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Was I unfair on the traffic officer?

55 replies

Lilllypad11 · 14/04/2024 15:23

I’m posting this full well knowing I was prob being very unfair but I had a huge panic attack last night didn’t sleep well and then had to wake up to go to a service at the temple.

Anyway, I had to get some lunch with my mum after service and I stopped on a double yellow line like lots of others. I was sort of blocked in. The attendant kept pointing at me. Constantly. Then stood next to me. I said I’m blocked in I can’t move wait. Then he just stood there and didn’t move so I said rather loudly “will you please just wait I can’t move for gods sake” he then started saying “look I’ll just give you a ticket at this point” so I then reversed into a bay well away from the yellow line. He said “NO YIU CANT BE THERE it’s near the yellow line” I then said rather loudly “look I’m waiting for someone I’m not where near the yellow line please just give me a minute. They haven’t got their phone I can’t call them and this is a dodgy area” he then said flippantly and rudely “look I’ll just give you a ticket” and started waving his device at me. so at this point I’m stressed, overstimulated, tired and my adhd brain can’t take any more and I lost it and said “you really don’t need to take your job this seriously you know. There’s really no need to be such a jobsworth. I was parked in a bay and not obstructing because I was waiting”

anyway I had to move into the temple car park in the end then I felt like a complete a hole for behaving like that in front of a temple. I’m not even religious it’s just I still have respect.

how much of an a hole have I been

OP posts:
TheYearOfSmallThings · 14/04/2024 15:28

Yes, you were an arsehole. You should have nodded and driven around the block.

MississippiAF · 14/04/2024 15:27

wtf.

Geebray · 14/04/2024 15:27

I am very confused. You parked on a double yellow, thought the parking attendant was being unreasonable towards you for saying they were going to issue a ticket because you said you could not move (as if that changed anything), then you did move, and then what? You were somehow near a double yellow?

What are you actually trying to say here, OP?

YourSnugHazelTraybake · 14/04/2024 15:26

A massive one. You were illegally parked and got arsy at him for literally doing his job. If you were blocked in then you'd been there for a while, so you weren't just quickly picking someone up.

Dartmoorcheffy · 14/04/2024 15:25

If you were blocked in and couldn't move how did you manage to get into a bay??