On 2007-06-21 11:39:06 +0100, Stuart Noble
said:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2007-06-21 09:35:10 +0100, (Peter Ashby) said:

Andy Hall wrote:

Also, builders merchants are not open evenings or Sundays which are the
most convenient time for me and they also don't tend to have big displays
of things (handy for the "I want a thingy wotsit" type shopping trip).

I pick mid mornings and mid afternoons during weekdays to go to the
merchants; same thing for the odd occasions that I go to DIY stores,
slthough I may go to one of those shortly befor closing. I avoid
weekends at them like the plague - too many people browsing, wandering
about aimlessly and too many small kids running about and getting in
the way. They should be left at home.

Not practical when your other half insists on coming too to help choose
the paint/wallpaper/tile colour/style/pattern/brand etc, etc. The kids
don't want to be there either remember.

Peter

Exactly. Which is why it's not fair on other shoppers to have
misbehaving small kids running around and getting underfoot. If
somebody has a card loaded up with sheet materials, lengths of pipe and
other items that can cause injury, it isn't reasonable to expect them
to have to keep stopping and starting and manoeuvring around kids
running about out of control.

Sounds like a fairly typical British attitude to children. They're
always in the way, stopping us important people from getting on with
the jolly urgent task of tarting our house up. If they did heelies in
my size, I'd have a scoot round Homebase and hopefully make it a more
pleasurable experience


Not really. It's more of a view about parents who don't make sure that
their children behave appropriately. It isn't appropriate, from the
safety perspective to have small ones belting around the aisles of DIY
supermarkets which is why there are recorded announcements pointing
this out. I don't have a problem with kids actually *being* there,
just about how some parents don't manage the situation properly. As I
said, the stores are also culpable for not providing appropriate
facilities.