Paul Corfield wrote:
On 4 Nov 2006 00:54:05 -0800, "Londoncityslicker"
wrote:

from today until after Christmas the K50 park and ride scheme is in
place. Parking is at Chessington World of Adventures and frequent buses
run to Eden Street in Kingston. Parking is free and the bus fare is
£1.50 return.


http://www.kingston.gov.uk/informati...s.htm?id=57320


The park and ride is a) miles away through rotten traffic. b)notorious
for car break ins. c)not very nice after dark if you are alone

Is it cheaper to deal with the broken windows and stolen car stereos
than to pay the 15 quid in John Lewis and be in a well lit dry manned
parking place?

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:07:34 +0000, mystery
wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:
On 4 Nov 2006 00:54:05 -0800, "Londoncityslicker"
wrote:

from today until after Christmas the K50 park and ride scheme is in
place. Parking is at Chessington World of Adventures and frequent buses
run to Eden Street in Kingston. Parking is free and the bus fare is
£1.50 return.


http://www.kingston.gov.uk/informati...s.htm?id=57320


The park and ride is a) miles away through rotten traffic. b)notorious
for car break ins. c)not very nice after dark if you are alone

Is it cheaper to deal with the broken windows and stolen car stereos
than to pay the 15 quid in John Lewis and be in a well lit dry manned
parking place?

I was only offering a sensible alternative. I don't drive but even if I
did I would not dream of going to Kingston by car.

Bus and train services are perfectly adequate and have the advantage of
not costing anything like £15 for parking.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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Bus and train services are perfectly adequate and have the advantage of
not costing anything like £15 for parking.

But not much good unless you don't mind schlepping all your shopping home
by hand.

Ian

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:33:57 -0000, "Ian F."
wrote:

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
.. .

Bus and train services are perfectly adequate and have the advantage of
not costing anything like £15 for parking.

But not much good unless you don't mind schlepping all your shopping home
by hand.

Well plenty of people do get their shopping home by bus, train and tube
every day of the week. I think too many people have simply become
enslaved to using their cars to do the shopping - it isn't necessary and
other modes and ways of running your life can easily reduce the need for
car borne shopping.

I personally find it a bit amazing that the OP's other half can shop for
virtually a whole day in Kingston but hey it takes all sorts. I accept
that over such a long period she may have bought so much that it is
beyond the capability of a human being to carry all the purchases!
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

"Ian F." wrote in message
...
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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Bus and train services are perfectly adequate and have the advantage of
not costing anything like £15 for parking.

But not much good unless you don't mind schlepping all your shopping home
by hand.

As the OP is schlepping their shopping around for 11 (yes, eleven)
hours, going home on the train seems the easy part.

tim



Ian

tim(yet another new home) wrote:
"Ian F." wrote in message
...
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
...

Bus and train services are perfectly adequate and have the advantage of
not costing anything like £15 for parking.

But not much good unless you don't mind schlepping all your shopping home
by hand.

As the OP is schlepping their shopping around for 11 (yes, eleven)
hours, going home on the train seems the easy part.

Don't think of the car as transport, think of it as a place to store
the shopping.

tim(yet another new home) wrote:

"Ian F." wrote in message
...
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
...

Bus and train services are perfectly adequate and have the advantage of
not costing anything like £15 for parking.

But not much good unless you don't mind schlepping all your shopping home
by hand.

As the OP is schlepping their shopping around for 11 (yes, eleven)
hours, going home on the train seems the easy part.

Who said anything about "schlepping their shopping around for 11"
hours? Presumably, they keep going back to the car and storing it in
the boot whenever it gets too much to carry. Then off to buy some more.
That *is* the normal way of shopping. How else are you going to buy two
or three times the amount you can carry in one day?

In message . com,
" writes
Who said anything about "schlepping their shopping around for 11"
hours? Presumably, they keep going back to the car and storing it in
the boot whenever it gets too much to carry. Then off to buy some more.
That *is* the normal way of shopping. How else are you going to buy two
or three times the amount you can carry in one day?

It's the 11 hour shopping marathon I'm having trouble with- I tend to
get fed up to the back teeth after 3 or 4 hours wandering around shops.
As to leaving stuff in the car, I'd rather buy less than have to return
to the car once or twice- I don't like leaving anything in the car that
the thieving scrotes could get their hands on...
--
Kenny

Kenny ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying
:

It's the 11 hour shopping marathon I'm having trouble with- I tend to
get fed up to the back teeth after 3 or 4 hours wandering around shops.

You last that long?

I'm quite surprised that nobody's yet suggested that the OP's other half
gets the bus/train/whatever to the shops in the morning, then the OP
collects her by car (assuming she has too large a haul to make PT feasible)
at the end of the day.

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:21:32AM -0800, wrote:

Who said anything about "schlepping their shopping around for 11"
hours? Presumably, they keep going back to the car and storing it in
the boot whenever it gets too much to carry. Then off to buy some more.
That *is* the normal way of shopping. How else are you going to buy two
or three times the amount you can carry in one day?

No, the *normal* way of shopping is to do the minimum possible, and to
do as much of that as possible online. Frankly, anyone wanting to spend
11 hours trudging around shops is insane.

--
David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

When one has bathed in Christ there is no need to bathe a second time
-- St. Jerome, on why washing is a vile pagan practice
in a letter to Heliodorus, 373 or 374 AD