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Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Oh don't Savvy this is a zebra crossing on a public road and sadly the majority of people using it are at best annoyed that they have to stop to let a large number of schoolchildren use it to get home

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Sorry. You put me off onto a tangent onto something else that I had been thinking before. I entirely agree that people should stop for schoolchildren and can see that can be rightly upsetting if these idiots that don't stop or reckless drivers or people that park inconsiderately are allowed to rule the roost. It's very stressful having to deal with such inconsiderate people. I'm entirely in support of you and very sorry if I caused any upset.

It's a school crossing - it's round school run times (or even if it's not you expect the occasional person still to be wishing to cross) - and if you're around at busy times then what else can you expect?!?

Eyespy_2

fairclaire wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: I never even thought well it is the big light

Must admit I tittered when I read the big light, it has always been the big light in my family but Peter Kay did a whole sketch on the big light and it still makes me laugh now :rotfl:

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Sorry. You put me off onto a tangent onto something else that I had been thinking before. I entirely agree that people should stop for schoolchildren and can see that can be rightly upsetting if these idiots that don't stop or reckless drivers or people that park inconsiderately are allowed to rule the roost. It's very stressful having to deal with such inconsiderate people. I'm entirely in support of you and very sorry if I caused any upset.

It's a school crossing - it's round school run times (or even if it's not you expect the occasional person still to be wishing to cross) - and if you're around at busy times then what else can you expect?!?

NOO! you didn't cause me any upset and I'm sure never could (that's not an invite to try )

:rotfl:

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

I made it up :rotfl:

http://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/2tqso-zebra-crossings-supermarket-carpark-no-lights.html

I suppose parking in disabled bays in supermarket cp's is also not breaking any law. but I never do it and it annoys me when able bodied peeps do. (without badge in car)

It'll be contract claimed again I presume. Unless it's a proper council-owned pay and display car park that happens to be attached to the supermarket premises.

Nonetheless, careful what you mean by "able-bodied". (I suppose, to be pedantic, not able-bodied does not include not able-minded, such as myself having a "defect of the mind", technical. However, non-pedantically, it could just mean "not disabled".) People who are not disabled (probably fewer people than we think?:think:) should not park in a disabled bay. However, if by "able-bodied" you mean "not disabled", then what about disabled people who have no entitlement to park in a disabled parking space as they do not qualify for a disabled parking badge?

I have a disability, however it is not of a type that qualifies for a disabled parking badge (purely factual: I am not saying that I should qualify), and of course I comply with rules (or endeavour to, probably more so than almost anyone else despite any appearance from earlier instance) and I do not park in a disabled bay as I do not have a disabled badge. I would never dream of doing so. Those spaces exist, nearer the supermarket entrances, to allow people who have mobility or similar problems easier access than they'd otherwise have. And I think that's right. And, of course, anyone who isn't entitled who is parking there is taking up the space, being selfish and making it more difficult for someone else in much greater need.

Sometimes, what about - and I'm being stereotypical - I ought not to be - but it's necessary for the point - women with pushchairs, a young child in the pushchair and several other young kids in tow? To what extent can a woman struggling with kids and a pushchair be classed as "disabled", or equivalent, maybe, to someone with a disability? (Depends what disability and it's a scale that affects people to greater and lesser extent - how are we to know how someone else really struggles that isn't obvious to us?)

Good point, thought provoking hopefully but let me get back to money-saving...(It's, sort of, relevant to people's access to supermarkets and therefore money-saving opportunities*. I suppose... if I stretch it a bit:rotfl:...)

*As well as many more(?) opportunities to spend far more money than they should!:eek: HTH people to be aware and work out how to avoid that situation:D.

robyn297

springdreams wrote: »

Nope. Our larger supermarkets are called Pick n Pay, Checkers, OK Bazaars and the smaller ones are Spar (about the size of a typical Co-op).

I thought I had hit the jackpot when I first encountered an Asda and a Tesco as superstores are so much bigger here than they are in South Africa. I couldn't believe that there were two aisles full of bread and bakery items. And the varieties available in these items ..... unbelievable!!

There is also no 24 hour shopping. Stores close at lunch time on Saturday and open again on Monday morning. And you cannot buy alcohol on a Sunday.

I also couldn't beleive the section available when we first moved here, when my mum comes over to visit she spends hours wandering around Asda and Sainsburys, :rotfl:.

It must be a good few years that you left SA then, shops are open Sundays now . But there isn't always running water and electricity now days

aau1

Bananababe wrote: »

Put the big light on , you're so Scottish !!

Poor bairn hope its not too sare xx

You say that as if there people who don't call it the big light? :eek:

Eyespy_2

Colgate Extra Clean 3pk Toothbrushes £1.98 A v T £1.00 but 80p cashback with shopitize is back. This was on a couple of weeks ago too.

Nice filler against a T shop.

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

NOO! you didn't cause me any upset and I'm sure never could (that's not an invite to try )

:rotfl:

Oh, I definitely might try then if it's not an invite!:D:rotfl::rotfl:

Glad I didn't upset you - I went off on a tangent, taking a detail out of your post but not seeing the full post or the context (once again), as I'm sure you probably suspect.:happylove

Savvybuyer

springdreams wrote: »

Nope. Our larger supermarkets are called Pick n Pay, Checkers, OK Bazaars and the smaller ones are Spar (about the size of a typical Co-op).

I thought I had hit the jackpot when I first encountered an Asda and a Tesco as superstores are so much bigger here than they are in South Africa. I couldn't believe that there were two aisles full of bread and bakery items. And the varieties available in these items ..... unbelievable!!

There is also no 24 hour shopping. Stores close at lunch time on Saturday and open again on Monday morning. And you cannot buy alcohol on a Sunday.

Pick n Pay Brand Match:D:D. I didn't realise we had people here from abroad:doh:. But, how do we know which stores of the competitors, in which localities, have been checked by the Pick n Pay people and what the prices they have got would be? I chanced upon the T&Cs (and TV advert) for that supermarket - didn't seem much use to me, if I had been in S.A. - think best just to shop at the competitors (of course it's mixed basket, where people mix cheaper items with expensive ones and thus most people lose any benefit - so they can't really get everything the cheapest at all, unless somehow they could work out what data had been collected and work out whether the store was OOS at the specific time the collectors happened to visit that particular rival store - not like "our" (well, I suppose it is mainly ours:rotfl:) APG where they include OOS items if there is a SEL (in M) and most of the comparisons (i.e. vs T, S, W) are from, in theory, publicly seen information available on msm website (even though that doesn't help if it's been updated but the APG not yet)).

I suspect that sort of thing goes out of the window if on a holiday, how can you check where the best price of everything is? That's what happened with me when I was incommunicado - only in Inverness:rotfl: - were on a holiday, just bought everything (which wasn't much - we took most things with us or otherwise was part of the holiday) from the nearby M, without worrying about cost, as we had no access to a car for the week and that was just nearest to where we were staying. We got back okay, and then I tried to catch up with where the prices had gone everywhere in the few weeks I'd been away.

(Inverness, Scotland, as opposed to Inverness, Florida or even Inverness, California.)

Tw1nb0ys

Yesterday I was stood at a crossing waiting for the green man. It is a particular complicated series of crossings, you have to wait for 3 consecutive green men to get across the entire road.

Anyway I was patiently waiting for the green Man, it was around school pick up time. 2 PCSO's just casually walked across when the man was still red. I told them they really should be leading by example and wait for the green man. To which theyreplied, believe it or not we have places to go!

I said oh yeah, I'm sure you would accept that excuse if a child did it!
:mad::mad::mad: really annoys me when people don't wait fir the green nan. This particular junction is busy and traffic can get you from 3 directions.

Rant over