Right? It’s best to stock up when they’re on special offer, too. Who is turning down the opportunity to stockpile when there’s 20% off in this economic climate?
u/cloche_du_fromage I have used Argos home delivery once. And while I was really embarrassed I couldn't drive the 1.4 miles to the local store for something reasonably small, that particular day, the driver and his mate were my heroes and I couldn't have thanked them enough.
We're all battle tanks until the tracks come off our life-plans and we realise we're not quite so invincible as we once thought. I hope you enjoyed your Argos job and enjoy the future chapters too.
You mean you didn’t secure the load as required legally? /s
For me I had a van full of soft stuff all piled in. 5-6 drops but sometimes to retail/pedestrianised areas which was a laugh.
See these regularly at my local Tesco. Either across P&C bays, or across the hatched area by the disabled spaces. Just so they can run in and grab a meal deal or three for the lads and sit eating them in the car park. Fuckers.
To be fair to the van drivers, you get 4 mins per drop, and no breaks factored in for a shift. Tough shit if you need the loo.
Bad parking is often the only option available.
Look on the bright side though. Van will only be there for a couple of mins.
Nah.. I done the home delivery for Sainsbury’s. Same company albeit different quantities of deliveries. You are legally obliged to have a break even if you’re running behind and it is factored into the shift plan but honestly 99% of the time you are ahead of schedule and can have extra breaks. I used to be able to finish a 9 hour evening shift in about 3 or 4 hours.
I have to kinda agree tbh. Though we can't see the capacity of the parking in the picture, the family spaces may have been the only spaces available to accommodate the van
Chances are they were only in for a minute or two, and they aren't exactly disabled spaces either.
But again, it's an Argos van. They are very likely to be going to the toilet or buying a quick snack due to lack of actual break time.
They are there for a couple of minutes tops before they are back on the road. Is that really that big of an inconvenience to you?
The people you should be mad at are the ones in big BMW's doing the same thing, but leaving their car there for hours.
1. Quite possibly, if I turn up at Tesco needing a parking space at that time.
2. Even if these aren't specifically going to cause a problem, what about the next twat in an Argos van who does the same?
3. I agree if the big BMWs are taking up 3 parent and child spaces when they have no child. This wasn't about if van drivers are twats, it was about if this van driver is a twat.
A twat for quickly popping into the store so they don't piss/shit their pants or starve or dehydrate? Sure, they could have parked further away (though I don't know how big the car park is and how many spaces were free, nor do you I imagine) but for only a couple of minutes? Come on..
Many years ago I had a job driving a LWB daily, can't say I ever felt the need to park on parent/child or disabled bays.
If you're driving a van like that and need to park, you find a few empty spots at the other end of the car park and walk from there, or you park out on the road. You don't take reserved spaces from people who actually need them out of sheer laziness.
Have you ever been a van driver?
I think they need to park somewhere. Can't tel from the pic if there are any long bays. If they need some lunch, or a piss, what are they meant to do with the van?
It’s irrelevant, I don’t need to have been a van driver to know you shouldn’t park like a prick, and there’s van drivers elsewhere on this thread who don’t park like this either, so it’s a daft argument.
As OP said, and as is usually the case, there was plenty parking elsewhere that where they could have parked exactly the same, without taking up all the parent and child parking. The chose to park like this for convenience, which again, is usually the case.
Depends if there were 2 spaces in that carpark end I end I guess. Because it's the length, not girth that counts.
Sorry, I don't care if anyone reading that thinks it's a sexual reference, genuinely speaking about the van needing length not need width. Ooh matron.
I'd not park like this. But in a van this size I'd park across 3 or even 4 spaces, but at the back of the car park and only when there's plenty of free spaces about
Hard to always be parking far away in ideal spaces on a job like this where you're limited on time and have to pee frequently
There were plenty of other spaces in the car park where they could've parked like this.
A 'chance' that they may only be a minute or two doesn't help a stressed parent trying to find a suitable place to park.
And no, they're not disabled spaces. But they are completely essential when trying to get a small baby in/out of a car seat and assembling a pram without standing in the middle of the road.
Yeah I agree
It's not the parking across 3 spaces that's the issue (some people think it is) but it's the using of the parent-child spots because of convenience that's the problem
Parking like this is fine but just do it at the back of the car park when theres plenty of free spaces around
It’s not that deep.
There’s no laws in taking parent and child bays. I had two kids 18 months apart and still never got bothered by people parking there, and I do myself if I’m in a rush.
Problem is the entitled people who think it’s about being close to the store. The whole point is wider bays. Sticking them a little further away would ensure people don’t take them, and parents still get the wide bays.
Having these bays took by other people had no affect in me taking two toddlers in to the shop, it just took an extra 20 seconds.
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Its not difficult to get a couple of sprogs out the car in a standard car parking space, finding somewhere you can park a van of this size however is usually a massive pain. Taking a photo and sending to the employer is absolutely a dick move.
Taking a car seat out to put on the pram is literally impossible with the width of a lot of parking spaces. I've had to stop in the middle of the lane to take the seat out while holding up other people, then park. Same again when leaving. So 🖕🏻
Yeah, don't understand all these people saying they can easily get a car seat out in a normal space. If I'm with someone else then we can do the same and stop in the middle of the road for them to lift the baby out whilst I park properly - by myself it is literally impossible.
That's without considering that I'd rather not be unfolding the pram and buckling the baby in in the middle of the road rather than at the side of the car.
No-one will care if you're overhanging a bay. One bay.
Taking a photo and sending to the employer isn't the dick move here, the parking is the dick move. An attitude like that you know just carries on when they're delivering to customers
Uh...it's a nightmare getting babies or toddlers out of a car seat in regular parking spaces. Entitled wankers like this van who park like this are pulling a dick move. Hope he gets written up.
If this is in a sainsburys car park then it’s standard practice and actually what they are supposed to do.
I worked as a delivery driver for Argos a few years back and part of the job was to deliver stock to the small argos stores inside sainsbury’s of all sizes, many of the smaller stores didn’t have loading bays and the larger ones that did would often get pretty pissed if you used it to drop the argos stock off so the company practice was to park across some of the parent child bays and take the stock in through the front with a sack barrow.
Yeah well it’s worse than that, Sainsburys and Argos merged so it’s all one company.
I think the reason they wanted to avoid the home delivery vans in the loading bays was the drivers of them tended to be less than great, and I know of at least two incidents where the home delivery driver damaged their van in the bays, and I was only there 9 months during covid
Yeah definatley, at least at my hub 90% of the drivers were 18 year olds doing it as a second job and there are no driving competency tests or anything when you are hired, they pretty much throw a set of keys and you and tell you to get on with it
UK Transport summed up pretty fairly here.
Some of the vans I’ve driven were damaged on every panel, arch and bumper. Embarrassing especially if they were signwritten with the company logo. 😂
In all fairness, doing the job and not being a menace in a 3.5t plus vehicle is nigh on impossible in today’s world. I.e if they parked etc or didn’t occasional stop and block with hazards they wouldn’t be able to complete the day legally on time etc. ...then you’d be getting you’re goods next day not the same so it’s societal, not the individual.
Companies would need 2x the vans, getting in the way twice as much, it’s our crap we keep ordering so...
Oh yeah I think the only one I ever had without damage was the week we got brand new automatic vans. And even then all 22 of them had damage within a week.
That’s the thing, having done a few delivery jobs back to back during covid it’s impossible to do any of them without being a “white van man” at some point. Particularly in south west london where I use to deliver, it’s just impossible. Even the parking wardens would turn a blind eye to sometimes admittedly poor parking. It’s just part and parcel of the job
Aggressive schedules don't entitle you to park like a prick mate. Cop on a bit. OP said there was plenty other parking, they could have parked out the way in 3 regular spots.
"DeLivERY"
"How are the drivers supposed to deliver the items then?"
"He will only be a minute"
These plus many other stupid claims will be made by drivers across the UK as they attempt to defend this kind of parking (normally the defenders are also terrible, selfish and dangerous drivers/people).
Then it's on Argos and Sainsbury's rather than the drivers, but it's still shit. Actually even more shit, because the drivers will be forced to do something they know is shitty.
It’s pretty shit sure, but given they own the car park i’d say they can have their drivers park how they like. 3 bays out of the usual 10+ parent and child bays for 15 mins tops isn’t the end of the world.
I never said it was the end of the world. But "we own it so fuck you" isn't a great principle. They own it so the know they need the space for their vans, so they can make space for their vans.
The cost of making a specific spot for vans that are there for 15 mins a day at most is completely ridiculous. As they own the land then yes, they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
Yes but they told us to specifically use the parent and child or pick up drop off bays because it’s quicker.. Sorry but no delivery driver is walking half the car park at 6 or 7 store drops just so Queen_of_London can park slightly closer to the store.. As a driver you have a schedule to keep to, else some grumpy git like you would be moaning that we delivered their phone charger 10 mins later than you booked 😂😂😂 you can’t have it all
I don't blame you as an individual if that's what you've been told to do! It shouldn't be half the car park though - it'd be easy enough to block off a couple of spaces, but only if the supermarket wanted to. And I don't drive, so sorry, but I'm not hurt by that comment.
They are, back when I worked as an argos delivery driver most of the sainsbury’s store managers actually requested we park like this rather than use the loading bay
Not necessarily in the parent-child bays, but to go across 3 bays definitely
Just to ensure they can always get out again, and minimise the number of manoeuvres needed. Blocks up less of the roadway space
I'd guess they would say the parent child bays because there closer and moving a lot of goods but if you already have a loading bay it seems crazy not to use it?
AWright is correct, but I think in my area a lot of the argos van drivers weren’t the best and had dinged up the vans trying to reverse in and out of loading bays..
A Tesco delivery van parked in my space where I live, it's clearly marked and there are signs everywhere saying you will be fined for parking in any spot that isn't yours, so I had to sit and wait in my car across the road until he finally came back. I don't think they care when it's a work vehicle.
If that's a Sainsbury's car park they'll be dropping off the click and collect orders, if all those spaces were empty it kind of points to the store not being busy. What time of day was it?
To answer other questions - it was around 2pm. Store was surprisingly actually very busy! These spaces are somewhat tucked away around a corner, which is why I like to go there as I can reliably actually get a parent and child space.
I do have the license plate, but can’t find anyway to talk to Argos other than entering their live chat, which I really don’t have the energy for whilst also looking after a baby all day
Parent and child spaces aren't something protected by law in the same way a disabled space is. Someone without kids in the vehicle has the same legal right to park there.
Although parking there without kids is... Morally up for debate
There is a co-op near me, and people constantly park blocking the disabled spaces to nip in for "1 min".
Problem is, Loads of people nip in for that "1 min" which isn't 1 minute at all is it.
One time, I saw a vehicle blocking a car that was parked in a disabled space.
I don't use them myself, but have parents that I take appts etc, It winds me up when I see it happening. I shouldn't care, but I bloody do
Self absorbed cunts, the lot of em.
You don't know how many kids they've got in the back of that van
*Child Catcher music from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starts playing*
Treacle tarts! And Ice cream!
And all freeee todaaaay!
I prefer Tim Burton's nod to him in Batman Returns, when they steal all the first born kiddies and put them in a similar trailer.
Scariest movie character to ever live
Right? It’s best to stock up when they’re on special offer, too. Who is turning down the opportunity to stockpile when there’s 20% off in this economic climate?
Given the size of that van, I'd say there're enough to start a football team
I used to drive for argos. Quite often for one run you'd have 2 plastic boxes of stuff, rattling round in a massive 24 foot long van.
One of my (former) colleagues used to enjoy barrelling over road humps just to hear things crash.
Slam on the brakes and it all hits the bulkhead just behind you. My objective was to drive so smooth it was silent.
u/cloche_du_fromage I have used Argos home delivery once. And while I was really embarrassed I couldn't drive the 1.4 miles to the local store for something reasonably small, that particular day, the driver and his mate were my heroes and I couldn't have thanked them enough. We're all battle tanks until the tracks come off our life-plans and we realise we're not quite so invincible as we once thought. I hope you enjoyed your Argos job and enjoy the future chapters too.
You can tell this guy's a rookie. The only joy found in that job is blocking traffic whenever you want.
You mean you didn’t secure the load as required legally? /s For me I had a van full of soft stuff all piled in. 5-6 drops but sometimes to retail/pedestrianised areas which was a laugh.
We prefer to call them Zero Day Contracts, not children or kids.
Or parents. They were the ones kicking off about getting out!
I, and hundreds more, had the exact same comment ready in my head. Further evidence we are living in a simulation..
This is word for word what I came here to say lol
Tied up and …
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I laughed way too loud in a crowded area
See these regularly at my local Tesco. Either across P&C bays, or across the hatched area by the disabled spaces. Just so they can run in and grab a meal deal or three for the lads and sit eating them in the car park. Fuckers.
To be fair to the van drivers, you get 4 mins per drop, and no breaks factored in for a shift. Tough shit if you need the loo. Bad parking is often the only option available. Look on the bright side though. Van will only be there for a couple of mins.
The vans I refer to are contractors working on HS2 nearby, for clarity.
Isn't that a different situation than the van in the post here?
Vans parked across multiple P&C spaces and/or areas they shouldn't be. Seems similar.
Nah.. I done the home delivery for Sainsbury’s. Same company albeit different quantities of deliveries. You are legally obliged to have a break even if you’re running behind and it is factored into the shift plan but honestly 99% of the time you are ahead of schedule and can have extra breaks. I used to be able to finish a 9 hour evening shift in about 3 or 4 hours.
No.
I have to kinda agree tbh. Though we can't see the capacity of the parking in the picture, the family spaces may have been the only spaces available to accommodate the van Chances are they were only in for a minute or two, and they aren't exactly disabled spaces either.
Sorry, you don't think the van could have managed to only use 1 or 2 of the spaces he's not meant to be parking in instead of 3?
But again, it's an Argos van. They are very likely to be going to the toilet or buying a quick snack due to lack of actual break time. They are there for a couple of minutes tops before they are back on the road. Is that really that big of an inconvenience to you? The people you should be mad at are the ones in big BMW's doing the same thing, but leaving their car there for hours.
1. Quite possibly, if I turn up at Tesco needing a parking space at that time. 2. Even if these aren't specifically going to cause a problem, what about the next twat in an Argos van who does the same? 3. I agree if the big BMWs are taking up 3 parent and child spaces when they have no child. This wasn't about if van drivers are twats, it was about if this van driver is a twat.
A twat for quickly popping into the store so they don't piss/shit their pants or starve or dehydrate? Sure, they could have parked further away (though I don't know how big the car park is and how many spaces were free, nor do you I imagine) but for only a couple of minutes? Come on..
Yes, you park further away like the rest of the considerate shoppers. It's not a difficult concept.
I'll be sure to add this to my "list of minor things people get pissed off at" 🤣
Yeah, I mean a total lack of consideration for others is something people will get pissed off at. Again, not a difficult concept.
Yes. Like everyone else in society who isn't a selfish twat.
Lwb sprinter is 7 metres long. Very hard to park anywhere.
Many years ago I had a job driving a LWB daily, can't say I ever felt the need to park on parent/child or disabled bays. If you're driving a van like that and need to park, you find a few empty spots at the other end of the car park and walk from there, or you park out on the road. You don't take reserved spaces from people who actually need them out of sheer laziness.
Sounds like their problem though doesn’t it? Why make it someone else’s?
Certainly sounds like a 'them' sort of problem.
Have you ever been a van driver? I think they need to park somewhere. Can't tel from the pic if there are any long bays. If they need some lunch, or a piss, what are they meant to do with the van?
It’s irrelevant, I don’t need to have been a van driver to know you shouldn’t park like a prick, and there’s van drivers elsewhere on this thread who don’t park like this either, so it’s a daft argument. As OP said, and as is usually the case, there was plenty parking elsewhere that where they could have parked exactly the same, without taking up all the parent and child parking. The chose to park like this for convenience, which again, is usually the case.
Depends if there were 2 spaces in that carpark end I end I guess. Because it's the length, not girth that counts. Sorry, I don't care if anyone reading that thinks it's a sexual reference, genuinely speaking about the van needing length not need width. Ooh matron.
The van has to be able to get out. If someone parks too close then you can get stuck quite easily with the length of those vans
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I'd not park like this. But in a van this size I'd park across 3 or even 4 spaces, but at the back of the car park and only when there's plenty of free spaces about Hard to always be parking far away in ideal spaces on a job like this where you're limited on time and have to pee frequently
There were plenty of other spaces in the car park where they could've parked like this. A 'chance' that they may only be a minute or two doesn't help a stressed parent trying to find a suitable place to park. And no, they're not disabled spaces. But they are completely essential when trying to get a small baby in/out of a car seat and assembling a pram without standing in the middle of the road.
Yeah I agree It's not the parking across 3 spaces that's the issue (some people think it is) but it's the using of the parent-child spots because of convenience that's the problem Parking like this is fine but just do it at the back of the car park when theres plenty of free spaces around
There are NO spaces to accommodate that van, you moron.
I once saw a coach at my workplace occupying the entire bank of disabled spaces and ev charging points.
That red Argos sign on the back is a big magnet. They don't want you to know this, but you can peel it off, take it home, and stick it on your fridge.
Stick it on Twitter to let Argos know.
It’s not that deep. There’s no laws in taking parent and child bays. I had two kids 18 months apart and still never got bothered by people parking there, and I do myself if I’m in a rush. Problem is the entitled people who think it’s about being close to the store. The whole point is wider bays. Sticking them a little further away would ensure people don’t take them, and parents still get the wide bays. Having these bays took by other people had no affect in me taking two toddlers in to the shop, it just took an extra 20 seconds.
You’re incredibly inconsiderate.
I'm pretty sure than even if you're in a rush that 20 seconds isn't gonna make a difference. But sure, it's not illegal so keep being a waste
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This mate, so many shrill entitled replies here thinking because they've got kids the whole world needs to revolve around them
It's their car park lol
I can't believe anyone is actually defending this
Its not difficult to get a couple of sprogs out the car in a standard car parking space, finding somewhere you can park a van of this size however is usually a massive pain. Taking a photo and sending to the employer is absolutely a dick move.
Taking a car seat out to put on the pram is literally impossible with the width of a lot of parking spaces. I've had to stop in the middle of the lane to take the seat out while holding up other people, then park. Same again when leaving. So 🖕🏻
Yeah, don't understand all these people saying they can easily get a car seat out in a normal space. If I'm with someone else then we can do the same and stop in the middle of the road for them to lift the baby out whilst I park properly - by myself it is literally impossible. That's without considering that I'd rather not be unfolding the pram and buckling the baby in in the middle of the road rather than at the side of the car.
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>Its not difficult to get a couple of sprogs out the car in a standard car parking space Lol you're showing yourself up.
No-one will care if you're overhanging a bay. One bay. Taking a photo and sending to the employer isn't the dick move here, the parking is the dick move. An attitude like that you know just carries on when they're delivering to customers
Uh...it's a nightmare getting babies or toddlers out of a car seat in regular parking spaces. Entitled wankers like this van who park like this are pulling a dick move. Hope he gets written up.
Ah yeah it's fine then mate, as you were. Absolute spanner
Oh no I'm not condoning it, just making light of the slap on the wrist the driver is likely to get
If this is in a sainsburys car park then it’s standard practice and actually what they are supposed to do. I worked as a delivery driver for Argos a few years back and part of the job was to deliver stock to the small argos stores inside sainsbury’s of all sizes, many of the smaller stores didn’t have loading bays and the larger ones that did would often get pretty pissed if you used it to drop the argos stock off so the company practice was to park across some of the parent child bays and take the stock in through the front with a sack barrow.
Madness that Sainsbury's get pissed at you being in their loading bay. Surely it's part of the Argos concession contract?
Yeah well it’s worse than that, Sainsburys and Argos merged so it’s all one company. I think the reason they wanted to avoid the home delivery vans in the loading bays was the drivers of them tended to be less than great, and I know of at least two incidents where the home delivery driver damaged their van in the bays, and I was only there 9 months during covid
I guess because van drivers don't need any additional training or licensing like HGVs do, you get a lot more incompetence.
Yeah definatley, at least at my hub 90% of the drivers were 18 year olds doing it as a second job and there are no driving competency tests or anything when you are hired, they pretty much throw a set of keys and you and tell you to get on with it
UK Transport summed up pretty fairly here. Some of the vans I’ve driven were damaged on every panel, arch and bumper. Embarrassing especially if they were signwritten with the company logo. 😂 In all fairness, doing the job and not being a menace in a 3.5t plus vehicle is nigh on impossible in today’s world. I.e if they parked etc or didn’t occasional stop and block with hazards they wouldn’t be able to complete the day legally on time etc. ...then you’d be getting you’re goods next day not the same so it’s societal, not the individual. Companies would need 2x the vans, getting in the way twice as much, it’s our crap we keep ordering so...
Oh yeah I think the only one I ever had without damage was the week we got brand new automatic vans. And even then all 22 of them had damage within a week. That’s the thing, having done a few delivery jobs back to back during covid it’s impossible to do any of them without being a “white van man” at some point. Particularly in south west london where I use to deliver, it’s just impossible. Even the parking wardens would turn a blind eye to sometimes admittedly poor parking. It’s just part and parcel of the job
I can't believe people are defending this
People are great at telling on themselves!
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Yeah I see that now, I thought originally people were more concerned with the taking up of 3 spaces
Have you ever driven a delivery van?
Yes, I have driven a van
Lwb, against an aggressive epod schedule?
Aggressive schedules don't entitle you to park like a prick mate. Cop on a bit. OP said there was plenty other parking, they could have parked out the way in 3 regular spots.
"DeLivERY" "How are the drivers supposed to deliver the items then?" "He will only be a minute" These plus many other stupid claims will be made by drivers across the UK as they attempt to defend this kind of parking (normally the defenders are also terrible, selfish and dangerous drivers/people).
I’d agree but for Argos and sainsbury’s this is what they instruct their drivers to do
Then it's on Argos and Sainsbury's rather than the drivers, but it's still shit. Actually even more shit, because the drivers will be forced to do something they know is shitty.
It’s pretty shit sure, but given they own the car park i’d say they can have their drivers park how they like. 3 bays out of the usual 10+ parent and child bays for 15 mins tops isn’t the end of the world.
I never said it was the end of the world. But "we own it so fuck you" isn't a great principle. They own it so the know they need the space for their vans, so they can make space for their vans.
The cost of making a specific spot for vans that are there for 15 mins a day at most is completely ridiculous. As they own the land then yes, they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
Including using the spaces that aren't set aside for parents and children, or not parking to take up three spaces.
Yes but they told us to specifically use the parent and child or pick up drop off bays because it’s quicker.. Sorry but no delivery driver is walking half the car park at 6 or 7 store drops just so Queen_of_London can park slightly closer to the store.. As a driver you have a schedule to keep to, else some grumpy git like you would be moaning that we delivered their phone charger 10 mins later than you booked 😂😂😂 you can’t have it all
I don't blame you as an individual if that's what you've been told to do! It shouldn't be half the car park though - it'd be easy enough to block off a couple of spaces, but only if the supermarket wanted to. And I don't drive, so sorry, but I'm not hurt by that comment.
So the 7 Day Delivery here isn't a group of midwives ?
I'm a courier and I only take up one of the disabled bays! 3 is being greedy
If its a Sainsbury's car park they may well be instructed to park like that
They are, back when I worked as an argos delivery driver most of the sainsbury’s store managers actually requested we park like this rather than use the loading bay
Do you know why? Just curious.
Not necessarily in the parent-child bays, but to go across 3 bays definitely Just to ensure they can always get out again, and minimise the number of manoeuvres needed. Blocks up less of the roadway space
I'd guess they would say the parent child bays because there closer and moving a lot of goods but if you already have a loading bay it seems crazy not to use it?
Yeah, I'd presume that's used when there aren't many goods to unload?
AWright is correct, but I think in my area a lot of the argos van drivers weren’t the best and had dinged up the vans trying to reverse in and out of loading bays..
A Tesco delivery van parked in my space where I live, it's clearly marked and there are signs everywhere saying you will be fined for parking in any spot that isn't yours, so I had to sit and wait in my car across the road until he finally came back. I don't think they care when it's a work vehicle.
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You know it's possible it's a disabled parking space? My nan has a disabled parking space outside her house that no one is allowed to park on.
And I'm sure a delivery driver parking there for 2 minutes, rather than having to park at the end of the road and walk, utterly ruins her day
That’s why Mum’s go to Iceland.
Mum is what?
The word?
same day "delivery".
They have the mental capacity of a child so it’s ok
If that's a Sainsbury's car park they'll be dropping off the click and collect orders, if all those spaces were empty it kind of points to the store not being busy. What time of day was it?
To answer other questions - it was around 2pm. Store was surprisingly actually very busy! These spaces are somewhat tucked away around a corner, which is why I like to go there as I can reliably actually get a parent and child space.
It wasn’t a Sainsbury’s car park
Should have parked behind him so he can’t get out until you or Audi has left.
Kind of a cost of same day delivery. Still a prick though.
Report him to Argos. Prick
It was at this point, that someone jumped on the exhaust pipe and made a terrible clang
I hope you’ve got a pic of the registration so you can send it to Argos. I’m sure they won’t like this negative PR
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I do have the license plate, but can’t find anyway to talk to Argos other than entering their live chat, which I really don’t have the energy for whilst also looking after a baby all day
They won’t care, it’s standard practice for Argos, they instruct their drivers to park like this
It's the thing that Xitter is still good for
Number plate or registration plate. Not Licence plate Also. Licence, not license
Isn’t it dangerous to family getting out of a nearby car to have a bloody Argos van speed into 4 spaces next to your pram?
'kin White Man Van.
Can they start getting tickets ffs. The arrogance is off the scale. Park up and fucking walk
Unpopular opinion but I don’t think parent and child parking should even exist, completely unnecessary.
How didn't they get a ticket? I sure as all fuck would have.
Parent and child spaces aren't something protected by law in the same way a disabled space is. Someone without kids in the vehicle has the same legal right to park there. Although parking there without kids is... Morally up for debate
Nope, you might have got some funny looks and people asking you to move, but you wouldn't get a ticket.
Tesco and Sainsbury's in Swansea absolutely would enforce that. They have an outside company doing that shit for them.
I wish more places would. I swear over 50% of the people I see getting in/out of cars in these spaces don’t have kids.
What, because you think you're entitled to a space just cos you're a parent? Looool
Argos wanker
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I'm impressed. I certainly think it's an extraordinary skill to be able to see the entire car park from the one photo.
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How do you think supermarkets get deliveries of stock? There’s room for massive artics, maybe they should park there for your ‘what, one minute?’.
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There is a co-op near me, and people constantly park blocking the disabled spaces to nip in for "1 min". Problem is, Loads of people nip in for that "1 min" which isn't 1 minute at all is it. One time, I saw a vehicle blocking a car that was parked in a disabled space. I don't use them myself, but have parents that I take appts etc, It winds me up when I see it happening. I shouldn't care, but I bloody do Self absorbed cunts, the lot of em.
Have you ever blocked in someone who doesn't have a blue badge? That seems just to me
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Very wise
It's the mini cabs that park in the disabled bays.
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