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People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
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( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:31, 15 replies)
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Having worked in the "Disability" work sector I can tell you they hand out ACROD stickers like lollies @ a paedo convention.
( , Sat 2 Apr 2011, 8:28, closed)
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Supermarkets recognise that not only do Parent & Child spaces make life a bit easier for customers with children (who spend significantly, instore), by placing them nearer to the store and making them wider, they reduce the chance that other cars will be damaged, be that by being hit by a flung open door, or running over an errant child.
Suck it up.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:38, closed)
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but I genuinely hadn't thought of the risk of damage to my car. Or the guilt I'd briefly feel if I actually ran over a child in a car park come to that.
I may have to revise my thinking. Purely for selfish reasons, i don't want anyone thinking I've gone soft.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:42, closed)
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People will start to think we fancy each other, or something.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:54, closed)
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I hate you for making me change my mind you unbearable cunt.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:55, closed)
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But they are wider - to allow access for pushchairs etc and to allow the doors to open wide for abstracting car seats.
In practice they are often near the disabled bays but I think that's usually for convenience rather than policy.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 13:43, closed)
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Although the argument about kids throwing doors open is also valid. Perhaps I should stop see it as an " unfair blessing for the people with their kiddies" and more "Ha! You've been made to stay awaaaay from me!".
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:05, closed)
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I hate nothing at the moment, I am full of yippee...
whatever the fuck that may be.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:07, closed)
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Welcome to a world of sneering at anyone who dares to complain about the site when they haven't got an icon.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:40, closed)
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I've used "Parent and Child" parking spaces when going to the supermarket with my mum. Despite the fact that I'm in my thirties and she's over sixty, she's my parent and I'm her child.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:40, closed)
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Folks with kids will typically spend more on weekly shopping than folks without. The supermarkets understand this and are simply enticing us parents to shop there, rather than elsewhere.
Economics.
And what makes you think I expect preferential treatment? How tesco choose to maximise footfall is their business.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:41, closed)
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Irrational hatreds, yeah? This surely ticks that box. There are sound reasons for it, but the OP still hates it. Job's a good'un
( , Sat 2 Apr 2011, 1:51, closed)
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