antisocial parking the norm?

[661-Pete]

He's waiting for the store to close so he can search the bins

Yes I know a joke's a joke - but alas! for some people in some parts of the world, they don't have the choice. Reflect on that....

[PDQ Mobile]

Once wound up a driver in Tesco!

BMW X5 abandoned across the back of the cars in the disabled bays. Spoke to Security, and apparently the woman was a regular

Quick "Public Service Announcement" on the tannoy

Would the owner of the Grey BMW XXX YYY, please report to Customer Services, your car is inconsiderately blocking several disabled bays"

The woman storms up demanding to see a manager in order to complain and inciting an audience who were NOT sympathetic. The round of applause as she had to move the car was brilliant

On another occasion a pickup, fencing materials sticking out the back parked in the same spot.
(Carpark three-quarters empty.)

Driven by a very large and hairy man sitting in while his wife shopped.

An old lady got tooted at as she couldn't see to move out safely.

As I left the carpark I drove up to said large fella, window to window, and said; "You were really blocking that old lady's view. What's up with the rest of the carpark?"

" I dunno" he replied.

I said, "Well, big fit bloke like you, I would have thought a couple of extra yards not much of a problem?"

He looked rather annoyed and stared very hard!

Another car was approaching so I said, "Well I guess I'd better move or I'll be holding up the traffic too"

He growled menacingly, "I think you better had!"

I left really chuckling to myself though.
Never saw him parked there again.

[al_yrpal]

The unloading bay at Henley on Thames Tesco was a regular parking spot for Anthony Worral Thomson until....

Our village charity bus pulled up alongside and started discharging elderley shoppers blocking him in. The driver grabbed trolleys and helped each old lady and gent off the bus and propped them up with a trolley. Wozza, as he was known locally came out and was apoplectic, " you have blocked me in!" he shouted. He was fuming. But old Meg waded in. "Well, you shouldnt be parked here, theres nothing wrong with your legs, you are just bone idle and can park out in the car park like everyone else, just because you are a cook on TV doesnt give you the right to park here where we have to get on and off the bus". Wozza was red faced and the bus driver took his time escorting his passengers to the store entrance.

You will remember that Wozza got done for shoplifting at this store shortly afterwards. He claimed it was him having some sort of mental breakdown.

Justice....

Al

[Cyril Haearn]

What Madness, free access to the shelves for all and sundry, that could never work, shoplifters would be ubiquitous

[JohnW]

Quick response to the question posed by the thread title : Yes, antisocial parking IS the norm.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

He's waiting for the store to close so he can search the bins

Yes I know a joke's a joke - but alas! for some people in some parts of the world, they don't have the choice. Reflect on that....

I did think that after I posted

[merseymouth]

Morning all, Question for you.
Where were the first self-service supermarkets in Britain? A clue is that they weren't technically in Britain. A nice pub quiz question. IGICB MM

[661-Pete]

Morning all, Question for you.
Where were the first self-service supermarkets in Britain? A clue is that they weren't technically in Britain. A nice pub quiz question. IGICB MM

I tried googling and the only answers I got - dating from around 1948 on - were definitely within mainland GB. So I don't know which one you're thinking of.

And there was a mention of Premier (1951) which rings a bell with me. When my mum visited the opening day of Premier's Crawley branch, this must have been several years later, she was handed one of those 'record cards' - you may remember the things, a postcard with a vinyl record track embossed on it, which you could place on a gramophone and play. Well, we played it and (surprise surprise!) it delivered a promotional jingle for the Premier chain. I can still hum the tune and remember some of the doggerel, after all these years!

Perhaps you should take your question down to the pub. I have a question. I can only recall taking part in a pub quiz once (I'm not a big drinker) and that was one organised from my workplace, about 10-12 years ago - when mobile phones were not so 'smart' as they are now. I remember that my table came second - I suspected the winning table of cheating. So my question is, what steps do they take to stop people smuggling smartphones into pub quizzes?

[merseymouth]

Hi 661-Pete, Simple with lateral thinking, U.S. Military Bases, Burtonwood, Lakenheath, Mildenhall et al.
That is because British soil becomes U.S. Soil under various arrangements. They had supermarkets & bowling alleys before we'd even heard of such!
Similar novelties came about when Britain took charge of Woolworth Carriers under lend-lease, my father joined one such carrier, Coca Cola Machines!!!!!! . Mind you that novelty didn't last long with the Admiralty in charge, although fuel storage leaks did, which is how HMS Dasher blew up. TTFN MM

To answer your question a think none! Too many folk watch "Who wants to be a millionaire", so they all want to phone a friend

[squeaker]

What other examples can you put forward?

This git: because he can, I suppose Literally the only motor vehicle that parks like that regularly in this road

[djnotts]

Screwdriver and an alibi....

[pwa]

I saw a curious scene a few days ago that raised a dilemma. It was in Neath, on a tight little street with just a handful of legitimate parking spaces, a loading space, and yellow lines with dashes on the kerb everywhere else. A car had parked in the loading area outside the theatre so that it was unavailable to a lorry that arrived later. The lorry driver, presumably delivering to the theatre at a time selected by the theatre, had nowhere to stop other than on the double yellows with the yellow dashes on the kerb. Which is not allowed. Delivering on double yellows is allowed if it is deemed safe, but not where the kerb has markings. A traffic warden was paying attention to the lorry, but I hope he also had a look at the car that made the legitimate lorry space unavailable. What was the lorry driver supposed to do?

I should add that as far as I could see the lorry was not posing a problem in terms of safety.

[Cyril Haearn]

Obviously the warder should have dealt with the illegally parked car
The truck driver could have parked legally further away and used a trolley

Very often parking on double yellow lines just slows the mortons, Plus One!

[pwa]

Obviously the warder should have dealt with the illegally parked car
The truck driver could have parked legally further away and used a trolley

Very often parking on double yellow lines just slows the mortons, Plus One!

From memory, the neighbouring streets are occupied with a bus station or, in the other direction, pedestrianised, so the lorry driver would have been trolleying from a quarter of a mile away, assuming he could find a space. My own feeling is that car parking in that town centre location is so tight that it should be restricted to service vehicles such as the lorry and a few spaces for disabled users. Those able to walk should be doing just that.

Edit.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.662662, ... 6?hl=en-GB

This is the street ten years ago, the one and only time Google visited. The theatre had just suffered a fire but has since been refurbished and now seems to be thriving. Imagine driving a large lorry down there to deliver to staff at the theatre, only to find the one and only loading bay occupied by a parked car. Your next delivery could be in another town, so coming back later (when the situation might be the same) would not make sense. It must be a stressful job.

[merseymouth]

Hi PWA, I agree with your point that we should limit parking for the able bodied who really should be prepared to walk a bit.
One time I was delivering a substantial load of Fags & Chocs to Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. The loading area was filled by a chap sitting in a car, so I politely asked him to move, witnessed by a Traffic Warden. Response ? I need to park here as I'm picking someone up, I have a heart condition!
My points to the Traffic Warden were -1 why couldn't he arrange to pick up the able bodied passenger in a more appropriate place? -2 If he had a dodgy ticker did he think it was sensible to be driving?
That was a fair number of years ago, the problems are much worse now. Time to rein in the rot box, let the feet do the walking. MM