This afternoon.
Annie West writes:
Sligo Dunnes car park. Doesn’t say what age your child needs to be so I’m rather looking forward to parking in there and when challenged, will point to the sign, point to my massively-taller–than-me kids and go ‘That’s me in the middle’. Also likely to cause untold argument and consternation about the erm ‘gender specific‘ parents…
Fight!
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God loves a trier.
Sad thing is, Custo, there actually are people…
…who get asked to try things on in Dunnes Stores… even when taller than their Mammy.
“Sure who’s gonna be lookin’ at ya?”
“You’ll grow into it”
“I can take that up.”
Trying it on in the clothes rail surrounded by dangling clothes…did Dunnes have changing rooms or did my mum just not use them?!
with the hanger stuck up your jaw “stand up straight will ya “
I park in them all the time and if challenged tell them i didn’t realise that you had to have your child with you.
You’re hilarious Tony. I’m sure your quick wit evaporates the irritation of parents struggling with car seats in the narrower parking spaces.
I have a picture of a car seat, upturned and tattered in an otherwise empty parking space….
Just tell them you have the child in the boot.
I always tell them the kid’s in the boot and keep walking.
sh1t, just saw Mani’s post now… I feel stupid and unfunny.
Mani’s was delivered as a gag, yours was delivered as an ignoramus. So don’t fret, the distinction’s still there.
I can deliver a gag. Gimmie your address.
Business as usual then.
Shopping in Dunnes?
Tut tut.
No I was walking past actually
Just wanted to make sure you’d covered all the outrage angles…
Ah please, other retailers give crap contracts to their staff too- M&S as an example, give week- to-week contracts to many of its staff- they’re in same position as Dunnes workers
Ah sure if they’re all at it I won’t bother me head so.
lol.
Jesus. Give it a rest.
It’s just a feckin sign.
People just looking for anything to complain about these days.
and worse still Broadsheet posted it!
I don’t see a complaint. I see someone posting the fact they look forward to having a go at the rules when chancing their arm…. I think the complaint comes later…. if at all
+1 Annie’s having a laugh
no laughing aloud , outrage only parent zone
Who says those signs are gender specific?
#clothesarenotdestiny
#maybeijustlikethebreeze
No reason to believe that’s it’s not a woman/tiny man couple with a young child with giantism. Just apologise for not having your tiny husband with you and I’m sure all will be forgiven.
Just do you shopping and go home Annie
who would even challenge you if you had no kid with you? I’d be shocked if it happened – not too shocked to tell the person to f**k off however —
You seem like a nice person – would you not just try and find another spot instead of taking one that’s supposed to help out people who may need a bit of extra room to get kids in and out of a car?
You mean as if it wasn’t foreseeable for some things to be more of a challenge after having kids?
So attempts to make some things a little easier are to be ignored?
This. People who’d have a go at any little attempt to make things easier for grown ups with small children…I just can’t. It’s so unnecessarily petty and hateful. It’s like sitting in the bus/Luas section for elderly/pregnant/differently-abled and refusing to get up.
Now if they could just put up a sign to tell people not to stop outside the front door to load bags into their car and don’t give two hoots about backing up the traffic trying to get into the carpark from the road because the other cars can’t get by them.
Posts like this are why we can’t have nice things. It’s a space designed to give parents with young kids a bit of extra room to get them in and out of cars.
It’s nice to see a male figure on it, rather than just a female. Do you think a single parent gets riled up about 2 parents being depicted just because that’s not their family structure? If you’re bothered by these spaces, you need to get a grip
I have no problem with male and female silhouettes so long as they’re only referred to as Parent A and Parent B so we can all be free of the tyranny of gender.
How do you know it’s not a fella in drag?
Bullsh*t!
Everyone knows an A-line skirt is notoriously unforgiving on the male form without an impractical amount of padding.
they could be doing a….. actually I don’t know the name of it, but like yer man in the Silence of the Lambs when he stands back from the camera and his todger has disappeared!
I’m talking hip and bum padding and corsetry, not tucking, tucking’s fundamental. Yeesh, someone failed Drag Studies.
Sounds like your college was a real winner.
Perfect for parking the 991 Turbo S, or … shudder… the Vogue if the wife is driving. Can’t bear to have my car dinged by ignorant breeders.
Troll grade: C –
Points for effort, but lacking in originality or spark.
The “mother and child” parking spaces were quite irritating. Dads can’t take their kids shopping?
Dads can park
*legs it*
yeah their butt’s on the couch yo! legs it after you with the wooden spoon