Andy Hall wrote:
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.
But what are appropriate facilities for kids? A bouncy castle maybe? I
think treating them like some kind of alien species that has to be
specially catered for is part of the problem. Dad should go to Homebase
on his own until the kids are old enough to be interested in the
exercise. Mine still aren't, and they're in their 30s...