Web Forum: Shopping hell

Sep 22 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A BRIEF shopping trip to the newly opened Sainsbury’s at Salendine Nook got one of our Forum users in a right huff.

Holly sparked off the thread: “What a nightmare. Just popped up to Sainsbury’s for couple of things – mistake being I went at school lunch time.

“Those students are an accident just waiting to happen. They never look before crossing the road, too busy texting etc. They seem to think it’s a big joke when one has to brake with a vengeance, missing them by inches – not on the two crossings provided for them either but in between them.”

Unclegrumpy had been there too: “I had a similar experience in that very same supermarket at dinner time.

“I couldn’t work out were the hundreds of children had appeared from, they were not in uniform, the lasses were dressed like tarts and were caked in make up, the lads had those falling down trousers, all were clutching mobile phones as they shuffled around the shop buying, from what I could make out, fizzy pop, sweets, crisps and cigarettes. What happened to school dinners?

“No doubt they shuffled back to school leaving a trail of litter and causing a road traffic hazard.”

holly added “The ones not in uniform are from the college. So you get both, and as you say, hundreds of them, sat all over the car park, mess everywhere between the hours of 12 and 2.

“No wonder they need all those zebra crossings on New Hey Road, just wished the students would use them instead of strolling across the road like there was no tomorrow.”

pgt67 agreed with both: “I have had similar problems with students crossing the Junction where the new Sainsbury’s is.

“Last time I was coming down New Hey Road turning left when three of them just stepped straight out and crossed.

“I wound me window down to ask if they ever thought of looking and all I got was the F word.”

“Thought about writing to the school commenting on their behaviour whilst wearing their uniform and that maybe a visit from ‘Tufty the Squirrel’ may be needed but then thought why bother, save my time and effort.”