Defensive Parking

Dino D

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The trouble with those car ports is some shoppers use them for thoughtlessly dumping their trolleys. So I cut my losses and avoid parking anywhere near car ports incase a trolley rolls off in the wind, gets knocked etc and bumps the car.

I do often take up 2 spaces if the car park is free enough. But I check the sign. If it says park only in marked bays then as it's plural it must be okay. If it says park only in a single marked bay I'll just park in the empty part further away :)

I was minding my own business working on the Zeds the other day when someone ran up the culdesac in a panic. His car had broken down and he was asking for a lift a mile away to pick his young daughter up by a deadline. Not really my sort of thing risking giving a complete stranger a lift but it was awkward to say no especially as it crosses my mind it could be an access to his kids issue if he got there late.

The nearest car to hand was my brother's Z3. So I told him to hop in. Stupid sh*t smashed the door straight into the breaker (which itself has decent doors)...

So you can't even risk parking too close on your own drive way!

Then he made things worse by promising me he wasn't casing the joint. I just took my chances and said that's just as well as I'll break any **ckers legs who turns me or my family over.

Anyway, all ended okay although bizarrely he left a half eaten pack of Hovis biscuits behind. Weirder and weirder.
What weird out of that whole story is the Hovis biscuits. I thought they just did bread?
Did they taste good
 

t-tony

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Hovis biscuits and Cathedral City Cheddar is really nice, if you add some Branston small chunk pickle, well now you're really talking sausages.;)

Tony.
 

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Hovis biscuits and Cathedral City Cheddar is really nice, if you add some Branston small chunk pickle, well now you're really talking sausages.;)

Tony.
I do like a dollop of chutney. However I can only eat the small chunk stuff. Someone told me a story once about a prank involving the large chunk stuff in a sandwhich and, well you just don't want to know...
 

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Looks completely unmolested. Nice to see sometimes.
 

Toby

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Hovis biscuits and Cathedral City Cheddar is really nice, if you add some Branston small chunk pickle, well now you're really talking sausages.;)

Tony.
TBh Tony thought you would prefer Lincolnshire sausages, not some mash of biscuit, cheese n pickle but each to their own I suppose :whistle:
 

t-tony

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TBh Tony thought you would prefer Lincolnshire sausages, not some mash of biscuit, cheese n pickle but each to their own I suppose :whistle:
The ones from Mick's A57 Cafe were really nice!!

Tony.

ps. Also when my parents had a static caravan on Nettleton Park years ago there was a shop on site which sold proper Lincolnshire sausage and we always brought some home with us. I think they were from a local butcher in Caistor maybe.
 
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Toby

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Yeah probably was a local butcher in Caistor - but gone by now I would think, as with most things.
 

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Got to be done. No herbert's bashing my doors.

Would rather have a row with someone than see one of my motors marked :)

Mind you I'm allergic to going anywhere busy so the reality is I'm always in a semi-deserted car park.
 

Cooper

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This just happened at work, but always seems to be the case. I park my car about 1 inch from the company car which is never used at night. Then idiots drive in to pick up their friends and look where they park, putting my poor Zed at risk. I have put an arrow on the roof so you can see it.
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