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After I moved to the UK I had a bit of a culture shock moment about this with my girlfriend; she just left the cart out on the parking lot. "wtf are doing?!"; "
by arp242 3y ago
After I moved to the UK I had a bit of a culture shock moment about this with my girlfriend; she just left the cart out on the parking lot. "wtf are doing?!"; "oh, someone will come and tidy it, everyone leaves it out".
She is a very kind and considerate person.
- sandworm101 3y agoGiven the per-minute parking regs sometimes seen in the UK, this might be a rational approach.
- arp242 3y agoNah, just free parking at Tesco and Sainsbury's. I can't recall ever paying for parking at stores like that.
- sanitycheck 3y agoThis isn't normal, everybody puts them back - especially since the "slot in £1 to unchain" system became normal. Just FYI.
- arp242 3y agoWell this was actually quite a long time ago, and it's really "then-girlfriend" – it's just that "girlfriend" reads better and it doesn't really matter. Didn't have to insert any money (which I specifically recall because it surprised me). But whether you or I consider it "normal" isn't really important, she considered it "normal", and I can only assume that's because when she grew up everyone was doing it and it was "normal".