For once
I have actually almost finished my xmas shopping, probably due in small part to the fact I cant be arsed to go shopping with the baby in tow as people are SO DAMN RUDE!! I hate going into town only to have people push you out of the way or lean over the pram to get something without either (a) acknowledging that you exist (b) saying excuse me or my fav (c) dropping a heavy glass door onto you and your child.
Now I know having a child was my decision and I dont expect everyone to jump up and down about it, but I think what I am getting at is a complete basic lack of manners. Its takes 2 seconds to hold a door so that my son and I dont get injured and can get out of the way - would they do it if I was in a wheelchair or infirm? I, like most people with a pram, am not invisible nor foreign and so a polite excuse me will encourage me to shift out of the way. My god its not like the local tesco is running out of tinned beans now is it!!! Grrrrrrr!!!
I have been reading in the Manchester Evening News about people getting irate about perents iwht young children getting larger parking spaces to that they can remove their prans without damage to amy surrounding cars. Let me assure you that if a parent with a young child had damaged a car belonging to one of those letter writers, then the MEN would have got a letter about that too. I understand that having a larger parking space is a priviledge not a right liek those people who required disabled spaces, but people really do take the piss.
For example. We went to ikea, the hubby, little man and I, and we were cruising past the parent and baby spaces without thinking we might ever get one. Anyway, we see a space make a way towards it, only to have some mondeo driver drive into it like nigel bloody mansell. This driver gets out, so hubby goes, excuse me but thats parent and child parking. Driver goes, well we have a disabled badge. The exchange wasnt heated in any way, but what was frustrating is that there were plenty of disabled parking spaces around the other side. When hubby pointed this out, driver states he cant be bothered to walk. Now I should point out it wasnt the driver that was obviously disabled, it was his passenger and I know that he also may have had a diasbility, but for gods sake there were spaces available to him. I cannot park in a disabled space and I lothe drivers who do without good cause.
Anyway, to sum up the newspaper, apparently I should be bloody grateful (i am) and should not go shopping too often (i dont) and be gracious to others in the car park (only if you are nice to me in the shop mate!) because (and this I am well aware of) they didnt have it in 'my'day!!
Now I know having a child was my decision and I dont expect everyone to jump up and down about it, but I think what I am getting at is a complete basic lack of manners. Its takes 2 seconds to hold a door so that my son and I dont get injured and can get out of the way - would they do it if I was in a wheelchair or infirm? I, like most people with a pram, am not invisible nor foreign and so a polite excuse me will encourage me to shift out of the way. My god its not like the local tesco is running out of tinned beans now is it!!! Grrrrrrr!!!
I have been reading in the Manchester Evening News about people getting irate about perents iwht young children getting larger parking spaces to that they can remove their prans without damage to amy surrounding cars. Let me assure you that if a parent with a young child had damaged a car belonging to one of those letter writers, then the MEN would have got a letter about that too. I understand that having a larger parking space is a priviledge not a right liek those people who required disabled spaces, but people really do take the piss.
For example. We went to ikea, the hubby, little man and I, and we were cruising past the parent and baby spaces without thinking we might ever get one. Anyway, we see a space make a way towards it, only to have some mondeo driver drive into it like nigel bloody mansell. This driver gets out, so hubby goes, excuse me but thats parent and child parking. Driver goes, well we have a disabled badge. The exchange wasnt heated in any way, but what was frustrating is that there were plenty of disabled parking spaces around the other side. When hubby pointed this out, driver states he cant be bothered to walk. Now I should point out it wasnt the driver that was obviously disabled, it was his passenger and I know that he also may have had a diasbility, but for gods sake there were spaces available to him. I cannot park in a disabled space and I lothe drivers who do without good cause.
Anyway, to sum up the newspaper, apparently I should be bloody grateful (i am) and should not go shopping too often (i dont) and be gracious to others in the car park (only if you are nice to me in the shop mate!) because (and this I am well aware of) they didnt have it in 'my'day!!