Monday, January 16, 2006
Car park at Didcot Sainsburys
Regular readers of my rants (or regular sufferers of the verbal variety) will remember that I was overjoyed with the arrival of a Sainsbury’s in Didcot, as it meant that I was no longer forced to endure the purgatory that is our local Tesco. I maintain that it is a much nicer place to shop. However, the car park for the store doubles as the car park for the town chopping centre, and as such is a pay and display. The first 2 hours are free, but you still need to get a ticket. This means that if you need to pop to the supermarket for a pint of milk and a loaf of bread, you have to
1) Negotiate weird one way entrance to car park
2) Negotiate huge bumps that threaten to remove your exhaust
3) Find space away from local youths on skateboards/chavs in Citroen Saxos playing “banging tunes”
4) Park in said space
5) Get out of car, lock car, locate nearest ticket machine
6) Curse as you realise nearest ticket machine is out of order. Locate another
7) Translate instructions from the Swahili and obtain ticket
8) Return to car, stick ticket in window, lock up
9) Buy milk and bread
All this takes approximately 3 times as long as it would have taken you to buy exactly the same stuff in Tesco.
1) Negotiate weird one way entrance to car park
2) Negotiate huge bumps that threaten to remove your exhaust
3) Find space away from local youths on skateboards/chavs in Citroen Saxos playing “banging tunes”
4) Park in said space
5) Get out of car, lock car, locate nearest ticket machine
6) Curse as you realise nearest ticket machine is out of order. Locate another
7) Translate instructions from the Swahili and obtain ticket
8) Return to car, stick ticket in window, lock up
9) Buy milk and bread
All this takes approximately 3 times as long as it would have taken you to buy exactly the same stuff in Tesco.
