4 Thatcham car park related rants Options

[GrumblingAgain]

Four totally pointless rants arising from one visit to the Waitrose car park in Thatcham this lunch time. (Well this is the random rants section ) One about cars and 3 about trolleys! (or is it trollies?)

For those familiar with that car park, once you enter, there's a left turn which forms the first aisle and passes close to the front of the shop or, if you ignore it, you carry on slightly then the route bears to the left and becomes the second aisle.

On the corner of that latter turn, on the left, the first parking bay is rather short as a result of the layout. It will just take a mini sized car. Yet almost every time I use the car park there will be a huge 4x4 or large estate vehicle in that spot. The driver has usually gone in front first, and so must be completely unaware that a significant part of their vehicle is now sticking out of the bay causing quite an overhang into the main aisle. Estates aren't quite so bad, but 4x4s completely block the view so that when you swing out wide to avoid the back end of their car, you risk crunching someone coming the other way! Please use some common sense If the bay is smaller than your car (and the road isn't part of thr bay), go and find a more normal sized bay.

The trolley park areas - they are quite large, the size of a parking bay. When they happen to be empty, why do people returning their trolley leave them at the opening of the trolley bay? Surely all it needs is about 3 more steps to leave them at the back of the bay, thereby leaving ample space for others to subsequently leave theirs. I invariably see 3 trolleys "dumped" at the front of the bay and then other trolleys are then left in the roadway because no one wants to push them in a bit. Madness.

Outside the Waitrose building the pavement isn't completely flat - it slopes towards the road. The main trolley park areas have long stretches of poles to put the trolleys behind. Why then do people deliberately dump their trolley in the non-barrier bit of pavement?! Gravity and the wind soon sends a dumped trolley off into the road. Again, a few steps more is all it needs.

Lastly I am not convinced of the need for those extra wide parking areas right outside the shop, but apparently parents these days are incapable of getting their kids out of their cars without them (life must have been so horribly awful & difficult 20 years ago, how did we manage?) but now they've got them they are obviously popular with both parents and non-parent lazy gits.

If having all that extra space is important to them, why on earth do they, once they've loaded up their car, leave their trolley dumped in the hatched area The hatched area gives you that space, they are not your personal trolley park – lazy gits. Unless the next visitor parks exactly the same way, they won’t be able to get out without bashing their door on the trolley. Put the thing away properly - its about 5 steps behind you. Or even better, turn the spaces back into normal bays!

There - a good rant. I feel better now

[AmieB]

Lastly I am not convinced of the need for those extra wide parking areas right outside the shop, but apparently parents these days are incapable of getting their kids out of their cars without them (life must have been so horribly awful & difficult 20 years ago, how did we manage?) but now they've got them they are obviously popular with both parents and non-parent lazy gits.

Im sure we have been here before on the 'Your Views' page. Years ago we never had electricity, gas, telephones, computers etc but they managed. But now we manage better with new inventions and ideas. I do park in other areas of the supermarkets and i can tell you, inless your happy with me scratching your car door where im trying to get my son(17months) out then fine. Drivers do not know how to park in between 2 lines. I dont see why it angers you so much? You should be happy that there is somewhere for us to get out safely instead of scratching yor car. But with all your posts 'grumbling' i dont think your ever be happy!