17-01-2017, 05:45 PM
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Re: Whats wrong with taking up two spaces?
Originally Posted by Flowerpower
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A few years ago I parked in a pay and display car park. An old lady of about 90 drove in, crunching her gears and revving the engine, and proceeded to park diagonally across two spaces. I thought I'd better warn her that the previous week a woman had written to the local paper complaining that she had received a parking fine for parking over the lines and into a second space.
I said "I think you'll find you will get a fine parking there because you are taking up two spaces." She just smiled and very politely asked me if I would go and get her TWO tickets from the machine in that case. I did.
I used to have an elderly neighbour (now gone) who drove to the local newsagent every morning to get his newspaper.
He never parked but oblivious to everyone stopped his car outside the shop in the middle of the road
If you were in one of the other shops you would know he had arrived from the sound of people sounding their horns.
He did this for years, he was a well known local eccentric and feature
17-01-2017, 08:22 PM
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Re: Whats wrong with taking up two spaces?
Originally Posted by Meg
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I used to have an elderly neighbour (now gone) who drove to the local newsagent every morning to get his newspaper.
He never parked but oblivious to everyone stopped his car outside the shop in the middle of the road
If you were in one of the other shops you would know he had arrived from the sound of people sounding their horns.
He did this for years, he was a well known local eccentric and feature
I think I'll be an eccentric.
17-01-2017, 09:14 PM
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Re: Whats wrong with taking up two spaces?
Originally Posted by jbr
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no. You cannot practice football. You can, however, practise football or do some football practice.
You cannot practice parking either. You can, however, practise parking or do some parking practice.
You'll be pleased to hear that you can certainly practise colouring in!
18-01-2017, 12:21 PM
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Re: Whats wrong with taking up two spaces?
Originally Posted by ruthio
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Oh bloody hell can't anyone spell on here????Maybe if you practise!!!!
Practice is a noun: the doctor's practice, the dentist's practice.
When you do something over and over in order to get better it's a verb, a doing word, you practise.
Grrrrrrr
Originally Posted by ruthio
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See, just goes to show if you bang on long enough you can get things done!!
18-01-2017, 02:40 PM
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Re: Whats wrong with taking up two spaces?
Originally Posted by bruce
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yes, but you tread on very thin ice especially when 'banging on' you make such a fundamental error in your assertion. It was an error of grammar not spelling.
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