A line on parking

I was in the gym (ok, settle down at the back, it's not that funny) overlooking the car park in Mere Green this week when two women appeared with a supermarket trolley which they pushed between the last two cars in the corner at the very end of the car park.

I assumed that one of the cars was theirs but no, they emptied the trolley and walked off just leaving the trolley there. It meant that the driver or passenger of one of the cars - i.e. me - had to move the trolley before they could open their door.

Apart from being remarkably ill mannered it costs the rest of us in our food bills as staff have to be employed to round up trolleys.

It has not been a good week in car parks. I came back to my car yesterday to find some brain donor had managed to park over the white line to end up a couple of inches from my door which meant I had to clamber in from the passenger side - something I am not designed to do.

The driver of the offending vehicle of course had left himself, or herself, with enough room to not only climb in and out but knock up a patio and hold a barbeque if the mood took them. It would not have been so bad but it was only a Clio so did not exactly need a parking space the size of a tennis court.

Personally I think parking over white lines in a car park or, even worse, parking in a disabled space without a legitimate badge should carry some penalty even if it is just a sticker on the windscreen explaining the finer points of parking.