Pete White, boss of White’s Transport Services, has publicly ridiculed a shopper who made a pointless rant about one of White’s truck’s “taking up so many spaces” in a near-empty supermarket car park in Coventry.
A private message shared by the haulier yesterday reveals that a shopper was bizarrely angered by the sight of a White’s Transport Truck that had been parked up in a Sainsbury’s car park in Coventry for just 15 minutes.
In the message, the man complains about White’s truck “taking up so many spaces”, but the image the man shared also showed that the car park was almost entirely empty.
The nonsensical rant, which has been labelled as an example of the lack of respect the UK general public has for HGV drivers, reads as follows (with grammar and punctuation edits):
“Good afternoon, this photo was taken this morning at 8am in Sainsbury’s Coventry, is it really appropriate for your driver to be taking up so many spaces with his truck? He was parked there for 15 minutes and then came out with a lorry full of shopping, so it isn’t as if he just stopped for the toilet. Surely these things should be done in a car in the driver’s own time. I hope you will deal with this swiftly to avoid it happening again.”
Presumably taken away by the sheer nerve and stupidly shown by the easily-irked shopper, Pete White didn’t pass up the opportunity to share the absurd message he had received with his thousands of Facebook followers:
In his reply, jam-packed with sarcasm, Pete White joked that his employee would immediately be fired for wanting to eat something before mentioning how his lorry driver had parked in a “very busy” car park.
White then tells the man who complained to put his “big boy pants on” and jokingly signs off by referring to himself as a “Pigeon Smuggler” as well as a Transport Manager.
Incredibly, despite being ridiculed online for taking the time to make such a moronic complaint, the shopper then dug a deeper hole for himself by continuing to argue he was in the right.
Replying to White’s sarcastic answer, the man said that he would be “reporting the matter to Sainsbury’s” and then went on to make another daft complaint about White’s HGV driver taking up spaces while he washed his truck.
The shopper, named Chris, didn’t end it there either – he criticised White for ridiculing his comments and made the ludicrous argument that “parking a great big truck in a supermarket car park is unacceptable”.
Going by what was shared on Facebook, the conversation then ended with White branding Chris a “total t*t” and joking that he would send all of his drivers to the supermarket to shop there more often.
The viral post has seen White’s followers on Facebook skyrocket past 60,000. Later in the day, Pete White also said he would offer Chris a free hoodie to say thanks for the help in growing his following – even offering to deliver it personally to the Sainsbury’s Coventry car park.
One would assume that Chris won’t take up the offer; by the looks of things, he’s probably too busy moaning about something else.
Photo credits: Elliott Brown / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 + Whites Transport Services Facebook