Room 101: Rob Vickers – Newcastle hooker

1. Parking Space Cheats
This applies to people who have the cheek to park in disabled bays when they’re not disabled and people who park in the Parent & Child bays at supermarkets when they don’t have any kids with them. The wife and I have recently had a little girl so I know from personal experience that those spaces are invaluable when you’re trying to get things in and out of the car.
TRP verdict: You’re right to go off your trolley. Good start.
2. ‘Anti-social’ media
Mobile phones are great when they’re used in the right time and place, but that rule of thumb seems to increasingly falling by the wayside. Call me old fashioned but people seem more concerned with looking at their phones than actually having a proper conversation. Quite often you’ll see the academy lads sat around a table together with their eyes glued to a screen. Okay, they may have been all conversing on ‘WhatsApp’ or looking at videos to show one another but that’s not what I call being sociable. For me, people who check their Facebook page or Twitter feed when they’re lying in bed cross the line. The only place you’re safe from this phenomenon is in a team meeting. Players get fined, I think it is 100 quid, if your phone goes off in one of them.
TRP verdict: Yep, it’s time for people to get Linkedin to the real word again.
3. Ponderers
Time is too precious to waste it deliberating over which place you should go and visit as a family or where you should go out for dinner etc. etc. Even when you’ve decided where you’re going for something to eat there’s still the risk of indecision over what to choose from the menu or which drink to have. I just like to get on with things. It’s equally frustrating when my opinion is canvassed only for every suggestion I come up with to be rejected. Maybe it’s just a male thing where you cannot ever get anything right!
TRP verdict: Without a shadow of doubt, that’s 3/3.