Paying for parking with the APP. And being shouted at by s stranger.

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We went for a cheeky day out, found a car park and parked up.
At the pay station was one of them Q box thingies to download the info and pay.
We did it , it didn’t work and there was a gaggle of folk having the same issue.
With a bit of faffing we managed to pay.

Anyway, getting some stuff out of the boot a couple of ladies, approached me and asked how to pay for parking. I explained that after some difficulties that several people had encountered we had managed it as the board says electronically.

The weirdest thing, lady number one got really really stroppy with me. Saying that she doesn’t have a phone or computer to pay for parking. How the hell was she supposed to pay with no phone, she doesn’t own one.
She was raising her voice and really getting annoyed.
She demanded to know why she couldn’t pay with coins. I replied that I don’t know and that as far as I could see, it’s electronic payment only.
She then shouted at me, “well I’m leaving my car and don’t know what will happen”.
I was fucked off by this time at being fucking shouted at by a stranger so I said that she should expect a fine through her door, shut my boot and walked off.
WTF Is wrong with people! I don’t own the car park! I didn’t know she doesn’t have s phone! I was being helpful & chatty I thought.

AIBU to think “bay shit” lady was not right.

We SO should have a cheeky section!
I have cheeky baths to get away from the kids. Cheeky biscuits hiding in the kitchen so I don’t have to share.
Cheeky extended shopping adventures on my own without kids asking for stuff, send DH off to another dept with the kids so I can browse in peace.
Cheeky lie ins when DH takes kids to footy at weekends.

Ahhh man, all my cheeky adventures involve escaping my miracle children!!!

Mine do too op 😂

This

Why am I picturing you as Bert from Mary Poppins?

Bert is a cheeky chappy hopping into chalk pictures…but there ain’t no electronic parking meters in that land!
Plus there’s lovely cartoon characters, not an shouty angry lady!

Which of the princes has died? I’ve missed that.

I was once shouted at by a man who asked me for directions to the railwaystation. I explained how to get there but for some reason it made him angry.

Another time a woman got angry with me when she couldn't find a hotel car park. I pointed out the entrance to her but apparently that was the wrong thing to do.

On each occasion I walked away. I said to the woman that I was trying to help her but as she was being rude I wasn't going to anymore.

Why on Earth do people take out their anger/impatience/frustration etc out on the person who is trying to help them! Weird.

She sounds like a right miserable bag. Keep her from your mind and move on.

I once got a long angry lecture about the danger of leaving a dog in a car.
Told her, not my dog, not my car.
She ranted a bit more.
Still not my dog.
The car was parked outside my place of work so somehow that made it my responsibility.

That happened to me in a hospital car park and I just walked away once I established she just wanted to rant at me; quite odd as it’s not like it was up to me

What does 'you day out' mean?

@swimlyn they clearly meant 'your'

Well I've got a cheeky bottom. And I wouldn't be without it!

I've encountered this kind of thing too. I find that if you do someone a small favour, they're not grateful for the small favour - they're angry at you for not having done them a bigger favour. Weird.

I find a “can I just stop you there” works as they get going, and then walking away.

Oh right...

Thank you so much for helping me with that.

😁

Why are these types of drivers never caught by the police, how awful

Firstly, your username 😂

Secondly, people are weird. I have a family member like this who refuses to use any kind of technology but gets very annoyed when she's inconvenienced by said refusal of technology. She also had a rant at a car park in Whitby because it was contactless only at the time and she had to get some poor twenty-something visitors to help her pay for parking.

I suspect some of these 'poor souls' want you to jump to their rescue and pay for them.

Suspicious, moi?

It is annoying though when machines don't take money. A lot of the apps are v shit and I think designed that way so they can bork you with a fine later on.

But yes some of these helpless ranters are the cheeky ones who want you to do everything for them.

Touch my bum, this is life.

😂😂Now I'm picturing the ranter pausing to say "oh alright, what is it?" and then staring, gobsmacked, as you offer a jaunty little wave and saunter off into the sunset.

This happened to a friend and I a few months ago, weirdly enough.

We were parked up in a car park in a nice wee English village, fiddling with the app, when a chap marched up and demanded to know what was going on.

I explained that we weren't from round those parts (we are Scottish, so as soon as I opened my mouth it was presumably fairly obvious), agreed that the app was fiddly and offered to show him my phone to walk him through the process.

He then went off on one, yelling that it was a disgrace and that he would be phoning 'the ombudsman' that VERY SAME DAY, before stalking off.

We were both very confused by the whole thing - I'm still not sure what he expected me to do about it - but we did have a good laugh about it and now, if ever we're ticked off about something, we declare in our finest red trousers 'Middle England' voices that we'll be CONTACTING THE OMBUDSMAN THIS VERY DAY. 😄

It’s more annoying when you use the app to book in advance, have a lovely day and then get a threatening letter demanding lots of money a few weeks later.
JustPark app in Brighton, I’m looking at you.
I appealed and won, having kept the receipt, but had no one to rant at.

Having to fanny around with an app is the worst thing, I find it really annoying and a step backwards in many ways, I wouldn't shout at a stranger in a car park though.

I had this once. I was heavily pregnant, had been in hospital for mysterious bleeding. Luckily all fine and was discharged later in the day.

As we left the hospital DH told me to go to the car, which wasn't parked too far away, while he went and walked to the only working payment machine bloody miles away.

A woman sees me approaching our car and asks rather curtly if I have change for the payment machine as she only has notes. I apologise and tell I have no money on me at all. She starts screaming at me that she needs to leave and demands to know why I don't have any change! I explain I don't have my purse on me as it wasn't something I thought to grab when I rushed to hospital, terrified I might be losing my baby. But I said if she hung on my DH might have some change as he'll be on his way back from paying any minute now. Butbshe continued to bark at me that she didn't have time to be standing about waiting for my bloody husband, and what was she supposed to do if he didn't end up having any change after she'd waited around...could I guarantee that he would have change for her?! I was quite upset by this point, I couldn't get my head round why she thought I was responsible for her parking payment issues.

DH had heard her shouting at me a good few feet away before she'd even noticed him, so he'd already seen what a nightmare she was. As soon as she realised he was there she just snapped at him "ah, here he is! SHE says you might have change, so do you have any or not?!"

"Piss off!" is the only response she got from him. He had change, but he wasn't giving it to her.