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[megamini_jb]

Everyone always seems to be in a hurry. Then there's me just pottering along

[Ben_O]

I get alot of satisfaction out of doing 30 in a 30 zone with some idiot behind be on my bumper flashing his lights to get me to speed up. Not happening my friend!

 

Plus sticking to 56 on the motorway really does save alot of petrol!

 

Typical journey from Portsmouth to Sittingbourne in kent is around 110 miles.If i do 56-60 MPH all the way i can do it on less than 1/4 tank (about 10-12 quid) whereas i have done the journey and stuck to 70ish MPH and used over 1/4 tank (about £18-20)

 

Not much difference i know but every little helps and i'm never in a hurry.

 

No brainer really

[Stiggytoo]

At my local leisure centre there are about 15 - 20 disabled parking bays. I can understand having like 5 bays, but even still at a leisure centre, where people go to do sports and such do we really need them? 

Needless to say I only ever see perfectly healthy varieties parking there with their non wheelchair friendly beemers and Mercs.  

[AVV IT]

There's a load of disabled parking bays outside the gym that I go to. I only ever see the same middle aged woman use them though. She parks her car in the disabled bay right by the door, displays her blue badge, then goes in the gym and does half an hour on the tread mill!! What's that all about???

[Stiggytoo]

If I see someone who clearly isn't in a wheelchair, or will have no trouble walking to wherever it is they are going, I'll always mutter, 'Oh...Must be mentally disabled then.'

It's the same if they've parked diagonally across the space.

Edited by Stiggytoo, 28 June 2014 - 07:52 PM.

[Bungle]

There's a load of disabled parking bays outside the gym that I go to. I only ever see the same middle aged woman use them though. She parks her car in the disabled bay right by the door, displays her blue badge, then goes in the gym and does half an hour on the tread mill!! What's that all about???

 

always makes me laugh at people driving to the gym

 

 

if they had walked they wouldn't need to go or spend as long at the gym

[megamini_jb]

When I used to go gym I used to go straight to mcdonalds for a Big Mac meal and extra burger after

Edited by megamini_jb, 28 June 2014 - 08:12 PM.

[Berrybox]

What really winds me up is when the disabled badged cars are parked in the very limited parking permit spaces down my road! Annoys me because they are the only people allowed to park on the other side of the road with single yellows. But they never do! So i come home from work and have to hang about for an hour waiting to get a permit space that i have to pay for! Grrrr.

[Broomer]

I always park in those spaces. I ain't got no kids, I'm a bad ass and who's going to stop me ?

Edited by Broomer, 28 June 2014 - 09:07 PM.

[MaxAndPaddy]

I always park in those spaces. I ain't got no kids, I'm a bad ass and who's going to stop me ?

 

That's life on the edge, next its stealing toilet rolls from Macdonalds  and grabbing an extra couple of ketchup n mayo's from Burger King.....fight the fight

[Carlos W]

I'll be going to Asda with the Mrs in the morning!

She struggles to push the trolley (5 weeks until she drops) I'll be using the parent and child space

[Miniminx71]

Carlos W, on 29 Jun 2014 - 12:16 AM, said:

I'll be going to Asda with the Mrs in the morning!

She struggles to push the trolley (5 weeks until she drops) I'll be using the parent and child space

Why aren't you pushing the trolley then??? Poor woman

[Carlos W]

Carlos W, on 29 Jun 2014 - 12:16 AM, said:

I'll be going to Asda with the Mrs in the morning!

She struggles to push the trolley (5 weeks until she drops) I'll be using the parent and child space

Why aren't you pushing the trolley then??? Poor woman

Up until very recently I didn't go food shopping with her, she doesn't like me going as I rush her, and she has everything ordered on the list for where it is in the store. But now she needs me to push the trolley and lift the bags in and out of the car

[The Matt]

Isn't everybody's shopping list written in aisle order?

I have to do that, years of zig-zagging around the shops with my missus has meant that not only do I do the shopping alone, I do it in order.

I also back the trolley into the till so it's scanned and packed in the correct order. Is that weird?

As for parking up, I just couldn't park in a disabled or parent and child space. It'd be just wrong!

[Ben_O]

Isn't everybody's shopping list written in aisle order?

I have to do that, years of zig-zagging around the shops with my missus has meant that not only do I do the shopping alone, I do it in order.

I also back the trolley into the till so it's scanned and packed in the correct order. Is that weird?

As for parking up, I just couldn't park in a disabled or parent and child space. It'd be just wrong!

I also prefer to shop alone.

 

If we go together armed with a list, My GF still gets carried away adding stuff that isn't on the list. We are always in there about an hour and i get very impatient.

 

When i go alone, we write the list together and i am in and out. Everything on the list and nothing more.

 

Makes me sound really boring and strict now i have written it down...