The asda near Reading had some kind of mystical red barrier type thing, once the trolley moved past the red line, its wheels locked up!

Not sure how it worked but it was quite an impressive little system.

Probably costly though..

 

Our tesco has the same sort of thing but they just lift the back wheels up surely it is less effort to carry 12 bottles of stella home.

 

I was brought up believe that it is bad manners to be walking around in public eating your lunch etc. anyway!

Les

 

Leslie so was i but my old boss believed it was wrong to allow you to have a break so eat whilst working or go hungry, i believe they call it business.

 

After we first moved into our house about ten years ago I noticed we tended to get a number of chip wrappers dumped in our back garden (the house is on the corner of a junction) during the day, every day. I got so fed up with this that I decided to take a day off work to find out where they were coming from

Turned out that the kids from the local private school were skipping out at lunch time to the chippy at the top of our road, coming down our road, stopping on the first wall low enough to be used as a seat (ours) and chucking their rubbish over said wall when they were done

A stiff letter to the head of the school, with pictures, soon put an end to the problem, and for a time brought lunchtime patrols down our road by the teachers


We did though get visit from an orange 'lady' in a Range Rover demanding to know who we thought we were getting her son into trouble with his school

 

Very good, glad it worked.

I am mistified by the "orange" lady though!

Les

 

She had a liberal coating of fake tan, and a good 10mm of make-up on Les

Not unlike a lot of the wealthier women in these parts (Macclesfield), the large numbers of overpaid footballers,their other halves, and the assorted hangers-on provide daily proof of the old adage that 'you can't buy class'

 

I used to have a boss like that, the rule never seemed to apply to her though

 

Thanks CPD, now I understand and can imagine just what she was like too.

Sorry for your experience!

Les

 

I bet you're not as sorry as she was by the time I'd finished with her

 

Too true. But it's not just a matter of class (or percieved class) referring to your problem. (I know by class you are meaning on the whole, not just the rubbish incident)

I have lived on a council estate all my life (still do), and am working class, yet I have enough respect not to throw rubbish around and also to display what I would call decent manners. It's not that difficult to have a bit pride in your own behaviour. My parents brought me up well regardless of who we were/where we lived/what class we were.

Some people just don't have respect for their surroundings/other people. Again it's an example of how people are raised.

 

I'd have enjoyed watching!

Les