expensive car and sometimes parking it can be difficult to the point of being downright proletarian.

Anyway after enjoying a lovely country jaunt I found myself a rather good spot to leave it. As I make to depart I find that this ugly and frankly visibly insane old peasant woman has rudely barged in, dressed in her pyjamas, and starts to harangue me about some particularly uninteresting matter.

Well I say, there's barely enough bloody room without you making a bloody fuss, and it isn't exactly easy to manoeuvre the old girl you know. If one doesn't like it so much why doesn't one not live here.



Bloody witch.

Yours blahfully,

Lord Blah of Blahfield upon Blah

Edited by trashbat on Tuesday 13th November 14:19

[gt500nick]

trashbat said:

I drive a very large and very expensive car and sometimes parking it can be difficult to the point of being downright proletarian.

Anyway after enjoying a lovely country jaunt I found myself a rather good spot to leave it. As I make to depart I find that this ugly and frankly visibly insane old peasant woman has rudely barged in, dressed in her pyjamas, and starts to harangue me about some particularly uninteresting matter.

Well I say, there's barely enough bloody room without you making a bloody fuss, and it isn't exactly easy to manouevre the old girl you know. If one doesn't like it so much why doesn't one not live here.



Bloody witch.

Yours blahfully,

Lord Blah of Blahfield upon Blah

hillarious

[djohnson]

A lady began to make a rather pointed comment about parent and child spaces as I parked the 911 in one at Waitrose in Otley. Presumably she considered that such cars could not and would not convey children. She became somewhat quieter as I removed my 3 year old from the car.

[Raddors]

djohnson said:

A lady began to make a rather pointed comment about parent and child spaces as I parked the 911 in one at Waitrose in Otley. Presumably she considered that such cars could not and would not convey children. She became somewhat quieter as I removed my 3 year old from the car.

...Three year old 12 bore Browning.

[Ari]

gt500nick said:

if a Tesco employee had asked me to move I would have, however I am sure that other people park in these spaces who don't have kids. I see small cars in those spaces all the time, or people on there own using them.

Classic chav justification.

"Well other people drop litter"

"Well other people let their dogs st on the pavement"

"Well other people put their feet on seats"

"Well other people park in these spaces"


Woman sounds like a nutter, but she was far more in the right than you.

[*JH*]

doogz said:

Really?

Audi made a V12 diesel engine, that they put in the Q7, I think?

There's never been a V12 in an A8, has there?

Not a V but they did have a W12 in the S8

[fatboy69]

Probably shouldnt have parked in the family parking bays if you didn't have any children with you however there are certain polite ways of making this point to someone.

I'm guessing that you didn't have any kids with you & I'm also assuming that had she, politely, said that you were taking up a family parking space when you didn't have kids you probably would have moved the car?