Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Generali

Another lovely day here, high 20s and sunny.

Re the staff car park thing, I used to work in a shop in a town centre which had a staff car park. People used to park in all the spaces and then down the middle of the car park blocking everyone else in!

We put in a boom gate and a lock but each time we opened the gate to let the delivery lorry in we'd leave it unlocked so the driver could get back out again and none of use would have to leave a busy shop floor to let him out. Inevitably, people would park for 'free' in our car park. When they came into the shop to be let out (we'd lock them in) we'd tell them the car park belonged to the offices upstairs and they'd have to come back on Monday. The problem died away over the following few months.

Club together and put a boom gate in place or even to buy an old banger to block the entrance to the car park.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Grrrr.

My lovely short length of post and rail road side has been crashed into over night. The whole thing has been shunted, and one post and a couple of rails are completely shattered.

I resent that our pocket pays for the inepptitude but more fundamentally the dishonesty of a driver.

You have my sympathy. It's totally unfair.

Can you get someone in to fix it toot sweet, or is it not that important?

lemonjelly

I'm ridiculously busy, hence not about.

Haven't time to read the past 8 pages since was last here. If anyone can do a summary, that'd be great.

On a music theme, Someone played me a track off the This Is England OST, & I ended up listening to this guy:
http://uk.myspace.com/music/player?pid=44843&ac=now&owner=129752490

Indeed, I like it so much I found he is doing a concert in Birmingham next year, & bought tickets...

Really lovely music though.

lemonjelly

Forgot to mention, Lloyds are making me very :mad: at the moment...

lemonjelly

oh, & madness were superb, as ever...

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

I had a bit of a scrape with another car in the car park at work a few weeks ago. I was running late (hence the careless parking) and had nothing to write on, so I just made a mental note of the registration number and dashed off to teach my lessons. At break I went along to the person who organises parking permits and asked her to look up who the car belonged to so I could let them know it was me etc. It turned out the car wasn't one of ours and shouldn't have been in our car park. By the time I had finished teaching and got back to the car park, it had gone. Not sure whether I should feel guilty for not leaving a note, or that it served them right for taking up one of our spaces. (Parking around where I work is a nightmare, and the school has more staff than parking places, so we often have to park on street quite some distance away.)

The law of the road doesn't stop just because they didn't have a permit to park there. That is a different issue which is down to the parking management to address.

If the car was old and had a couple of "dings" then I'd not be too upset but if it was new and you'd created a bad scratch/dent then you could have done more to contact them.
On saying that, many don't bother and at least you "enquired".

I suppose you have to think how you would feel if it happened to you and no note was left.

LydiaJ

sss555s wrote: »

The law of the road doesn't stop just because they didn't have a permit to park there. That is a different issue which is down to the parking management to address.

If the car was old and had a couple of "dings" then I'd not be too upset but if it was new and you'd created a bad scratch/dent then you could have done more to contact them.
On saying that, many don't bother and at least you "enquired".

I suppose you have to think how you would feel if it happened to you and no note was left.

But sss, I never thought that it was OK for me to avoid responsibility just because it wasn't supposed to be parked there. I didn't know it wasn't one of ours, and I certainly wasn't trying to avoid my liabilities.

I looked in my bag and car for something to write a note on and couldn't find anything. This particular car park is several minutes' walk away from the school buildings, so if I'd gone into school to get some paper and then gone back to the car park to leave a note I'd have missed half my lesson with a class of 11 year olds who were waiting for me, so I breathed a sigh of relief that the accident had happened in the school car park and there was another way of getting in touch with the driver. I went and taught my lesson and then as soon as I had a chance I went to find out whose car it was. By the time I had an opportunity to go back to the car park the car was no longer there.

When I discovered that the car didn't belong to a member of staff, I left messages so that if the person had enquired at the school as to who had damaged their car, the school would have told them. They didn't though.

How did I feel when my car was damaged by somebody who didn't leave a note? Annoyed, obviously. That was on the street, though. How would I feel if I found out (in some unspecified way) that the person had tried to get in touch by an obvious method but hadn't been able to because I had parked where I wasn't supposed to be? Pretty stupid, probably. But then I'm a rather conformist rule-keeping sort of person. I don't park in permit-only places if I haven't got a permit, and in all my years of driving I've had two previous run-ins with parked cars and left notes both times - not that the people bothered to contact me in either case about very minor scrapes.

My comment about it serving them right wasn't supposed to justify any intentional failure to communicate with the person. It was just an expression of how frustrating I find the school's parking problems. I've been assuming all this time that the cars filling up the car parks all belonged to actual members of staff, and now realise that apparently some of them are opportunistic outsiders, and that makes me feel :mad:

StevieJ

How ironic

Mexico
Ethnic Mayans themselves are largely uninterested in the so-called ‘prophecy’.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mayan-apocalypse-2012--how-the-world-s-believers-are-preparing-for-the-end-135520325.html

sss555s

Lydia, you did do more than a lot would do and tried to do the right thing. Your still a nice person

They probably felt guilty because they shouldn't have been parking there and put it down as a lesson learned, or never noticed until later.

It's frustrating about the parking problem and that a more professional system isn't in place to stop unauthorised users. I'm aware of certain hospitals where the staff have to pay to park "at work" and there are still no spaces. They have to cram in everywhere and also get fined for illegal parking.

zagubov

StevieJ wrote: »

How ironic

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mayan-apocalypse-2012--how-the-world-s-believers-are-preparing-for-the-end-135520325.html

Now this guy can make predictions! Derren Brown's one of his fans and he's Uni of Herts-based.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9nleiFogc

And lj, thanks for the Einaudi link. Here's another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qvglWAHDak

I think you might enjoy a visit to this thread. Actually all NPs might.:T