Ok I secretly know I am being a bit unreasonable but I need to rant so please indulge me and tell me the steam coming out of my ears is perfectly acceptable!
Just got back from holiday and parked the car with NCP at Gatwick and the sodding shuttle bus made us fold DS's buggy both ways. Outbound I was a bit cross but it was busy so accepted that (in spite of the enormous suitcases gratuitously blocking the aisles) I ought to do so for the sake of cramming more people onto the bus.
But on the way back the shuttle was almost empty and the driver still made me fold DS's buggy, in spite of the fact that we were wrestling with three enormous suitcases, plus a rucksack, plus hand luggage, plus of course sodding folded buggy. It was a total power trip on the part of the driver - there was no reason why we couldn't have got on with the buggy, we were the last people in the queue and the bus pulled out as soon as we'd got on, so it wasn't even as if he was saving space for more.
To add insult to injury he informed me it was a company policy that all buggies have to be folded to secure "the safety of your child". I would like to know on what planet it is safer to have a wildly over-excited toddler staggering around unsecured?
I've frequently travelled with Pink Elephant who have no problem with letting you use a buggy - why are NCP so weird about them?
Ok, rant over.