Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

looby75

headcovers wrote:

Why does everyone assume that just because one chooses not to have children that one's life will somehow be incomplete. I have fought this prejudice all my life.

I don't have children and there isn't a day I don't thank God for that fact!

....especially as I gaze out at my 2 sport coupes on the drive. :rotfl:

I think it's great that people who don't want children have that choice, I think it's great that they realise that they may just not be cut out for parenting or that they just enjoy their life too much as it is to have a child messing things up. Better that than they bring a child that they don't really want into the world just because it's expected of them.

What gets my goat is when those very same people, who I respect have a right not to have children, go on to dismiss the right and some of the small privileges or concessions I get because I chose to have children. Like it or not, no matter how well you provide for yourself financially there will come a time in your life where you will need the children of today to help look after you in some small way. That is unless you are planning to stay 100% fit, young and healthy forever All the money in the world can't help you get better when you are ill if there are no doctors to treat you, or sort you central heating in your house out if there are no plumbers, or.....well I'm sure you catch my drift.

carrie483

Why do people seem to think that if you have children you can't have a sports car??

mishkanorman

just to get back to the original point of the thread,

My mum and me often shop in asda and have had the problem of not getting a parent and child space and having to re-park the car in the road to load the kids in, so she had a word with the manager about getting more spaces and putting them further away from the store to deter people from using them un-neccessarily and he said

if there is a disabled bay use it they wont ticket those with visable car seats !!

so how can one asda have such a relaxed attitude and another gives you a ticket.

Has the original poster paid the fine ??
I havent read all the posts as it diverted into a petty squabble over people not taking the kids shopping and others having posh cars

mishka

Poppy9

carrie483 wrote:

Why do people seem to think that if you have children you can't have a sports car??

More worrying is why do people seem to think material possessions like a car are more important than human beings.

carrie483

mishkanorman wrote:

just to get back to the original point of the thread,

My mum and me often shop in asda and have had the problem of not getting a parent and child space and having to re-park the car in the road to load the kids in, so she had a word with the manager about getting more spaces and putting them further away from the store to deter people from using them un-neccessarily and he said

if there is a disabled bay use it they wont ticket those with visable car seats !!

so how can one asda have such a relaxed attitude and another gives you a ticket.

Has the original poster paid the fine ??
I havent read all the posts as it diverted into a petty squabble over people not taking the kids shopping and others having posh cars

mishka

Which Asda was this? He deserves to have a complaint made against him.

The squabble was more over people parking in bays when the shouldn't.

carrie483

Poppy9 wrote:

More worrying is why do people seem to think material possessions like a car are more important than human beings.

One word: Ignorance.

I'm all for people choosing to not have kids if they wish but that doesn't give them the right to think they are better off then those that do.

looby75

Poppy9 wrote:

More worrying is why do people seem to think material possessions like a car are more important than human beings.

to be fair different people have different priorities in life, that's what makes the world go round. If we all thought exactly the same we would all be mums or we would all be doctors or even the unimaginable...estate agents LOL

I have absolutely NO problem with someone no wanting kids and having a more materialistic outlook on life than I do. What I do have a problem with is someone telling me they have a better life than I do because I have kids and they don't. It's all swings and roundabouts.

Woby_Tide

headcovers wrote:

Why does everyone assume that just because one chooses not to have children that one's life will somehow be incomplete. I have fought this prejudice all my life.

I don't have children and there isn't a day I don't thank God for that fact!

....especially as I gaze out at my 2 sport coupes on the drive. :rotfl:

Why does everyone assume that just because one chooses not to have sports coupes that one's life will somehow be incomplete. I have fought this prejudice all my life.

I don't have sports coupes and there isn't a day I don't thank God for that fact!

....especially as I gaze out at my bog standard hatchback on the drive. :rotfl:



(I actually thought the original post might be some elaborate joke in a Harry Enfield "considerably richer than yow" style, but it isn't:rolleyes: oh dear

Woby_Tide

taxiphil wrote:

If a parent does not have the basic skills required to get their child from one side of a car park to the other without being squashed, I think a serious question mark hangs over their parenting ability.

Yet you get upset that a large percentage of adults don't have the basic skills to park in a space and get all doors open without smacking into another car. I guess the solution is to remove parent and child spaces then everyone is happy. The childless people get to see children running a higher risk of being hit by a vehicle whilst the parents get the enjoyment of seeing sports coupes having their doors trashed by over exuberant door opening, everyones a winner.

Poppy9

looby75 wrote:

.......even the unimaginable...estate agents LOL

I did say Human beings not EA:p