What to stick on his windscreen which wont come off easily? [OT]

[Mary Fisher]

That's another reaon we don't go to supermarkets - they don't understand that you can't have LESS than ten items, only FEWER.

Mind you, nor can the customers ...

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

No, you didn't understand the question. Why am I not surprised?

And the time before?

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Oh dear, has that happened to you? I hope you picked it up so that it wasn't in the way ...

Huh?

Mary

[Dave Liquorice]

Aye, when I go shopping with the kids it is rather annoying to have thoise spaces taken by people without kids. There is a safety thing here not just the shorter walk. Kids and car parks are a dangerous mix, kids are so easyly hidden by the parked cars and the restricted view, especialy to the rear of most modern cars, doesn't help.

My father has a Blue Badge, we use it when I take him shopping but I'm

*really* looking forward to finding all the Blue Badge spots taken so I can use one of the Parent & Child ones. After all we are father and son, just happens that father is 91 and son 45...

[Mary Fisher]

I couldn't. My problem is that I need to sleep, probably the payback for all those years of staying up all night or clubbing until three or four in the morning, or playing cards and drinking and smoking through the night ...

Well, it was worth it:-)

Yes it is. Not having legs or neck or whatever doesn't stop you applying for a blue card like all the others. If they can do it so can you.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Several people had warned him, Howard, but there's none so blind ...

and a lot of the unseeing have given advice ...

Nearer and nearer drawsthe time.

Mary

[Guy King]

The message from Steve Walker contains these words:

We had a house where the former owners had added a socket (in the lighting circuit) by chasing down the wall from the ceiling. They hadn't removed the wallpaper first, but they filled flush with the remaining paper and then papered over the top. So, of course, when we did the job properly there was a ridge all down the wall.

[Depresion]

Stuffed sounds like single syllable words are in order. ;)

[Taz]

Well I live in my own house, and the only place I can prevent parking is on my driveway and the access to my driveway. In Scotland if someone parks across your driveway, you can't do them for illegal parking, but you can do them for theft. ie. stealing your right of access.So you call out the police for theft, which usually has a faster response than calling them out for a parking misdemeanour. Most of the police aren't even aware of this law in Scotland though, so you have quite a conversation if you do invoke it.

[Depresion]

Well you are all barmy north of the border.

[Depresion]

Did they get it on the right trip switch? My decorator blew himself clean across the room because a set of wall lights were wired direct to the mains by the previous owner.

[Taz]

You can delete the addresses you are sending to if you wish, you know.

[SL]

The housing association I lived at provided me with 3 laminated A5 signs, with my flat no. details for when I had visitors and my own motor. The parking was policed, even got a ticket while moving in, which was resolved quickly with no hassle.

Should be easy enough for the OP to design own version for residents.

Also, as to poster stating children do not make a big difference on shopping, I'd have to say they do. Next time you are shopping check how many items are themed for kids and all the latest promotions, Star Wars being the current one. It ranges from sweets, biscuits, cereal, crisps, ice-cream, juice, yogurt, cheese (that stringy stuff), ketchup, beans, in fact anything you can stick a label on.

Kids are very good at pestering parents till they get something and at lifting some promotion from a shelf only to be discovered at the till after its been scanned and too much bother and hassle to return.

Cheers, Stephen

[Steve Walker]

In message , Mary Fisher writes

Evidently.

You knew when you typed it that you could have phrased it better?

Well, let me see. That's the only time I can remember when I've been sat in the car when it has happened. Seeing kids dent someone else's car next door without being told off? Well, that would be every time I've seen it happen.

Anyway, I have a simple workaround. I buy meat at the local butchers (which I walk to). I buy vegetables at the local farm shop (where I have seen very few children, and the ones I've seen have been perfectly well behaved). Perhaps there's a correlation between the parents who care enough to buy their family decent food, and the parents who raise well behaved kids?

[Taz]

Thats the best one I've heard yet !!!! A cracker !!

[Taz]

So, Johannes - stop cross posting. whiney gimp.

[Mary Fisher]

Shock horror - the police/parking attendants being understanding? You're not allowed to say that round here!

It's the parent's faults for giving in. I feel very strongly about that. No must mean no then there's no argument.

Mary

[Derek *]

Sadly no. Firstly:

The mail arrives at your computer because either:

a) You collected it yourself (or your computer did using your password/id.) via POP3.

or

b) You have configured your system to have it respond to SMTP requests to deliver.

In both cases the possibility exists to decline unwanted mail.

Very powerfully in the case of SMTP, where mail can be rejected on the "envelope" without even receiving it.

Whatever, the email you receive has arrived with your consent and does not hinder the further operation of your computer, other than it's presence as an unwanted mail item, (Just like an unwanted mail item at home).

Receiving mail, in any event, is not the same as having an A4 sheet glued over your car windscreen in front of the drivers position. Criminal damage has in the past been taken to include as little as the creasing of strands of grass as someone walks across a lawn.

Secondly, IANAL, although the damage has to be tangible, it has been held an inflated tyre is damaged by as little as letting the air out. You can't use it in that condition, and a garage would charge for re-inflating it, especially out on the road, So QED.

Obscuring a car windscreen such that it cannot be safely driven without some physical remedial action looks like criminal damage to me. With the additional risk of being involved in a claim (from the civil liability POV), if that car subsequently gets involved in an accident.

AFAICS you don't gain much from taking on such a liabilty.

HTH

DG

[Depresion]

Star Wars stuff is aimed at the 30 something's in the main. I was talking last night to a woman on the checkouts at a local supermarket who was complaining about her husband missing work to go to the local premier of the new film (where Darth cross code man was apparently in attendance asking £20 a signature).

[Mary Fisher]

I apologise, I've confused you with someone who's been complaining about children's behaviour in supermarkets.

I should think there's a lot in that. Also the fairly often reported correlation between processed food and hyper-activity in children.

No, I don't have television and don't buy newspapers or general interest magazines but I do read specialist magazines, one being published by The Food Commission - I'm passionate about well produced good food. We buy our meat from a daughter who has an organic farm with rare breed animals and poultry, our game from the local licensed supplier, our vegetables and flour from local organic producers (and grow quite a lot of veg ourselves and eat unusual veg which you can't buy); things we can't buy from local producers we buy fromWaitrose or Booths, about once every six weeks.

Mary