To think he was being a jobsworth and this is a very mean-minded rule? Parking

[JaneS]

Where I live, parking on the street in town is very expensive. I paid for parking until 6.20 this evening, but didn't use it all. In some parts of town, you have to key in your registration number when you pay to park, and it is printed on the ticket, but not on this street. So, when I saw a woman going to pay at the machine, I stopped her and asked her if the remaining 40 minutes on my ticket was any good to her as I was going now.

A ticket warden came up and gave me (and her) a big lecture about how this is 'illegal'! Isn't this rubbish? There's nothing to say you shouldn't give someone else your ticket and it seems like a really mean-spirited waste of time to tell people not to. I always thought it was quite nice to not waste the money and give someone else your left-over time. I was really angry to get told off about doing so - especially since there was no reason why I shouldn't and they guy acted as if I should have known it was wrong.

AIBU?

YANBU

People do this all the time where I live (give each other their 'leftovers')

If I've got tickets with time on I always stick them on the machine incase someone else can use them. I can't stand this daft jobsworth attitude, it's pathetic.

Actually, parking tickets are non transferrable.

Oopspressed too soon. We do pass them on if there is time left tho.

I have a feeling that there is some rule that says they are not transferrable.

I always pass mine on though.

Dance, why are they? It doesn't say so on the machine or on the ticket, so if they really are, how was I meant to know? I think that is ridiculous!

Surely if I bought it, I can give it to whomsoever I like?

Like one day travel cards, parking tickets are not transferrable.

But we all do it.

YABU however to think you should be able to do it in front of the relevant enforcement officer.

Parking tickets are non-transferable. Pile of crap as we all do it. Just don't do it when there's a warden watching you!

Oh how terrible of you, did he call the police and have you thrown in a cell like you so richly deserve?!

Strictly speaking they are non-transferrable, but just out of interest how would they enforce that? If you'd smiled sweetly and told him to sod off, what exactly could he have done about it? Do they have the power to fine you or the lady who accepted your ticket? I do this all the time, I think I'd probably just laugh if a jobsworth tried to tell me off about it.

we all do this too, especially at the local hospital where it's £4 to park, however long you're there

I think the non-transferrable thing is quite common but is very mean-minded IMO. I would pass mine on to someone if there was time left. In fact in the car park we often use you see people stick their tickets with left over time on to the ticket machine for others.

I once treid to go into an Oxford carpark that had a barrier that let you in whern one went out but was Pay and Display. Someone stopped at the out barrier and tried to give me a ticket even though I iniatialyl said it was OK I took it as they insisted. As I parked up I heard a voice over the tannoy telling me I should not use that ticket etc .

I think it's dreadful. You've paid for the space for a certain length of time, surely it's up to you whether you park your car in it, allow someone else to park their car in it or cone it off and do a naked rain dance in it.

Well apparently not. But it should be.

Oldraver

Yanbu

what a complete dick he was to dress down two adults like that for breaking a mean-minded, petty rule.

Thick people love to enforce ruled though. He's probably at home now basking in the warm glow of his righteousness. The tosser.

I always pass ours on and gratefully receive any that are given to us.

I do this with travelcards too though. Obviously you never ask money for them, but I used to hand my weekend travelcard to people heading towards the machines if I was finished with it :)

I went over to offer someone the remains of my ticket at a hospital carpark once but they pointed out we were being watched by the parking enforcers hiding in a van! We both slunk away a bit quick and I'm sure if you'd been watching you'd have thought it was a drug deal gone wrong!

D0G That's very bad luck!

They are only nontransferable, Because they are money making schemes! I used to have to pay £2 an hour to visit my friend, and she had to pay it too until they sent her parking permit to her!

Interesting you say where that was, oldraver!

Ok, I didn't realize they were non-transferable but I think it is crappy.

How many times a year does somebody give you something that has monetary value for no reason but to be kind? I think it should be encouraged with a sign saying "Please pass your ticket on"!

Me too! I always thought it was just ordinary niceness. I honestly think if more things like that were encouraged, there'd be fewer complaints about 'society we live in'.

I had a look round at a P&D carpark yesterday. There is nothing on the machine except a price thing but there are signs dotted around with really miniscule print on that say non transferable. DOoesn't say why.

Thing is though, as parking tickets, like one day travel cards, are non transferrable, the ticket warden has a responsibility to enforce that rule. If he gets reported for allowing people to breach the rules, then he's the one getting the shit isn't he? The simple thing is just not to do this within earshot of a ticket warden.