To think I shouldn't have gotten a parking ticket!?

[ShapesAreGreen]

I parked in a car park today. I went to buy a ticket, it wasn't working. I tried card and cash. I went to pick up my son from nursery, after a bloody hard day at work (building works so couldn't park in normal bit). I had no clue what to do, I tried phoning the company (the number that's written on the machine) but was on hold for ages and no one was picking up, so I wrote a note and put it on my car, explaining that the machine wasn't working and I had the money, I told them where I was if they really needed the money (I didn't expect them to come and find me though) but I was just saying that it was obvious I wasn't trying to get out of paying I know rules are rules, but it's just a bit depressing

Was there only one machine?

Appeal ticket, yiu nothing to lose. Just say what youve written here. Be factual. Back up your facts with the mobile phone bill. Tbh in thus situation not sure what id have done as i dint carry a mobile so cant do the mobile parking. Hope things dont go that way...

to the posters who have an issue with the word gotten. My grandma is mid 80's, is very definitely British and uses the word gotten. And amn't I.
I wish you'd gotten a grip on yourselves before you'd posted!

Well you can appeal. But if the note wasn't discovered until after the warden or whoever had started writing the ticket, they can't then stop and change it as it's all electronic and the company would know and they could get in trouble for not doing their job. So don't be angry at the person doing their job. Just appeal and explain what you have here.

Thanks everyone, bar a few!

She would have seen the note, it was very obvious! She stuck the ticket on the window right on top of where the note is in my car she knew

I'll definitely look into appealing. I have photo evidence and everything

Yes they can 'HerRoyal'. They can stop midway through issuing a ticket at any point until they press the button to finally print it out. They should also check all windows before they start to issue the ticket. And it's a requirement to check the ticket machine is operational before you begin issuing tickets. I was a traffic warden in a former life. Your ticket should not stand, unless there was another operational ticket machine in the car park.

That's a good point if she didn't notice my note, how would she have seen a ticket!?

There was only 1 machine

Ah, I didn't realise the note was where the ticket was (that's what happens when you're tired!)
But the ticket thing, I know someone who was a traffic warden. He got in trouble from his company for stopping part way through tickets. He ended up leaving but he had a rant about it to me in the street because he was annoyed.

did you take a photo of the machine saying out of order and if there was other people getting tickets that day and everyone saying the same thing they will have to over turn it

I successfully appealed a ticket for my Dad. The car park was actually free for 2 hours but you needed a ticket with your reg number on. Dad mistyped it and got a ticket even though within the 2 hours. I appealed for him and it was cancelled within a couple of hours. This is a similar situation I'd say.

Gotten is an extremely old English word that was taken over to America with the Colonizers/colonisers, they continued to use it commonly and it stopped being so commonly used here.
A lot of words that we think are American are actually our old language.

Thank you, Buzzard. Yes, we brought "gotten" over in colonial times. We kept it, along with English common law, and the writ of habeas corpus.

Also calling autumn "fall." That appears in Shakespeare.