To ask how often, if ever, you get parking tickets?

[jamoncrumpets]

We had a lot going on today and I forgot to top up the parking on the pay-by-phone thingy. So we have a £25 fine. DH acting like I shut his balls in the door on purpose and is sulking like an absolute pro.

Obviously I was annoyed to receive it, but it's too late to do anything about it now, so I'll just pay it and get on with life.

I have never EVER received a parking ticket before in the years I've been driving. DH now acting like I'm a financial liability 'Well, you're going to have to set reminders on your phone now to tell you when your time's up...'

AIBU to actually slam his balls in a door and tell him to leave me alone?!

I was over the 3hr limit max in a private carpark by half hr. Had no idea there was a limit... and the fact that l was actually shopping at the attached shopping centre made no difference

Does everyone pay these "Parking Charge Notice" fines from free car parks with a time limit? Like the ones outside supermarkets.

I remember Martin Lewis going through the difference between types of fines and which ones are enforceable.

I got one the other week.

It was in a multi story. You had to pay before you left the car in cash and estimate how long you were going to be.

I didn't have very much cash, there was nowhere to get any and I had no real idea of how long I would be so ended up over staying.

What a stupid system. I would have been happy to pay for the time I'd stayed if I had been able to pay on card when I got back to the car.

We have never had a car park ticket but we once lost our ticket to get out of the car park. I say once...it was twice in a week at £18 a time for the penalty fare We now leave it In the car even though it’s an extra couple of minutes walk to get it!

Never had one, have been driving since 1982.

snewsname

"Years ago one was from a London borough that I'd never ever been to, with a different colour and make of car described on the ticket although it was my registration number. On writing to them, I received a letter saying "we note your concerns, however can see no reason why you should not pay". Fortunately the guy on the phone laughed when I phoned with the sorry tale."

lol same happened to me. I got a fine for driving in a bus lane in a city hundreds of miles away I've never been to in a car that isn't mine! No idea how they botched it up and somehow thought it belonged to me. Could have happened at several points as I have a lease car via work 🤷🏻‍♀️I emailed back informing them of my actual car's number plate and with a screen shot of my work ledger that day and a photo of my diary showing work commitments hundreds of miles from the violation and they came back with that exact email 'we have reviewed your appeal, however we see no reason you cannot pay' 😂 It only got sorted when I rang up. Very amusing!

Never had a parking ticket but they're so easily done. I've been driving only a decade and my tickets have all been driving in a bus lane I didn't see was a bus lane, parking on double yellow lines (when the nose of my car was, literally, about two inches over the lines in an otherwise fine parking space), and a couple speeding tickets within the first few years of driving (36 in a 30 when I didn't know if it was 30 or 40 and logic failed me!).

OH has been driving a short while (passed his test years ago but only recently got a car) and within a few months had scraped someone in a car park (been there) and had to spend £250 getting his car back from being towed away when he parked it and didn't see signs saying council work was being done so don't park here!

Honestly unless it's a frequent occurrence, your husband is being a dick. Is there a small chance he's worried about money or something? I'm actually a really good driver, drove for a living for a few years, never had a crash, but mistakes happen, it'd be tough to find a driver with a totally unblemished record over years of driving!

This thread is making me think of another way being poor shafts you. Those fines that are more expensive if you have to wait even a few weeks for payday, then it doubles.

I got three in the space of 12 weeks (last trimester of pregnancy and my brain had, unfortunately, turned to fluff).
I don't usually forget though as I live in a city and it's swarming with traffic wardens and as soon as I see one I remember to pay.
Also if you have the Ringo app then it texts a reminder before the time runs out.

Check the parking ticket carefully OP, there are lots of technicalities that you can use to get the ticket cancelled. Did they describe your car correctly? Is the number plate written correctly? (especially check for mis-written i/1 or o/0 errors) Name of the street right?

Glad your DP has relented, what a pain.

£25 is bearable. Round here it’s £130 that gies down to £65 when you pay within 2 weeks

Have had loads. Depends where you live how vigilant the wardens are ie if 5 mins late they have already caught you!

Never but I don't drive much. My car has had a ticket though! I don't count it as my fine as we have residents' permits for on street parking and dh helpfully offered to put my new one in my car for me when it arrived in the post. He put the wrong one in my car and I got a fine.

Delegate the responsibility of remembering to top up to him. Especially as he’s being an arse.

I've had one in 25+ years of driving. I had parked on a market traders' spot in a municipal car park. It was written on the ground, very faded, and I simply didn't see it. It wasn't a market day, so I wasn't chiselling anyone out their place. Mine was one of a handful of cars there. I appealed saying all of this and got off.

I'm a very sensible (boring) person and I've had loads.

Got quite a few when I was on mat leave and was rushing to get places with a newborn.

Parked on the wrong bit of a street (half was free parking and half wasn't).

Accidentally put my own reg number in a ticket machine when I was driving DH's car.

I could go on...

Nobody's perfect. £25 isn't a life-changing sum of money.

We hardly ever get them but don’t own a car! We still manage to get the occasional one in a hire car. I wouldn’t stress about it, although I think your dh ibu.

I've never had one, but only because the times I've forgotten or been 5-10 mins late back no one has rumbled me! He's being a silly sausage, these things happen. Better £25 than £50!

I had one once, I just forgot to get ticket in a car park, but realised after a few mins and went back to get one. Traffic warden had just arrived to I explained, and invited her to check that the bonnet was still warm to back up that I'd only been there 5 mins. She was having none of it...my 2 year old DS wanted the loo, so had to give up and take him to loo, which was within sight of car. When I got back she was standing chatting and laughing with another traffic warden nearby, but by this time the shine had somewhat gone off the shopping trip, so I got straight in the car and left.
I tried to appeal on the grounds I had genuinely forgotten and was back at car to buy a ticket within minutes. They wrote back with a whole set of fabricated facts, saying that she had watched the vehicle for 20 mins before putting on ticket (def not true), and that she followed me going back to the shops, without me buying car park ticket, after she put parking ticket on the car. Also absolutely un true, but I couldn't prove anything, so gave up.
So appealing is hard work, and if you get a traffic warden who is willing to make stuff up, you're definitely stuffed!

My OH had one once, in a seaside tow, for parking in what wasn't a designated space...but all the markings were so faint that we hadn't realised there were marked spaces (we just joined the end of a row, and there was a car already parked facing his). He took some photos, but ultimately gave up and just paid it.

i've never had one. DH has had two, both times because he didn't listen to me. Driving through a city centre I say "you're in a bus lane" and point to a sign clearly stating this. He replies "you're wrong, it's between these hours" and continues. Two weeks later a fine appears. The other one I said "this is a one way street" and he says "no, backseat driver, it's not" and lo, it's a one way street. It's almost as though I can see signs he can't.

Fortunately he's learned to listen to me now.

Once, in a small carpark without lines marked, I parked on the wrong side of a no parking sign I didn't see. I like how it's marked on the road in the UK, no searching for a sign that might be metres away up the road.

I can't afford parking tickets so I am always careful.

oh mornings 11 I feel your pain

Check the parking ticket carefully OP, there are lots of technicalities that you can use to get the ticket cancelled. Did they describe your car correctly? Is the number plate written correctly? (especially check for mis-written i/1 or o/0 errors) Name of the street right?

Glad your DP has relented, what a pain.

Never had one in 25 years of driving. But I'm obsessed with checking the time on the ticket or the parking restriction times. Sometimes the signs are confusing so I will not park at all unless I completely understand the rules.

I hate it when you arrive somewhere and the pay machine is broken. Other people just walk off without a worry but I will be phoning the council parking people to report the fault and asking for a reference number to prove I called!

I had one a couple of years ago in our council multi storey...We were going to the cinema and I arrived with a headache and forgot to park on the top floor (3hours +)

I was annoyed with myself for a short while but as we have had free parking in our district ever since I came her 30 odd years ago I didnt mind,

Oh just took the piss for a while

limonviola