Teething Troubles

[poliphilo]

The big Sainsbury's in the town centre has a new scheme to control parking. There are barriers. You pick a card up at the barrier, do your shopping, get the card swiped at the check-out desk, then feed it back into the system on your way out.  £5 worth of shopping buys you 20 minutes parking;  £5+ buys you a couple of hours.  This is the first week of the scheme and all the barriers were manned- which suggests teething troubles. The man ahead of me in the checkout queue- who was buying nothing but alcohol- was being nasty with the check out girl over how much parking time he was allowed- and she had to call a colleague over to sort things out.  She told me there's been a lot of this.

Ailz has the flu- so Carl (who is doing work for us in and around the house) drove me into town. Thank you, Carl.

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[carl9whalley.livejournal.com]

Your welcome anytime you need me just phone.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Carl. :)

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

That is a very strange scheme. What if you go to buy something and what you want is not available. Do you then have to pay for parking because the store was out of stock?

Get well wishes for Ailz!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good question. I'd like to think that if you put your case to the staff they'd give you a free pass.

Ailz says, "thank you".

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Please wish Ailz a speedy recovery for me? Thanks. And as for you, stay well, please?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Too late, I'm afraid. I've already caught it.

Thank you for your kind wishes. The doctor says there's not much we can do except wait for it to go away. :)