Observing a couple in Morrison's car park today at Dumfries I came upon a brilliant idea!!!!

 

This couple late 50's parked in the parent and child bay closest to the front door.

No kids. Car park not busy.

She was fat he was thin. Old merc looked like they thought they were something.

 

Anyway I am not 100% in favour of parent/child bays as I think that is not an illness or handicap so there should not be preferential treatment. But that's another argument. Plus it will teach kids to be selfish and lazy.

 

But what I hate is non disabled in Blue Badge bays.

 

So my brilliant idea is and I know you cannot wait is:

 

why not have FAT PEOPLE PARKING BAYS!!

:think:

 

 

"Genius" I hear you all cry. Well thank you.

 

 

Wider bays so the fat folk can get in and out of the cars easier but (and here's the genius bit) at the furthest end of the store car park from the door so they get some well needed excercise there and back pushing that calorie laden trolley.

 

 

 

I am looking for £500000 for 100% equity in my business.

 

Any questions?

I like your thinkin

But the fat people may not, and the cookie sales may drop drastically in protest. Causing an overall loss in profits.

I think there may be a floor in your plan.

Im sorry Loskie, I'm out.

There are an awful lot of fatties who use their self inflicted 'disability' 

to rob the taxpayer of millions every year, why the hell should we help them get 

any worse.

 

BTW it's no less self inflicted than having children is.

(Which is a subject I'll leave alone for today but that boils my pi55

also)

 

That said, I agree with this in principle, we should give them their own bays.

If I was in charge of the way supermarkets are run I'd put the slob bays 

(They would be marked as such too, a bit of shame never hurt anyone...) 

at the farthest extent of the car park and only allow 6 inches either side to open the

door. So,  assuming they can get out of their car (if not they'll have to starve themselves

free.) They then have to walk to the store, which can't be bad for them after the couple of

hundred calories the hungry hippos have already  just burnt climbing over the back seat

and out of the hatchback of their car.

 

They should then pay a £20 surcharge for using a battery powered 'fat wagon' if they

decide to opt out of walking round the supermarket like normal people do as it doesn't

help them one bit cruising round Tescos like a walrus in a golf cart.

I wouldn't even allow them trollies, lets see how hungry they are when they have to carry it!

 

But to try and help them,  they should get free fruit and veg and anything bad for you should

cost double.  There you go, how to shop yourself thin. 

I think there may be a floor in your plan.

 

 

Not sure that there is. There might be a flaw though....

In defense of parents and child spaces I don't mind where they are in the car park but they are useful for getting the kids in and out as they are a bit wider and have a space between the spaces for manouvering the carrier etc. One of my local supermarkets has put theirs right up out of the way and I really don't mind. I do however get hacked off by disabled people parking in them. Especially the 2 spaces outside the anti natal department at my hospital.

I suggest rather than restricting to those with Terminal Subdermal Larditis you have "Ignorant ****** Bays". For everyone that doesn't give a **** about anyone elses car. these can then be used by the extra-wide, the old and ignorant or just plain old ******s.

 

These bays would be located between blue badge bays or in front of the store across the zebra crossing.

Edited 2 May, 201412 yr by Aspman

Not sure that there is. There might be a flaw though....

I think you're right, yes.

There was a 'floor' but the fatties went through it, so now its a 'flaw'

Cheers .

There might well be a flaw in the floor, I can see that being an issue.

 

If your not keen on parent and child bays because people are getting preferential treatment then why would you want overweight persons parking bays, is that not the same thing?

One point, parent/child bays are usually for parents with children under 5 so they can safely get in and out of the car.

Another point, this forum has lots of members and may very well have some what you call "fat" people. So i would be expecting a flaming.

 

why not have FAT PEOPLE PARKING BAYS!!

 

 

I think your idea is far to radical and extreme to ever be accepted by the general (non-fat) populous.

 

It would be far better to just turn at the fatty lard arses in to Bio Diesel.

 

On that basis, I'm out.

Fat people parking bays will serve a similar purpose to parent and child spaces. They stop people damaging other people's cars.

My kids have an over enthusiastic approach to door opening and so using parent and child spaces stops them bashing other peoples cars. Likewise fat people have to open car doors really wide to squeeze their tremendous girth inside their car.

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There could indeed be a "floor" to my plan. Why not get the supermarkets to install moving walkways like in airports but in the opposite direction they wish to travel in thereby increasing the excersise benefit.

 

Thanks for all your support.

IBTL folks.

If your not keen on parent and child bays because people are getting preferential treatment then why would you want overweight persons parking bays, is that not the same thing?

One point, parent/child bays are usually for parents with children under 5 so they can safely get in and out of the car.

Another point, this forum has lots of members and may very well have some what you call "fat" people. So i would be expecting a flaming.

What do you mean what I call fat people?

 

There's far too much American pc nonsense calling them big or large.It's not bigness or largeness attached to the skeleton it is plain and simple FAT, I am 16 stone and 6ft so I do know a bit about what I am talking about.

I like to park away from the door. Just for the record.

I park in parent and child and have no child

Nice ding free doors for me

Parent and child spaces are to allow you to get the door wide enough to get things like baby carriers in and out.

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What do you mean what I call fat people?

 

There's far too much American pc nonsense calling them big or large.It's not bigness or largeness attached to the skeleton it is plain and simple FAT, I am 16 stone and 6ft so I do know a bit about what I am talking about.

I like to park away from the door. Just for the record.

Yup, couldn't agree more. My parents are both very very fat.

It will kill them before their time. If I were to succumb to the same BS

I've heard them spouting for 30+ years then I would also be fat as apparently

if you come from a fat family then you will only ever be fat. What a crock!

 

I started to gain weight last year firstly as a symptom of packing in the fags

and secondly a symptom of being sat on my chuff for 6 months unable to

work while I waited for urgent surgery. By the end of January I had ballooned

(for me) to 14st 4lbs. So did I shrug my shoulders and say 'Oh well, I come from big

stock'  (like I've heard my folks say a million times..) and just accept that it was time for me 

to Jabba up like the rest of my lazy family? 

Of course not, I got to doing something to deal with it, and now am back in a size

32 trouser, back to 12 and a half stone and more muscular on my chest shoulders

and arms from the 200 press ups I'm now doing every day.  

 

I do love the way FATTIES say big BTW. That's denial in action right there.

You are 100% right in what you say Loskie. Perhaps if we were to start calling

a spade a spade (this also applies in other areas this thread isn't about)

then perhaps some good old fashioned shame and self loathing would kick in

and these heart attack time bombs would admit they have a problem

which is their own doing and try to fix it. Instead of blaming everybody 

and everything else. Because it can be done. It's not the shops fault, 

it's not the takeaways fault, it's not the manufacturers fault, it's yours for

stuffing your fat face with too much food. And here's a tip, bleating about 

it to anyone who will listen burns next to zero calories so stop wasting 

everybodies time and get off your lardy butt and deal with it!

The rules are the same for all, eat less, eat well and do more. That's it. 

 

Even someone who is stupid enough to overeat to the point where 

they are too fat to walk, or worse still wipe their own arse must be able 

to see that. (oh and start to charge them extra on planes too, nothing worse

than a long haul flight with a large fold of a stranger skin intruding in the meagre

space that I've spent thousands on, if they take up 10% of my space then they

should pay 10% of my fare and be overlooked when the food comes round.) 

I was walking back to my car at Tescos the other week and noticed a bloke parking in a bay diagonally between two other cars. I thought to myself 'eye eye, there's one for YPLAC.com'. All became apparent when the door opened and out slid ~22 stone of gelatinous chav who parked like that so he could open the door wider

I'm sure there's some merit to what I've read so far however there is one major flaw, not floor this time!

Who's going to enforce these parking regulations?

I see folk abandoning their **** boxes in the parent and child and disabled bays all the time and nobody takes action, I've often thought of playing the vigilante but it's not my place, I didn't mark the bays in the first place.

We all have a gripe about traffic wardens in general because we dislike the expense, especially when we can't park near our intended destination and there's no reasoning if you only want to stop for a minute without paying... but where are they when you want them.

Maybe if we all played by the rules we'd get on more amicably... but then that'd mean no speeding, double parking, undertaking etc.

What a world eh!

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People misusing parent bays and disabled bays are being targeted by the parking companies now that they can pursue you through the courts.  EDIT and those parking across 2 bays

 

Was a article locally either this week or last week that a number of people had been given parking charges in supermarkets.  Some of the parking companies are installing CCTV to monitor these bays, as well as already having ANPR

Obviously this will be enforced by staff in cherry pickers, who will be armed with bags of chips and fishing rods.

Anybody of above average tonnage failing to park correctly will be taunted with said bag of chips until they either fall over and are unable to right themselves or become too tired to waddle back to their car.

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I'm very glad that they're tackling folk who park in parent and child bays. £70 fine for anyone caught by the monitored car parks. I sincerely hope there's a ticket coming to anyone who thinks it's acceptable to watch a parent struggle.

It's hard work getting a baby in and out of a car and am very grateful for the extra room as you often have to open the doors wide and then manoeuvre a pram through the gap.

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Mind the language please folks

 

Cheers

Chuck the parent bays at the back of the store. Lazy people won't use them and it frees up space near the shop. Sorted.

Chuck the parent bays at the back of the store. Lazy people won't use them and it frees up space near the shop. Sorted.

Spaces near the shop for lazy people without kids?