Rant: Ingnorance, pure ignorance
We've had our first shopping trip out today with Junior, and it's amazing to see from the other side how ignorant some people really are.
I've always considered myself to at least try and be considerate towards others, and feel bad when I've made a bit of a faux par. But some others just seem to relish in their own indulgent egotistical sense of self importance.
Ikea, Costco and Sainsbury's. In all three we've had similar experiences. And those are:
- People trying to cut in fornt of you as if the pram doesn't exist
- People expecting you to move around them when they step in front of you, like the pram is so agile it can flex around human obstacles
- The old bloke parked in the parent and baby space, who laughed at me when I looked quizzically at his 60-odd year old passengers (three of them, no baby in sight)
- The bitch in a tank who pulled in the space the old bloke vacated, with nobody else in the 4x4
- The woman with two 8 / 9 year olds in the parent and baby spaces (like 8 & 9 year olds need a pushchair up the side of the car???)
Once upon a time I would have got annoyed, but I didn't. I suppose I have become accepting that in society now it's dog eat dog, and bugger anyone else. Disbaled spaces, parent and child spaces, they are there for a reason. Please respect them and don't abuse them. Learn to live together and play nice, eh?
Comments
Yip. I get really angry at folk using the p+c spaces if they do not have kids. The extra space is really useful - especially trying to haul 2 kids out of the back!
Posted by: Dave Morrow | September 3, 2006 4:43 PM
Proves what I've always thought. As age increases so does intolerance. Or is it that being the proud father tends to sharpen up the innate protective instincts?
Next thing we know you will be snarling and biting lumps out of pensioners. We will therefore be wary!
Posted by: Grandad | September 3, 2006 4:47 PM
That's exactly why they are there, Dave, to help stop the "door dings" and puschairs scraping down the sides of cars. Some folk just don't see that at all, they see them as "closer to the door so I'll not bother my lazy fat backside to use the legs I was blessed with" spaces. Now if they puit some P+c spaces at the far end of the car park then all would probably be well.
Oi, Grandad, you saying I'm old??? I only snarl at pensioners who clog up the aisles in Tesco on a Saturday morning when they've got all week to do their shopping while the rest of us are at work. Oh, and the pensioner who held up my new car handover on Friday because she hadn't paid 2 days in advance like she was told to do. Apart from that you're well safe!
Posted by: Lee ? | September 3, 2006 5:16 PM
Quite funny, today's Edinburgh Evening News has a few letters in response to a letter a few days ago along exactly the same topic - but path related. ie how the ignorant folk of Edinburgh (not all of them!) regard paths as theirs and make no consideration for others, be they dog walkers, people with kids, cyclists.
Is it an Edinburgh thing? Worse or better than London?
Posted by: Lee ? | September 4, 2006 6:20 PM