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OK, another angle. Why is an empty trolley too much to carry, but bags of shopping aren't? Does a trolley weigh more than the shopping it's designed to carry?

Reply #722. Sep 15 11, 5:06 PM

I've just had a peep at some trolleys, and the lightweight ones are around 2kg and will carry up to 20kg of shopping. Some are even designed to climb stairs!

Reply #723. Sep 15 11, 5:10 PM

I've tried to be helpful with my suggestions--I've had to deal with physical limitations myself, as many of us have had to do--but I give up. Call a taxi, call a friend? I'm sorry, but I've run out of ideas.

Reply #724. Sep 15 11, 5:12 PM

So have I! There have been many times, well-documented in the archives of FT, when I was grateful for a car with someone else behind the wheel: son, friend, taxi driver. I used a stick to walk while I was waiting for a hip replacement, and used it once to hit the back of the bus when it didn't stop at the bus stop. It stopped for a second when I hit it, then sailed away again. (That may have been the last time I tried to get on a bus in Bedford.)

Gary, if you're happy to use buses, and to carry shopping, there doesn't seem to be anything we can suggest that will make your life easier. Presumably carrying heavy shopping can't be that hard.

Reply #725. Sep 15 11, 5:27 PM

I tried to offer advice based on my experiences, but I will not feed into someone's negativity. Maybe you should suffer in silence, as some of do, and have a little rosier disposition that encourages people rather than drives them away--as you've done me? So long.

Reply #726. Sep 15 11, 5:32 PM

If taxis are expensive, then you might have to make cuts in other parts of your budget. That's what happens.

Reply #727. Sep 15 11, 5:33 PM

I apologize for my last two posts, Gary.

Reply #728. Sep 15 11, 10:52 PM

no apologies needed opatmeal i do value yours, lesleys and mares comments and others, i am just stubbon.

Reply #729. Sep 16 11, 1:41 AM

"i am just stubbon"
I think we guessed that. :D
Does that mean that you are yet to be convinced of the joys of owning a shopping-bag-on-wheels, with or without Trekkie's face or golden dots?

Reply #730. Sep 16 11, 6:14 AM

i remain and will always will remain unconvinced about shopping trolley.

But i will listen to advice and appreciate your friendship greatly.

Reply #731. Sep 16 11, 6:57 AM

Forgot how fabulous an actor Brian Blessed is currently watching him in Doctors, such a fine actor am still waiting for his most famous quote though Gordons alive, That said he is absoloutely brilliant.

Reply #732. Sep 16 11, 7:09 AM

OK, I can take a hint. I can't get my head round your logic, but it's *your* logic, so I give up. Notice I didn't include the words "for ever."

Reply #733. Sep 16 11, 7:29 AM

Lesley don't give up what ever i need you mare and others to keep nagging at me it keeps me going, things do change

Reply #734. Sep 16 11, 10:38 AM

OK, will do.

GET A ROTTEN TROLLEY!

Is that the sort of thing you had in mind?
*smiles sweetly and flutters eyelashes*

Reply #735. Sep 16 11, 11:25 AM

mmm Lesley not trolley get as breathe long a i, rearrange the words lesley lol. Now offers of Chauffer greatly accepted lol only needed for 6 or 7 weeks

Reply #736. Sep 16 11, 11:41 AM

Goodnight one and all am struggling tonight, hopefully be back tmw

Reply #737. Sep 16 11, 2:55 PM

trojan11

How about a mobility scooter? You could apply, I imagine, for mobility allowance to help toward the cost. Used machines vary in price but a couple of hundred should get you something. Not sure if mobilty allowance covers used machines, but it might be worth a try.
On the other hand, if I ever tire of teaching and chewing on cockroaches (catching the flying variety can be something of a pain), might I offer my services as a general factotum? You know....flapping ostrich feathers, hacking obstructive shoppers/bystanders do death with a machete, kind of thing? I'm cheap, 'tho not terribly reliable.

Reply #738. Sep 16 11, 3:30 PM

Now that sounds like fun! A year ago, Jonathan took me to Tesco and got me one of their powered mobility scooters, the sort that do 0-4 mph at a squeeze of the handles. If you saw a little old lady with an "I {heart} Papworth" badge, and an evil gleam in her eye - that was me.

You do get a new angle on people's stupidity when you're travelling around at knee height. People walk in front of you because they think that you're not moving because you want to sit there all day. It doesn't occur to them that you're waiting for a space to move into, so they fill the space before you get a chance.

And you wouldn't believe the number of small straggling children waddling into your path. From standing-up height, they look quite sweet, if you like that sort of thing. From scooter height, they're TARGETS! You could pick them off, one by one, and nobody would notice.

Try it. I think you;d like it.

Reply #739. Sep 16 11, 4:35 PM