Over the last week or so in very cold weather I have been shopping to find time and time again shops with the doors wide open, propped open even, with hot air blasting out onto the streets.
And another thing while I’m in grumpy mode: drivers who drive in terrible driving conditions without adequate lighting, with a bulb missing perhaps and or badly adjusted headlights, or driving with beam up regardless of other people on the road.
Is it me?
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No, Nym.
Even before the snow, I find this sort of thing immensely irritating. I drive very defensively around the lanes here, but I’m always horrified by others who do not.
It’s just worse in the snow. I try not to drive in these conditions but needs must.
I agree with both of you. Shops with doors open why? Robert Dyas say it is a rule from head office as does the card shop in Orpington. In the card shop the staff are so cold they are wearing scarfs and coats because of the doors.
As for lights there are 3 types of loons. Those with faulty lights, granted a bulb can go any time so maybe some leeway here, but the guy that delivers our paper has had one headlight for over a year (what MoT), then the ones who drive with no lights in poor visibility, they feel safe because they can see me. And finally the idiots who drive with front and/or rear fogs on when visibility is just dark. Why drive on fogs they do not give good light, in fact they dazzle on coming drivers in wet conditions. Fogs should only be used in bad conditions and preferably not in towns.
Not just you! Quite apart from the fact that I object going into a shop that’s too cold (or here too hot) I know who is going to pay for trying to heat / cool the whole world – me. It particularly irks me when I am being told to fry or freeze and cut down on my use of electricity to ‘save the planet’ and the really big users refuse to take the simple precautions, like shutting doors and switching off lights, that I do to save my money while Big Business and Governments can use all the energy they like because they have my pocket to dig in…
Ditto, ditto, ditto!
The whole lot pisses me off mightily!
Just as bad are the idiots who drive in bad conditions as if it’s a summer’s day on the motorway, scaring everyone else, spraying them with slush and risking pile-ups. I call them the ‘real drivers’ – as they would dub themselves.
Janus I wish that those who you describe did drive like it was a summers day now, Roof down windows open heating off. That’ll make’em think.
Yes Pseu, it’s you, open a bottle of Pino and put another in the fridge.
Shop door warm air floor blowers: Excellent devices – in many of Embra’s upmarket shop entrances in winter you will find a line of kilted Scotsmen straddling the heat source with a look of utter joy on thier normally scowling features 🙂
OMG, you are in a minority, but I like your advice.