I'm agreeing with that statement but wether I'm referring to my belly or yours I'll leave up to you to decide.
I had to laugh at Pete’s comment re parking. Watched a very large man try and climb out of his very large SUV which he parked very close to my mini. The car park was nearly empty at the time. Fortunately it was on the passenger side so no problem driving away and no scratches.
I was in a car park recently, sitting in the driver’s seat, minding my own business. There were dozens of spaces. A driver came along in a giant machine and chose to park right beside me, his passenger door so close I had about 3” of wiggle room. Honestly, why? I had to move to another space to exit my vehicle.
We have a double storey car park in our little town ( which is due for demolition….when?,,,,who knows!) where the upstairs car spaces are much wider than the lower deck. If we park on the lower deck we always look for what we call a “ double” now. the layout downstairs is such that there are two car spaces next to each other and then there is a supporting column of concrete in place. However, if one of these spaces are taken up we have difficulty getting in and out of the car doors due to lack of space. So, we wait for a double and then tend to park right near the inner line so that no one can park next to us. Works for us with our cranky legs, back, lack of ability to distort oneself when trying to manoeuvre ourselves of a tiny gap! Failing that, we go upstairs.
I, almost never, go to car parks that have a charge although I do go to them if they have a free time slot - usually 30 minutes - as I rarely need more time than that. I also try to avoid multi-storey ones as they usually have even smaller spaces. Can't remember the last time I paid for parking.
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I have the same problem with my Ignis, so I always park in an end space. The car parks in the places I usually visit are quite big so I can usually find an empty one on the end of a row. I never go into the car park in my local town, I park on the road just around the corner from the shops (what shops there are these days). It's only a small town, a few miles from my village, and there's always room on that road.
Along with the car park, they sure are @shiney …going to demolish a good half of our town centre. They are getting rid of all the brutalist 70’s concrete buildings and stores and building housing instead. Great…not. A a lot of shops have already shut and left, some to elsewhere, some to never open again.
China has retaliated to the U.S. tariffs by putting an 84% tariff on U.S. products and banned trade from some U.S. companies. The whole situation is getting more silly as each day goes by as the stock markets get the jitters. The U.S. DOW stock market has tumbled again on the news. FTSE just about holding to its rise yesterday. On the up side:- it's possible that because of all this the Bank of England may drop the base rate which should alleviate the pressure on mortgages but do nothing for savings.
It will be interesting to see if China divests itself of the vast quantities of US bonds it holds. Were it to do so, it is doubtful anyone else would want to buy these right now ... which could be a huge problem for the US. I get the impression Trump has put on some of these tariffs to "see what happens". But, it may be reversing the situation if he needs to will not be an easy as just removing the tariffs and expecting things to instantly return to how they were.
