to be gleeful that all the twats who park right outside John Lewis at Bluewater got parking tickets today?

[BalloonSlayer]

Needless to say the car park was half-empty.

Heh heh heh

Go on, flame me. Poor little four wheel drive owners get so tired climbing in and out of them, they can't be expected to walk 50 yards.

Park where??? Out at the front? I always park just outside but obviously in a marked bay - I can't picture where you mean. Oh, and I drive a 4x4 - wtf has that got to do with it???

haha!

It's not as if the car parks aren't large enough to park properly is it?

Are they on double yellows there or something? Are the carpark spaces big enough for their vehicles? And why does it make you so happy?

Right outside the front doors, and down the approach road too. Not marked bays.

Sorry to offend you littledawley but a significant proportion of them are always four wheel drives (ie more than the proportion of 4WDs on the road). I always notice as I have to walk around the cars - sometimes several times - to try to get the buggy through.

Result!!!

I wonder if I can get the same parking wardens to come up here and ticket the parents who park right outside the nursery in the KEEP CLEAR area, or the parents who park outside the school across people's driveways, on the pavement or who double park

it's all free though sin't it? why would they get tickets?

It is ridiculous to park somewhere like that at Bluewater as there is masses of parking, especially midweek. I just hate that everyone picks on 4x4 drivers...

Yay, now just wish they would ticket all the ones in the "collection" bays. I sat for 40 minutes to get a spot the other day, no way were they all collecting

I've never seen anyone get a ticket at Bluewater, even when parked in the most ridiculous spaces.
YANBU
There are even loading bays near John Lewis for it you are picking something big up.

BoF it makes me happy mainly because I am a sour old bitch whose middle name is Schadenfreude, but also because it's often difficult to get a buggy into the shopping centre because of the cars parked nose to tail at the entrance. Also there is a small zebra crossing which is usually blocked off.

But as I say, mainly the first reason

Brilliant!

I can't stand it when people park there, it's always impossible to get a buggy through the gaps left. And there are so many parent and child spaces now, there's no excuse.

"it's all free though sin't it? why would they get tickets?"

• yes weird isn't it? I presume there are signs warning people not to park there. I have never noticed any though, just thought it was fecking obvious that if there are a gazillion parking spaces that those are what one should attempt to place ones vehicle in.

Yanbu
I wish parki g wardens would come and ticket the parents at DD's school who park inthe massive bay right in front of the school clearly marked 'Fire access only'. I always wonder what kind of a fuss those parents would kick up if there was ever a fire (god forbid) at the school and the fire engines could not pull up.....
Thoughtless people.

I'm actually beginning to wonder if there is a pregnancy related condition which results in the use of your legs going into the incinerator with your placenta, because there seems to be so many parents who are unable to walk the length of themselves

YANBU - I was once going to my car (parked miles away from door with 2 DCs in tow where there plently of places) at B/W and was thorough amused to see a women and her 3, very made up/high-heeled/high maintenance DDs arrive pack to their parked on the double yellows clamped car .
Petty of me but I thought they probably wished they'd walked the extra 30 seconds.

I love it when inconsiderate drivers get a ticket for inconsiderate or just plain lazy parking! WOOOOPEEEE.

god I really want to go to bluewater now

compo - is that just to see them and laugh??

lol
no i haven't been for ages and have a hankering to go spend some serious cash (now where can I get my hands on some )

I gain pleasure form this kind of thing too. Not that I've been to Bluewater.

The 4WD thing though - to be fair not all people who drive Chelsea tractors are arses by any means. But I'd wager that arses are over-represented among the 4WD community. Plus when an eff-off great big Cayenne is parked badly it stands out like a whopping great, blinging sore thumb.

We regularly park in the parallel parking bay outside JL - at least, I think it's a parking bay, but given comments in this thread re getting pushchairs through between the cars, I am left wondering if others consider these not to be valid spaces. I hope those cars weren't included in the ticketing. However, those who park on the approach road are certainly causing a hazard, and I would be more than happy to see a few tickets on those windscreens.

lol i think thas funny it really winds me up when i see loads of cars parking there, just too lazy to walk from a proper space!!

pmsl BalloonSlayer

What's Bluewater?