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[Daviewonder]

I'm the same. If my Mrs ever goes food shopping alone it's deadly. She can do a £100 shop and still not have anything for lunches or dinners.

[Carlos W]

 

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... 

 

You stole a car that wasn't on the list?

[AVV IT]

Why would anyone willingly push a shopping trolley around a supermarket these days though, let alone when heavily pregnant?

Have none of you heard of this thing called "online shopping", where you don't even have to leave the house? If you can't be bothered to wait around for someone to deliver it, then there's this thing called "click & collect" instead, where you order it on line, then drive to the store, open your boot, throw it all in, and then drive away!

No writing shopping lists
No pushing trolleys
No queing at the till
No impulse buying
No elderly people getting in the way, smelling of wee and generally making the experience even more miserable
No small children whining that they're bored/need the toilet half way around the store
No need to park in parking spaces at all (parent and child or otherwise)

Ultimately leaving you with more time to devote to the things that really matter in life (i.e to drink beer, tinker with minis and look at pictures of naked ladies on the interweb etc.)

[Ben_O]

Why would anyone willingly push a shopping trolley around a supermarket these days though, let alone when heavily pregnant?

Have none of you heard of this thing called "online shopping", where you don't even have to leave the house? If you can't be bothered to wait around for someone to deliver it, then there's this thing called "click & collect" instead, where you order it on line, then drive to the store, open your boot, throw it all in, and then drive away!

No writing shopping lists
No pushing trolleys
No queing at the till
No impulse buying
No elderly people getting in the way, smelling of wee and generally making the experience even more miserable
No small children whining that they're bored/need the toilet half way around the store
No need to park in parking spaces at all (parent and child or otherwise)

Ultimately leaving you with more time to devote to the things that really matter in life (i.e to drink beer, tinker with minis and look at pictures of naked ladies on the interweb etc.)

But then you have to rely on someone else with a poor attitude to their work to pick up everything for you. I like to choose my own cuts of meat and fresh produce to make sure i get the best they have in. Cant do that online 

[The Matt]

It's the only chance I get to leave the house these days.  I'm not getting any younger and it's the one thing I can really look forward to!

[M J W J]

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.

 

You might want to be a bit more careful what you say next time. Have you ever considered that they might be collecting someone who is disabled and have gone off to help them carry stuff back to the car?

 

I've had someone had a go at me for parking in a disabled parking space at Shrewsbury train station while clearly displaying a blue badge for the person I was collecting. Yes I can walk perfectly well but the person I was collecting can't, they can't carry their own luggage and they can't stand long enough for me to park elsewhere, run off to my car and drive back round the one way system to pick them up from outside the station.

 

At Shrewsbury Train station there is nowhere to sit once you are off the platforms.

[The Matt]

That's a good point, actually.  I wonder how often people are criticised for parking up in a disabled space, yet never seen helping someone back into the car a little while later?

[M J W J]

Its happened on more than one occasion and I just explain to people that I am collecting someone. This usually shuts them up or you get an grumbled apology but I had one person who kept having a go at me and wouldn't let me explain. I ended up walking off with them shouting at me across the car park.

 

I can understand when people don't display a disabled badge but whenever I pull into a car space I display my Gran's badge (it's her who I am collecting) which has her picture so they can see that its not for me.

 

The holder she has her badge in, has a built in clock face with a dial you can turn. It says above "I will be returning in:" and then you set the clock to how many minuets you will be gone. This means that whoever sees it knows you won't be longer than whatever you have set it to.

[HarrysMini]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought only the badge holder is allowed to park using the badge? Or are you allowed to use the badge to collect the badge holder?

[Miniminx71]

No. You can display the badge to collect the badge holder. You can't use it for things like running errands or visiting them though I don't think.

[M J W J]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought only the badge holder is allowed to park using the badge? Or are you allowed to use the badge to collect the badge holder?

 

You can use a blue badge in any car as long as it is for the purpose of travel for the disabled person. The wording on the badge is a little ambiguous but if you can't use it to park a car where a disabled person can get to it then its not really of any use so kind of defeats the purpose of them.

 

I've just learnt from my mum that with a blue badge although you still have to pay for parking you are granted an extra hour for the same price in shropshire (mum works as a home help carer). This doesn't mean you get 1 hour free though so you can't park for 1 hour without paying its just if you pay for 1 hour you can stay there for 2, if you pay for 2 then stay for 3 and so on.

Edited by M J W J, 29 June 2014 - 08:52 PM.

[Miniminx71]

I do miss seeing these around. I'd love to have a go in one.

 

 

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[robminibcy]

whilst i agree with the frustration towards those misusing blue badges spaces ect. We need to be very careful we don't judge someone without knowing the full details. Until 4 years ago my dad suffered with kidney faliure. This required dyalasis 4 times a day and left him feeling permanently weak and tired. He had a blue badge and to the untrained eye looked to be a normal and healthy middle aged man. Yet after 15 mins walking i can garantee he would be in a worse state than most 80+ year olds who also have blue badges. He received several comments for his 'misuse' of disabled bays. He has since had a transplant and surrendered the blue badge.

[CityEPete]

Like I said in my earlier post my sister gets abuse, mainly off old people for not "looking" disabled, she has one leg amputated high up well above the knee and no use of her left arm from the shoulder down at all. When she was in her early 20s she had a bright yellow mr2 (imported to get an auto) lots of people walking past muttered stuff if she was in the car with the window down parked in a disabled bay, she has had old people ask her to move from a parent and child bay when she has two kids in tow because there is no disabled bays left even though they didnt have a blue badge either, she trumps them on both bays!, lol

Edited by CityEPete, 29 June 2014 - 09:43 PM.

[Miniminx71]

Sadly, I think society has become too intolerant because of the common abuse of the blue badge. It's everywhere. There was a programme on a little while back (Parking Wars?) or something where they had a Council bloke who just knew when a badge was being abused and would lurk about catching people. He hung around waiting for this woman parked on double yellows in London who then jumped up and down saying she'd taken the holder to hospital or something but was then late for work so just had to keep on using the badge etc etc. Just wouldn't hold her hands up and admit she'd done something wrong. She got towed away. Unfortunately, it's all those a******s abusing the system that cause genuine users to be eyed with suspicion.