- Location
- London
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Blinkered parking!
- Thread starter Sandra6
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- Location
- London
You folk would really blow a gasket if you lived in Italy - home of couldn't give a shoot <ah the cchat robot's charming efforts to protect our innocent minds>> parking. Parking on zebras is minor league compared to some of the stuff you see.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
It's on a road leading up to a certain suburb of Bristol that 'inspired' Vicky Pollard.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Huge free car parks are another bugbear - supermarkets don't pay the going rate for the land and it gives them an unfair commercial advantage. 'Free' car parks should be taxed heavily to reflect their true cost to society.
None of this is 'singling out' anyone. It's unfortunate that any punitive taxation on private cars is necessarily regressive but it is necessary for the long-term functioning of society. And it can be implemented as part of a progressive policy to improve public transport and cycling facilities designed to make it easier for people to ditch the car.
People are driving cars they can't afford, and that's not good for anyone in the long run.
Yep, hence the moronic selfish parking you regularly witness in my local Tesco car park.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Why drive to Tesco when they'll deliver for free, or for a nominal fee?
This is crazy but so true. Some folk just need to give the pretence of wealth though for their own ego. I just can't get my head around that some people would pay £300 or £400 a month for something like an Astra which they'll not even own at the end of a few years.
On supermarket parking, don't even start. It's just an accumulation of the most selfish people where the 'me first' mentality is in overdrive.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Street parking round my way forms a kind of informal traffic-calming. Every corner is required to have a whacking great van parked on it.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Similar to @Saluki 's tale
Waaay back in the day when I was a student one of our friends had a car (a 2CV) - very few students did in those days. Anyway, she got blocked by someone parking across her driveway, so me and my mate, being two large chaps, bounced the offending vehicle away from the driveway, into the middle of the road so she could get out, and left it there.
Looking back on it, not the cleverest thing to have done, but students aren't expected to be clever are they?
Waaay back in the day when I was a student one of our friends had a car (a 2CV) - very few students did in those days. Anyway, she got blocked by someone parking across her driveway, so me and my mate, being two large chaps, bounced the offending vehicle away from the driveway, into the middle of the road so she could get out, and left it there.
Looking back on it, not the cleverest thing to have done, but students aren't expected to be clever are they?
spen666
Legendary Member
Also, Tescos tend to look dimly on you taking their trolleys away, let alone on the bus.
BTW, do I need to get the trolley to tap in on the oyster card reader to pay for its fare?
You can get a new Astra for £136 a month with a quick google.
You'd probably need a credit check and finance options arranged too.
It would seem good value to many who need a new car.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
Have you ever been on board an aircraft carrier?
Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
Not a Tesco trolley, one of those tartan bags on a wheeled frame that supergran bools along
spen666
Legendary Member
Now that is low, it's one thing to pinch a trolley from Tesco's, but it's wrong to pinch one of those off some old lady