Door Denters!!!!!!!!!

Because one or other of us would go stir crazy, and because the Broughton park has more than a supermarket. There's a whole parade of pikey shops to visit. Woolies, Next, Addidas etc.

FWIW, it's a nice non-threatening hour out of the same 4 walls. A family activity with plenty of toilets, and bottle warmers in every store ;-)

Once we can cope with this, we'll possibly branch out to other "Family days out".

IMO, it's the barely functional pikeys who stumble into the store, and then stand around, with their trolleys at 90 degrees to the aisle, staring around vacantly, desparately trying to remember why they're here.

I (for one) have had enough of this, so just barge my way through, knocking the trolleys out of the way. Same with a trolley left more than 2 feet from a shelf.

She'll also be told (when she's old enough to understand) that if we go shopping as a family, she'll be on best behaviour, or not come at all. I agree with your comments about the hordes of ill-mannered brats. If mine grows up to be a brat (and I hope she doesn't), don't worry, I'll not be inflicting her on everyone else until she can behave!

I go so that I can complain about people without babies clogging up the parent & baby bays ;-)

Pete.

I suppose I can see your point.. But family days out are fine, supermarkets just seem silly jaunts IMO :)

This place is mainly a retirement town, so sub pikeys for blue rinses... I'm waiting to get banned because I tend to go shopping to go shopping, not stare at the rows of coffee and tut about the price as I yearn wistfully for the good old days of the blitz...

That's fair enough then :) Children who don't actually scream, whinge, meander meaninglessly, or do any of the other massively irritating things are fine. I don't believe in seen and not heard, but seen and not heard in a shop is only fair. Not everyone feels a warm glow from someone's bundle of joy wailing it's head off!

lmao

I wonder sometimes if I'm allowed to use the bays at midnight (24hr Tescos)... Surely even the worst inflicters of breeding aren't going to try and ruin the peace at that time of night?! :)

Or another point of view - I have to be inconvenienced and carry my shopping further just because some prick decided to have a baby, and society favours those with babies?

Never fails to amaze me that in a country already quite full of people, we welcome with open arms anyone who creates even more people, and cast aside those who don't...

And I wonder how much CO2 a new life gives off every day, compared to a car that is taxed to the hilt and runs for maybe an hour a day..? ;)

When I grew up, my dad had a rear engined Renault 4CV. This was the family car that took the whole family plus camping equipment on holidays in Europe. Now times are different:

One baby -> Must have an estate car. Two tiny children -> Must have an enormous 4x4. Two children of school age -> Dad keeps the 4x4, mum gets A huge people carrier.

In my day (I'm 30) we walked to school! That's right - even primary school, which was a 25 minute walk from the house. I believe you get done for child abuse these days if you make your kids walk to school (or so you'd think looking at any school entrance in the morning).

Jealous?

Leaving it in the disabled bay isn't on as people genuinely needing to use the disabled bays may have trouble walking a longer distance to the shop/store. However why does it take an entire family to go shopping? We never do either myself or my other half takes in it turns. Walla someone at home to look after the kid.

Hi "rovereab"

Its a brilliant excuse for a company car driver to excuse his own invisible bollard damage, just put down on the form that the vehicle was damaged in ASDA!!

Without meaning to be provocative, dare I say "Taxi".

And Taxis are everywhere at the drop of a hat?

Book one before your visit.

Too complicated. And I'd rather trust the condition of tyres, brakes and steering of my own car.

In the case of yesterday, it was carrying shopping 16 feet further. Hardly back-breaking.

Society favours those with babies, because without babies, there's no society very, very quickly. (Whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is a whole new kettle of fish!)

Pete.

Now that's funny!

I use the terms they used on Spitting Image...

"Blankets turned sides to middle" "Couldn't get bananas"

etc, when ever anyone goes on about how good "the old days were"

I certainly don't get a warm glow from my _own_ bundle of joy wailing its head off.

You'd be surprised. Sometimes, a car trip is the only thing that gets some of them off to sleep!

Pete.

I'd argue that the across-the-board favouritism applied to those with babies is detrimental to any society. Of course babies are important, but surely any reasonable society would only be in favour of reproduction by individuals who are capable of looking after their offspring properly.

Best one I've had was in an Ada carpark funnily enough. I had reversed into a space right at the end of the parking spaces so I was beside the kerb which is filled with those jaggy bushes and gravel, with my rear to the space behind me. When I came out of the shop, I found someone had reversed into the space behind me. Only problem was that they had rode up the kerb while backing in and managed to drop the rear plastic of their sporty looking Honda right into the tow hook of my 740 estate. I put my shopping in the back seat, hung around for a bit to see if the owner would appear, but eventually drove off after finishing my cigarette. Rear of the Honda didn't look too healthy.

So you're going to have to live with the door denters, I'm afraid!

We're back to the Chavs & Pikeys again, aren't we? :-)

Pete.

I know what pikeys are, but never heard of chavs.

I'm broadly referring to welfare scrounging unemployed young parents.