I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

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Adam

ARW wrote:
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?


See if there is a bay marked "**** with Parking Envy".

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In article ,
says...

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

Avoid the second one if you've eaten a good curry.

A really talented driver would somehow manage to block all three.

--
Sam

Sam Plusnet wrote:
In article ,
says...

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low
emmission bay or the mother and child bay?


A really talented driver would somehow manage to block all three.

A woman probably do that, it would not make her a talented driver.

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Adam

On Tuesday 15 October 2013 19:31 ARW wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay


or the mother and child bay?

Well, it's technically a parent and child bay - so borrow the sprog. Anyway,
you need help to carry the beer

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:09:05 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

or the mother and child bay?

Well, it's technically a parent and child bay - so borrow the sprog.

Or take a parent ...

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue
Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge
bays were taken.

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Dave Liquorice wrote:

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue
Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge
bays were taken.


When I take my two disabled people shopping I don't use the disabled
bays because with wheelchairs we don't need them. I leave them for others.

Bill

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:36:42 PM UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue

Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge

bays were taken.

Invariably by ******* with no blue badge or no apparent disability and their mum's badge (or something).

The vilke *******s should have their Mercs, BMWs, Audis & 4x4 bling wagens moved to a distant corner of the car park and neatly stacked with a fork lift.

On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 09:27:35 UTC+1, Onetap wrote:

[...]


The vilke *******s should have their Mercs, BMWs, Audis & 4x4 bling wagens moved to a distant corner of the car park and neatly stacked with a fork lift.

http://youparklikea****.com/

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:27:35 -0700 (PDT), Onetap wrote:

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue
Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge
bays were taken.

Invariably by ******* with no blue badge or no apparent disability
and their mum's badge (or something).

Pretty sure the the first and last are offences and the last will
also risk the rightful holder having their Blue Badge taken away.

The second is very thin ice and the change of scheme branding from
"Disabled Parking" to "Blue Badge" was to remove the implication
coming from "disabled" that it only meant those in wheelchairs or
other outwardly obvious mobilty problems.

My father had a Blue Badge early on beacuse he was registered blind,
one eye and that had a cateract. With only one eye the "bad outcome"
risk of having the cateract removed was significantly higher than
some one with a "spare" eye. At that time he was just a "nice old
gentleman" but he could barely see if there was any bright light
about. As he got older mobilty became more of a problem and for
anything over 50 yds he did use a wheelchair.

The vilke *******s should have their Mercs, BMWs, Audis & 4x4 bling
wagens moved to a distant corner of the car park and neatly stacked with
a fork lift.

Presumably you mean the ****s that park in Blue Badge spaces without
a Blue Badge?

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In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:27:35 -0700 (PDT), Onetap wrote:

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue
Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge
bays were taken.

Invariably by ******* with no blue badge or no apparent disability
and their mum's badge (or something).

Pretty sure the the first and last are offences and the last will
also risk the rightful holder having their Blue Badge taken away.

The second is very thin ice and the change of scheme branding from
"Disabled Parking" to "Blue Badge" was to remove the implication
coming from "disabled" that it only meant those in wheelchairs or
other outwardly obvious mobilty problems.

My father had a Blue Badge early on beacuse he was registered blind,
one eye and that had a cateract. With only one eye the "bad outcome"
risk of having the cateract removed was significantly higher than
some one with a "spare" eye. At that time he was just a "nice old
gentleman" but he could barely see if there was any bright light
about. As he got older mobilty became more of a problem and for
anything over 50 yds he did use a wheelchair.

presumably he didn't drive a car?

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On 15/10/2013 20:36, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:09:05 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

or the mother and child bay?

Well, it's technically a parent and child bay - so borrow the sprog.

Or take a parent ...

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue
Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge
bays were taken.


I can't do that, as I'm an orphan. Sniff.

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:36:17 +0100, GB wrote:

Well, it's technically a parent and child bay - so borrow the
sprog.

Or take a parent ...

I've parked in "Parent & Child" bays when I used to take my Blue
Badge holding 80+ year old father shopping and all the Blue Badge
bays were taken.

I can't do that, as I'm an orphan. Sniff.

I can't any more either.

Though it does just say "Parent & Child" so as I'm a parent and
*anybody* else is a child (of some one) ...

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:31:24 +0100, ARW wrote:

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission
bay or the mother and child bay?

As you can't find one suitably labeled do what every other prat does:
Park outside the door.

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Cheers
Dave.

On 15/10/2013 19:31, ARW wrote:
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone sounds
fine ;-)


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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:19:42 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football
match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low
emmission
bay or the mother and child bay?

Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone sounds
fine ;-)

I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-)

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Dave.

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:19:42 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football
match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low
emmission bay or the mother and child bay?

Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone
sounds fine ;-)

I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-)

John Smiths:-) I am not a lager drinker.

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:44:29 +0100, ARW wrote:

Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone
sounds fine ;-)

I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-)

John Smiths:-) I am not a lager drinker.

Well it's not lager but is it beer?

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On 16/10/2013 21:43, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:44:29 +0100, ARW wrote:

Since you won't have drunk the beer yet, the low emmisions zone
sounds fine ;-)

I have Adam down a lager drinker rather than Draught Bass. B-)

John Smiths:-) I am not a lager drinker.

Well it's not lager but is it beer?

Not as we know it Jim.....

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On 15/10/2013 19:31, ARW wrote:
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?


Park in the bay nearest to where you want to go.


One of the smaller supermarkets local to me has converted around half
the car park to mother and child very wide bays. The result is that the
car park is often full and people are starting to shop elsewhere.

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alan wrote:

On 15/10/2013 19:31, ARW wrote:

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

Park in the bay nearest to where you want to go.

One of the smaller supermarkets local to me has converted around half
the car park to mother and child very wide bays. The result is that the
car park is often full and people are starting to shop elsewhere.

My offspring lives near a shopping centre that has ~1000 parking
spaces. The staff of the supermarket complained that
they had to compete with customers for parking places. The solution
was to put notices on a section of the car park saying it was for
staff permit holders only. It was enforced by a fat dragon of a woman,
who accosted myself and SWMBO one day while walking along the footpath
that edged this area, and berated us for having parked there. We were
in fact walking back to where we were staying, and hadn't come by
car.

This situation didn't last long and the fat dragon was seen no more.
However, the permit-only car park was as far from the supermarket as
it was possible to get, and the staff got fed up of being rained on
and so resumed parking with the customers.

The result is that this permit-only section of the car park now stands
empty as customers won't risk disobeying the signs (£80 penalty),
staff won't use it, and so some 10% of the total space has been
lost.

The restriction notices originally said something about the marked
bays, but none were marked and so I parked there hoping to get a
ticket I could contest, but they then changed the wording. Now it is
just a waste of space.

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Terry Fields wrote:

The result is that this permit-only section of the car park now stands
empty as customers won't risk disobeying the signs (£80 penalty),
staff won't use it, and so some 10% of the total space has been
lost.

The restriction notices originally said something about the marked
bays, but none were marked and so I parked there hoping to get a
ticket I could contest, but they then changed the wording. Now it is
just a waste of space.

Perhaps I should have added that whoever runs the car park has now
installed an ANPRS system to enforce the 2-hour parking rule...Last
time I drove in there it got my number wrong.

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alan wrote:

One of the smaller supermarkets local to me has converted around half
the car park to mother and child very wide bays. The result is that the
car park is often full and people are starting to shop elsewhere.

If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd
shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car. Bonus
marks if they'd get rid of the immigrant workers offering to drag a
damp, gritty rag over the paintwork ...

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:51:25 AM UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:

If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd

shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car. Bonus

marks if they'd get rid of the immigrant workers offering to drag a

damp, gritty rag over the paintwork ...

Costco, though not quite a supermarket.
Spaces wide enough for American cars containing Americans.

On 16 Oct 2013 11:05:10 GMT, Huge wrote:

Costco, though not quite a supermarket.
Spaces wide enough for American cars containing Americans.

Not in the UK.

99% sure that Haydock and Manchester do. Gateshead definitely has
wide bays.

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:15:13 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

Costco, though not quite a supermarket.
Spaces wide enough for American cars containing Americans.

Not in the UK.

99% sure that Haydock and Manchester do. Gateshead definitely has
wide bays.

For Transits.

On 16/10/2013 10:51, Andy Burns wrote:
alan wrote:

One of the smaller supermarkets local to me has converted around half
the car park to mother and child very wide bays. The result is that the
car park is often full and people are starting to shop elsewhere.

If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd
shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car. Bonus
marks if they'd get rid of the immigrant workers offering to drag a
damp, gritty rag over the paintwork ...



Our local Morrison's has wide parking spaces. Our local Tesco's has ones
that are small for a SmartCar. So the usual progress of a supermarket
shopper is to try and find everything in Morrison's, and only go to
Tesco's if necessary.
They are just too far apart to stay parked in Morrison's for both,
unfortunately.
The Co-op is so expensive hardly anybody goes there.

--
Davey.

Davey wrote:
Our local Morrison's has wide parking spaces. Our local Tesco
has ones that are small for a SmartCar.

I took somebody to Manchester Airport on Monday. When I got back
to the car people had parked so close to it I had to get in via
the boot.

JGH

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:27:55 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I took somebody to Manchester Airport on Monday. When I got back
to the car people had parked so close to it I had to get in via
the boot.

I hope you let their tyres down.

On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 12:10:36 UTC+1, Davey wrote:
On 16/10/2013 10:51, Andy Burns wrote:

alan wrote:



One of the smaller supermarkets local to me has converted around half

the car park to mother and child very wide bays. The result is that the

car park is often full and people are starting to shop elsewhere.



If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd

shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car. Bonus

marks if they'd get rid of the immigrant workers offering to drag a

damp, gritty rag over the paintwork ...







Our local Morrison's has wide parking spaces. Our local Tesco's has ones

that are small for a SmartCar. So the usual progress of a supermarket

shopper is to try and find everything in Morrison's, and only go to

Tesco's if necessary.

They are just too far apart to stay parked in Morrison's for both,

unfortunately.

The Co-op is so expensive hardly anybody goes there.

Not as expensive as the subserdised student union shop.

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:51:25 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

alan wrote:

One of the smaller supermarkets local to me has converted around half
the car park to mother and child very wide bays. The result is that the
car park is often full and people are starting to shop elsewhere.

If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd
shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car.

Costco! Not your average supermarket, I agree...

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On 16 Oct 2013 13:26:26 GMT, Huge wrote:

If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays,
I'd
shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my
car.

Costco! Not your average supermarket, I agree...

Not the one in Milton Keynes. The spaces there are standard Euro size.

Gosh that does surprise me. All the Costco's I have visited could
almost have come out of the same mould, from the wide parking bays to
where abouts the goods are on the racking. Streetview does confirm
the lack of wide bays.

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:51:25 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

If any supermarket would convert *all* their spaces to wide bays, I'd
shop there to avoid trolley dings and handbag scratches on my car.

Not a problem out in the sticks, supermarket carpark bays are sized
for Landrovers. Also as Landrovers have the turning circle of a dead
whale, the roadways between the rows are wider.

Occasionally I visit supermarkets in suburbia and the space available
is noticeably tighter. Really bad ones need a three point turn to get
out of a bay with only 9" clearance each side, that's clearance to
the car either side not to the line.

Bonus marks if they'd get rid of the immigrant workers offering to drag
a damp, gritty rag over the paintwork ...

Must be another feature of suburbian supermarket carparks, the
carwashes on such car parks around here use pressure washers and
vacuum cleaners.

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"ARW" wrote in message ...

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?




A real man would have got the bitch to get the beers in before and had it
poured ready...


Pah !
Amateurs

On Wednesday 16 October 2013 05:22 Nthkentman wrote in uk.d-i-y:



"ARW" wrote in message ...

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?




A real man would have got the bitch to get the beers in before and had it
poured ready...


Pah !
Amateurs

You are from Chatham and I claim my £5

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"Tim Watts" wrote in message
...

On Wednesday 16 October 2013 05:22 Nthkentman wrote in uk.d-i-y:



"ARW" wrote in message ...

I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?




A real man would have got the bitch to get the beers in before and had it
poured ready...


Pah !
Amateurs

You are from Chatham and I claim my £5



LOL!

I have lived and worked for many in Chatham matey many moons ago.... and
they're far worse down there FFS!

ARW wrote:
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?


Have you found a supermarket that sells decent beer then?

Bill

"ARW" wrote in message
...
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

--
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The ones with charging points for electric cars only.

On 16/10/2013 08:06, harryagain wrote:
"ARW" wrote in message
...
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

--
Adam
The ones with charging points for electric cars only.

They only stand empty otherwise.

Colin Bignell

"ARW" wrote in message
I need to get some beer in before the England Poland football match.

Now the question. Should I park in the disabled bay, the low emmission bay
or the mother and child bay?

Good one Adam.

(1) Thing is: what can they do to you if you just ignore these priggish
reservations?

(2)
rant
Never heard of "low emission bays" (WTF!!???), no sympathy whatsoever
with "Mother and Child Bays" (awwwwwwwww!!!!),
I'm sympathetic to the idea of blue badge bays --- but not when I see
some of the "disabled" types getting out of their cars, or when I see
people using what is clearly someone else's badge. (And up here in
Northumberland they're allowed park free! WHY!!!???? Are they poorer
than me? In their highly expensive "Motability" tax-payer-subsidised new
cars? And WHY are they allowed to park on double yellows? A
double-yellow is there for a reason -- which is to do with traffic
movement, NOT pedestrian abilities!)
etc etc etc
/rant

John