Of course I'd probably have to carry lord knows how many forms of ID to prove my age and apply for a badge for the car thus giving more employment to the bureaucrats.
Naaah - beige coat and a trilby hat would do the job...
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Wot, like HJ?
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I would imagine that the spaces are for people who are infirm, and not necessarily just old. If fit mothers with children can have designated spaces, why not the infirm?
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The infirm already have their own disabled spaces. Apparently these new spaces are for oldies - which assume means that they don't necessarily have to be infirm.
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You wouldn't catch me parking anywhere near an oldie ~ they're mostly infirm of mind never mind infirm of body!
And if anyone doesn't like me saying that I'll hit them with my pension book!
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This is really going to far. Whats next graduated parking spaces by age, younger ones further away? how about spaces marked by number of children? or what about sex Male /female? By race?
There is no legislation to back this up, and I will park on them as i wish, as I do with mother and child spaces.
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>I will park on them as i wish, as I do with mother and child spaces.
Well, shame on you, TVM! Do courtesy and consideration have to be backed by legislation? The extra width of those parent-and-child spaces makes all the difference when you're trying to strap a toddler into a seat. Finding them all filled by other parents is a mild annoyance; finding them filled by an assortment of oldies, fatties and Discovery/Land Cruiser drivers, who either won't take the trouble to park in a regular space or didn't fancy walking an extra 30 metres in the rain, is infuriating.
That said, the smallest Beest is now almost competent to fasten his own seat belt, so my justification for using these spaces is almost over. So I'll be leaving them to those who really need them, as I hope will you.
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Shame on me my bottom. This is a disease. My local DIY store now has "parent and child spaces" - twenty of them. I don't see too many toddler in push chairs holding two metres of 10mm ply.
As i said its a disease and unless we stop it, 35 year old single white males, will have to park three hundred yards away behind the "gay men with tight trousers" spaces.
"mother and child" spaces get parked on by me - Someone has to make a stand.
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"mother and child" spaces get parked on by me - Someone has to make a stand.
A noble cause indeed.
Someone I know parked her car in Sainsburys' parent&child bay without child (she has got one, but left it at home), and they slapped an £80 'fine' on her.
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As i said its a disease and unless we stop it 35 year old single white males will have to park three hundred yards away behind the "gay men with tight trousers" spaces.
Got to agree wholeheartedly with this post as a 26 y.o. hetrosexual fit and healthy work hard, pay my taxes and keep myself to myself, criminal reccord free ('cept 1 speeding ticket) male christian, no one gives a flying pink fluffy dice about me...
Next we will have special parking spaces for fat people, bald people, women only, people in high heels, tourists.....
Where does the stupidity end???
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>as a ... christian, no one gives a flying pink fluffy dice about me...
But you have the ultimate imaginary friend, Morpheus. What else could you possibly want?
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my bottom. This is a disease. behind the "gay men with tight trousers" Someone has to make a stand.
Er, do calm down TVM.
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>> my bottom. This is a disease. >> behind the "gay men with >> tight trousers" >> Someone has to make a >> stand.
I never imagined that I'd be contemplating changing my sexuality to get a parking space. :)
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As i said its a disease and unless we stop it 35 year old single white males will have to park three hundred yards away behind the "gay men with tight trousers" spaces.
Lol, I can only assume that was at least a little bit TIC, I can't honestly say that I've ever had favourable treatment when it comes to parking, or anything else for that matter, most of my friends also seem to get the same pathetic response from all of our public services as eveybody else. :-)
I personally wouldn't be caught anywhere near a parent and child bay mind, I think it's daft, I prefer to park at the far side of the car park across two bays, far safer!
Blue
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There is no legislation to back this up and I will park on them as i wish as I do with mother and child spaces.
Try coralling a couple of toddlers and a shopping trolley across a supermarket carpark, and tell me that the mother-and-kiddies spaces don't make sense...
Unfortunately, like most 'nice ideas', they are open to abuse, same as disabled bays.
off on a tangent - I saw one of Donal McIntyre's show the other day where some git had parked his gallardo across TWO disbaled bays... just so it didn't get scratched.
They also ran up to insonsiderate parkers with a wheelchair saying "seeing as how you are parked in a disabled bay, allow us to give you a lift into the shops..."
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This reminds me of my mother-in-law who came home after using her OAP bus pass for the first time, absolutely furious because it had been accepted without question or even hesitation! She would have spent all day looking for a space rather than use one designated for the more mature!
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I have always thought mother and kiddy spaces make sense but they should be at far side of car park - if they are fit enough to have kids then they should be fit enough to walk 100 yrds - change them all to the bendy old people I say
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No one forces you to take your kids to the supermarket. In fact they should be banned. If tescobury want your custom they should provide a creche.
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No one forces you to take your kids to the supermarket...
That elicited an audible response I won't type here. I'll give TVM the benefit of the doubt and assume that bit of nonsense was written with tongue in cheek. But, just in case it wasn't, how do children learn about the world they grow up in if not by going along to do things like shopping? The British attitude that says children are inconveniences, to be parked in nurseries and creches, and kept out of the way of real, adult human beings is despicable. They won't learn how to buy a joint of meat, or that 1kg of supermarket corn flakes costs less than 500g of big-brand ones, which taste indistinguishable, by watching videos in a nursery all day.
In any case, if you're taking your children to a supermarket creche, you still have to park your car.
Incidentally, I wouldn't mind at all if the parent spaces were further from the door. It would lessen the temptation to the can-walk-won't-walk crowd.
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No ok, how about teaching them before you even get in the supermarket that where you can park is regulated by some namby pamby jobsworth. How about teachiing them that they will be mollycoddled from cradle to grave and if they want anything all they have to do is moan..
Didnt have mother / baby spaces when my nipper was young, and do you know what? we coped. Really rather well actually. Now aint that strange.
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Didnt have mother / baby spaces when my nipper was young and do you know what? we coped. Really rather well actually. Now aint that strange. ------------------------------
My Mum walked there......and back. Country has gone to the Dogs.
MD
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as mentioned, keeping rein on kiddies in carparks is difficult.
Especially the way some dingbats drive!
Add to that, the parked 4x4s, which create visibility difficulties, and peole reverse out of pays without seeing you/the nipper...
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Presumably anyone driving a Honda won't have to provide any other evidence for being an 'oldie'. ;-)
Almost makes me want to visit Hillingdon...but not quite.
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Oi - watch it young feller me lad.
In my day we didn't have supermarkets never mind parking spaces, just a quick trip to the village shop for a sherbet dab and some gobstoppers.
I do admit to a smugness however when returning to my Honda Tourer fully loaded with shopping , pressing the car key and the tailgate rises up electronically avoiding all that need to fumble with keys in lock , put shopping on the ground etc.
The Hillingdon council guy that I saw interviewed about the spaces did actually give the age as 65 not 50 and said they had only used the bendy old folks symbol on the spaces because that was the internationally recognised sign.
I have only been given seniors discount once and that was at the Civil Rights museum in Memphis, saved me one whole dollar :0)
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In my day we didn't have supermarkets never mind parking spaces just a quick trip to the village shop for a sherbet dab and some gobstoppers.
Cue brass band music and small bread-delivery boy on bicycle.
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It just makes me laugh people complaining about having to walk a few extra yards to the supermarket. Poor dear old souls.
Forget bread delivery boys Ian -my mother baked her own bread , cakes and pies.
It was all delicious .Chicken , lamb, beef , pork etc plus milk , cream , butter eggs and fresh vegetables were all produced on the farm.
When my parents first got married just before the war they lived so far out in the wilds of Northumberland that it was literally 20 miles to the nearest other habitation and probably another ten to anywhere with even a village shop.
They were virtually self sufficient , they maybe shopped twice yearly and goods were transported by horse or on foot .
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I have always thought mother and kiddy spaces make sense but they should be at far side of car park - if they are fit enough to have kids then they should be fit enough to walk 100 yrds - change them all to the bendy old people I say
The problem then is they are more likely to be run over if they have further to walk. The supemarkets could probably be sued.
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Not all supermarket carparks are owned/administered by the supermarket. Some ~ Asda in Carcroft for example ~ are local authority carparks.
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And if that gets past the swear filter I will be very surprised!
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Parking places for oldies....
There is one where I live - it is called the cemetery - you can never overstay
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Asda in Carcroft for example >>
Same where I live. Our local council never misses a trick to fleece motorists; Asda will pay the parking fee if you spend a certain amount, but it must hit profits overall for each store on an annual basis.
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As i said its a disease and unless we stop it, 35 year old single white males, will have to park three hundred yards away behind the "gay men with tight trousers" spaces
At least it wouldn't need much enforcing.
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