Crunch! goes the car

I don't see a problem with a supermarket allocating spaces however
they feel fit. I'm sure more people moan when they see motorbikes
parked on paved areas at supermarkets (1) than they do when they see
parent and child spaces. It's only a bit of a pain when people decide
that they know better than the store owners and I see a couple with no
kids using a space I drove by a few minutes earlier.

(1) I regularly do this as do a lot of other people who post on here.

 

I think it's a sense of misplaced self-importance, somewhat akin to the
tossers who always used to park up and switch their hazards on when they
were in a place no sane person would park and they thought the hazards
gave them some degree of legitimacy.

Likewise the rear fogs - difference being that the part of the brain
associated with logical thinking is even more missing in the rear fog
user and the 'switchoff' neurone doesn't fire.

Thus we can observe the difference...

a) Typical Rogue Hazard User

<duh> Coo, I'll park here. Switch on...

Task accomplished, congestion ignored.

<duh> Switch off

b) Typical Rear Fog User

<duh> It's a bit misty and I remember a bit about foggy lights. Switch
on...


Note the total lack of any thought process following the first action.

The lack of visual clue worries me about those people. Something so
obvious being utterly ignored.

Again, utter lack of comprehension. Such fuckers shouldn't be driving at
all.

 

Spot the non-parent.

You wouldn't understand, old son. Try hauling a toddler around when
you've a shopping trolley.

I've absolutely no problem with parent and child spaces even though I've
never used one in my life; I'm happy enough for others to take advantage
of them; what does it cost me? A few metres extra walking.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Alison Hopkins belched forth and ejected the
following:

There aren't that many crumblies round here.

Maybe there's a highly disproportionate amount of cripps round where WUN
lives.

I fucking hate it when some **** parks in the bike bay[1] at the bottom
of Walm Lane outside the pet shop. I always try and park in their way
but it needs more bikes to block the bastards in.

[1] Along with all those pizza bikes

 

Heh. I know that very spot. Don't park there, though, even outside a bike
bay. Sainsbury's is free and I'm damned if I'll give Brent the dosh.

Ali

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Alison Hopkins belched forth and ejected the
following:

Sainsbury's? What in WL or LG?

There's a car park in WHR but that (was at least) a Somerfield.

 

The one that was a Somerfield in WHR is now a Sainsbury's. Same staff: they
were dead chuffed, as they get far better pay and conditions. Car park still
free for the first two hours. Still the nice West Africans doing decent car
washes, too.

Ali

 

Life's a bitch, eh?

 

Alison Hopkins wrote

Nobody sees the messenger of grey death and lives.

Wrong Hadleigh I think you will find. This is the [proper on in Essex,
where the Romans built a fort and everything.

 

Ah, OK. Sort of Sarfend way?

Ali

 

Alison Hopkins wrote

You soon learn not to speak when she is in the room. Them succubii can
give a wicked bite you know.

Sort of Southend Way!!.

Yes, sort of.

 

tossed off:

Spot on, as a parent I regularly[1] use them at our local Tesco

[1] for "when I have to go the fucking place" value of regularly

--
Dan L

1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Alison Hopkins belched forth and ejected the
following:

<Enlightened mode>

Ahh..

Excellent. I did find going to LG a chore.

I never had my car done by one of those. Are they any good?

 

Yeah, but you're capable of driving vehicles quite well, and I do
exactly the same once I've finished braking.

Although, the new car does flash the hazards for me if I stand on the
brakes.

 

They haven't.[1]

But my wife took her test in January and it was one of the questions
she was asked in the theory test.




[1] Apart from the several people I've seen over the years.

 

Sounds good.

Parent and child places are fair game though IMO.

 

Brakes lights are bright funnily enough. Bright enough to affect the
night vision of the person right behind you. Ever thought they might
actually want to see past your car?

No because you don't know the circumstances of them.

No, you can carry on being the incompetent driver and rider who
discards the experience of others, I really don't care.

That's my exact point. Most people of the last week seem to think
rear fogs should be used in the merest hint of fog.

 

It's not a huge branch, but seems to have everything you need. The baker's
opposite is pretty good, too. Paul Tregeser.

A fiver well spent, imo. Hand wash and polish off with a cloth, and you
remember the car is silver, not mud coloured. I'd not do it for that money.

Ali

 

Yes, which is why I remove my foot from the brake when they get behind
me. Did you not read when I wrote?

What experience of others am I binning? It appears that other people
here also do exactly as I and have no issues with it either.

I think you're mistaking people like me, who remove my foot from the
brake when someone is behind me for someone that only keeps their foot
on the brake with other people behind.

 

Wait until you've got kids and find that getting them into the back of
the car in a normal sized parking space is rather tricky.

Is it the width of the parking spaces or the siting of them that
causes so much anguish amongst some people? When you look at it
logically then you realise that families with young kids spend more
money than others so they're the ones to encourage by making their
trip to the shop easier.