ASDA Parent & Child parking - fine for misuse

Jonnycoupe said:
IME Most people (not living at home) go shopping specifically for food (and the other stuff like washing powder), to a supermarket and straight back and that includes single professionals.
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What on earth does where you live have to do with how you'd go shopping for food? My parents do the same thing - go to Sainsburys on the way back from somewhere else rather than go out specifically to Sainsburys. It's just more efficient thats all.
 
About time IMO.

I prefer to park in the last row from the door (less dents from impatient morons out there).

But occasionally I'm there with my sister and my Nephew, and it's a lot easier to park next to the shop with room to untangle him from his 5 point harness. But most of the time it's full of the same impatient morons who dent your car.


It's not as if you can accidentally park in those spaces without noticing, they're painted yellow and blue! Anyone who actually gets one of these fines is a blind impatient moron.
 
v0n said:
You are still not reading it, I think, you just want to pick up a fight, any fight.
What does that quote say? The idea that you can replace playtime with your kids with superket shopping - the notion, the way of raising, the philosophy of "don't have to go to swings, don't have to go to zoo, I can kill two birds with one stone and get to run the kid around till he's tired AND do shopping in the same time" is in fact really stupid and sloppy way to raise kids. That's what that line says. I didn't call you or anybody else stupid, it wasn't direct hit, it was indirect, non personal generalization. In fact, I wasn't even replying to anything you wrote, so I don't know how you could even pick it as a "direct hit".
That's my opinion though - I live in chav capital of the world, this is the parenting model I see every weekend and strongly disagree with. Yesterday I had a row with my neighbour, about his collection of tesco shopping trolleys on our common bit of pavement. Everytime he goes shopping with his brat he brings another trolley, next to shoppings in his old SUV, "for kids to have fun with". He takes the trolley out of the car, and puts their shoppings inside then rolls the trolley between driveway and door with the kid in fold away child seat. That's the "fun" part. They then push the trolley to the end of the driveway, onto the pavement and leave it there, like the trolleys were to chain themselves together at night and skate back to the shop few miles away on their own. But the kid has "fun" for all 2 minutes every sunday. The part where daddy "borrows" shop propery and forgets to take it back is not important. The simple "Daddy is not going through all the hustle to steal this trolley so you can ride in it for few minutes at home" anwser doesn't suffice. "Kid wants, kid gets" is somehow the way. Kid wants to scream, why should parents intervene, kid wants to kick trolleys, why should daddy feel embarassed and be apologetic. And when you reach the stage where dad steals the entire trolley, goes through all the trouble to pack it into the boot, without anyone noticing etc, because that's what kid wants, the once simple rules of engagement of "you are responsible for your little ones" doesn't come into play anymore. It's one way interaction from this point onwards.
Not to mention the lot are on benefits and dont' work, but they will religiously join everyone on weekend in supermarket, like they were "busy" doing nothing all week long and simply MUST do shopping with full family specifically on Sunday. "The event" at Tescos mentality at its best.

'm not trying to get off the hook, if this is how you rise your kids, and you feel insulted by me calling that model of upbringing where sunday shopping is the quality time with dad - stupid, then I'm sorry, but that's how I feel. I don't think anyone would call it a right choice.
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Congratulations.
After six years on these forums, you've nominated yourself as sufficiently ignorant to deserve to be the first person who I will actively chose to enable the "ignore" option on, at least once I can find it.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Congratulations.
After six years on these forums, you've nominated yourself as sufficiently ignorant to deserve to be the first person who I will actively chose to enable the "ignore" option on, at least once I can find it.
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Goto their profile and there will be an option to add them to your ignore list :)

Burnsy
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Congratulations.
After six years on these forums, you've nominated yourself as sufficiently ignorant to deserve to be the first person who I will actively chose to enable the "ignore" option on, at least once I can find it.
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Oh the irony. If only your children had an ignore button which meant we couldn't hear or see them as well. :D
 
Foxtrot26 said:
aren't you the big man, letting tyres down what a man :rolleyes:

hope someone catches you and takes the utmost offence to your actions
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i dont allways let the tyres down i sometimes just park across the back of their car
and i do hope they take offence to my actions
because i take offence to theirs i have had to miss visits to the hospital because i cant find a space big enough to get my wheelchair out of my car
they have only parked there because they are lazy a holes they deserve everything they get !!
 
Blimey... this threads going a bit pear shaped..

I'm amazed at some peoples attitudes, at the end of the day, P&B and disabled spaces are there for a reason, to just blatantly 'abuse' either shows a clear lack of courteousness on your behalf, no amount of excuses of legality or not agreeing with the reason for their existance can excuse you.. if you can't be courteous to others, then stop bitching when others aren't courteous to you...

:)
 
[TW]Fox;10897314 said:
What on earth does where you live have to do with how you'd go shopping for food? My parents do the same thing - go to Sainsburys on the way back from somewhere else rather than go out specifically to Sainsburys. It's just more efficient thats all.
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It was a trend I have observed. Hence the IME.

That is all.
 
UKDTweak said:
Ok, on parking spaces.. cars have been around for a LONG time, yet its only recently that these parent spaces have appeared..... you managed without them before, so what changed?
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horses have been around for even longer

mankind managed without the automobile for thousands of years, you dont even need a car.

you could make do with a horse and carriage couldnt you ?
 
MrLOL said:
horses have been around for even longer

mankind managed without the automobile for thousands of years, you dont even need a car.

you could make do with a horse and carriage couldnt you ?
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What a stupid analogy - how many people use horses to go to Sainsburys with?

I have a 1971 Ford Escort that does the shopping just as well as my 5 year old BMW, in fact it's more fun if anything.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Congratulations.
After six years on these forums, you've nominated yourself as sufficiently ignorant to deserve to be the first person who I will actively chose to enable the "ignore" option on, at least once I can find it.
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It has to be said though, you are one of the most confrontational, agressive and strange people I have ever met on this forum. You join mid thread, don't grasp the topic fully by the look of things and then while I'm replying to someone completely else you manage to convince yourself I called YOU, personally a name and questioned your IQ, and when I try to explain what you missed in the whole conversation you throw a tantrum.
Look. Sukebe.
Nothing was remotely written in your direction. Certainly not this thread. Any part of it. no one called you by name, no one asked for you, no one said directly anything in bad faith remotely targeting your person, nick, position, what have you. I for one, wasn't even talking to you, about you, around you, in any way, shape and format. You picked some random quote, from my reply to someone completely else, treating about some general idea and you dare to insist I called you "stupid"? What is this? At this point I don't even know what you want and what to do with your accusations. To me it looks like you joined around page 4 with some massive chip on your shoulder to pick up a fight. Not with me, mate. Not now, not ever. It's not my thing. So Mr. I'll happily do it for you. Bang. You are on permanent ignore.
 
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[TW]Fox;10899324 said:
Awesome! A fight in Motors and I'm not a part :p
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I think he actually tried to wind up the same pattern along the lines of "oh are you saying I'm not smart enough" with you around post 202, you just wouldn't let him go into such high RPMs (about nothing really)... What a strange guy...
 
This thread has clearly touched a raw nerve for a lot of people.
During the day time, this thread was updating every few seconds :eek:
 
panthro said:
Does anyone here actually park in parent and child spaces when they dont have any children?
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yes.

1: our carpark has like 100 of the dam spaces so you need a taxi to get to the store if you park in a normal space


2: if we enforced the "rules" no one would be using the spaces

3: idiots smashing there door into your car... child/disabled spaces dont generally have this problem lol
 
The impression I'm getting from this thread is that generally people would like car parking spaces to be wider, to reduce the risk of door damage/dents. To achieve this, some are resorting to the wide berths given to parent/child parking spaces.
 
Well unfortunately for some an outright ban of children in supermarkets isn't going to happen very soon so I think you'll just have to lump it ;)

On the whole "parking space" thing, to be honest I couldn't give two stuffs if somebody parks in and M&B space, I'd rather they had the good manners not to but hey nobody dies!

Parking in a disabled bay is just ignorant, if your poor little legs can't carry a few more feet then your pathetic in the extreme.

Anyway this thread is just going around in circles, for the people without children maybe you could just show a little tolerance. To the parents please ensure that your child is perfectly behaved at all times so the important people with no children who are in a rush to finish their shopping can do so unfettered.

Over and out!
 
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