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.

A shopping centre like the Trafford Centre down south.

YANBU.

Our road has a shop on the corner with a small carpark opposite, and people used to park all down the pavement rather than walk the 30ft from the carpark.

Then it was double yellow lined, and now they tend to use the carpark, with the noticeable exception of the BMW owner who parks on the pavement (as in all four wheels on the pavement) right outside the shop door several times a week. Lazy twat.

I want to go to Bluewater now. I want to spend a fortune on good idea kitchen crap from Lakeland and have a KFC/McD/pizza/pasta medley from the food court.

I sat in the car waiting for dh the other day at Sainsbo's (dd had fallen asleep). Big place, lots of carparking space. Watched a woman in a brand new bmw, pull up, park her car on the double yellow lines outside the supermarket and thereby blocking any access to the trollies, turn on her hazards, get out, go in. Reappeared ten minutes later with a pint of milk, a magazine and a bag of apples.

I assume now that it's a special carparking space that you can only see if you drive a bmw and wear jeggings and oversized sunglasses on a rainy day in January.

NO Rockbird, come with me and we'll have sushi from Yo Sushi after spending the debt of a small country in HoF on makeup.

I am quite looking forward to when DH starts his new job and trades his current repmobile (a Mondeo) for a BMW roller skate.

He'll be able to park whereever the fuck he likes, disabled spaces, yellow lines, P&T spaces when he hasn't got the kids with him, and even better no more buying indicator bulbs since he won't be using his indicators anymore!

maybe the people who do it are so rich that the penalty would not bother them and they dont realise how annoying and inconsiderate they are being.

or maybe they are so rich the penalty would not bother them and they dont care how annoying and inconsiderate they are being!

I think they are the sort of people who consider themselves so classy, that they shop in John Lewis all the time, ("I spend a lot of money here, you know, a lot.") and thus are entitled to park right outside as if they own the place.

A couple of weeks ago (it was crowded then so there may well have been a lack of parking spaces available) I saw a man yell to someone who had been parking on the approach road and with whom he had presumably had an altercation: "You're BONE IDLE!" The woman shouted back, genially enough: "If you'd found a space here mate, you'd have parked here too."

The man's wife was giving him the look and he said "Well there's no point in getting angry but not saying anything is there?"

I thought of him today

HA! I too very much appreciate this kind of thing!

and i also want to go to bluewater now and have sushi from yo sushi!

There are 10,000 parking spaces at Bluewater, however if it's busy you might have to park, oohhh, 100 metres from entrance...it's a terrible hardship.

And don't get me started on urban 4x4s.

I used to work in John Lewis (not at Bluewater though). There is a big NCP carpark right beside it, but still they used to come in demanding to be served quickly 'because I'm on a double yellow line outside'.

WTF is it with these folk that makes them think they are so bloody special??

YANBU. I would have laughed so hard I'd have been in danger of weeing myself. (Disclaimer - pregnant lady.)

People who are too lazy to find a space in a giant, free carpark deserve all they get. It's not like they can claim they were only there a minute and didn't want to cough up for prohibitive parking fares.

Hmmm sushi from Yo Sushi is the pinnacle on a Bluewater trip.

That and laughing at eejits getting ticketed for bad parking...

WhoIsAsking - I have a lovely image now of the HoF peddling cosmetics...

YANBU - hee hee hee!

I have been pissed off with the parking at Bluewater for years - people parking along the walkways when there are plenty of spaces free (but oh no, you have to walk for 30 meters) Thankfully they have put yellow bollards up in most car parks now.

YANBU. I love seeing lazy people ticketted.

YANBU - I love Bluewater but my pet hate is the number of cars parked in non-spaces.

Good on you BW security, please go to the undercover car park near mothercare tomorrow for more of the same!