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?

is consider it my mini rage against the capitalist machine to pass on my ticket

Yes, the ticket warden has a responsibility to let you know it's technically "illegal". But, they do not have to lecture you.

As already said, they're only non-transferable to make more money. You've paid x amount to rent that space for x hours. So it does not matter at all which car is that space.

YANBU to think it's a mean-minded rule, it really is. The amount of times someone has given me bus ticket or travelcard and vice versa is quite heart-warking really - always restores my faith in human nature.

However, for all the warden knows, you could have been a type of mystery shopper so YABU to call him a jobsworth, but I see why you might do.

Oh D0G that is funny.... trying to give the traffic warden your ticket!

It's not like nobody's paid for the time! What a money spinner it must be for local councils...

garage, if I was a 'mystery shopper' I'd have given him a really horrible report! There's no need to treat me as if I were deliberately breaking the law, especially since he couldn't point me to anywhere on the parking machine or the ticket where this was written (though, to my shame, neither of us turned the ticket over and I've since discovered it is written on the back! ).

I do think it is shite, especially since I've not parked in town for a while and it is four quid for three hours! Won't be parking there again!