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Original poster

To think a traffic warden could allow me

65 replies

LynetteScavo · 30/11/2009 22:07

to be just a couple of minutes late back to my car.

I mean everybody gets held up...10 minutes late, then fair play....but she could see me desperately charging towards my car and still slammed the ticket on the wind screen and took a photo.

I think she was mean.

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pinkyredrose · 30/11/2009 22:10

She was mean. But it's her job, if she let everyone off who was a few mins late then she'd probably lose her job. Bummer tho

Original poster
LynetteScavo · 30/11/2009 22:13

She doens't have to let every one off...just me.

Or maybe she could target people with expensive cars, who look like they could esily afford to pay £25.

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pinkyredrose · 30/11/2009 22:27

she's a jobsworthy bitch, damnation to her!

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LynetteScavo · 30/11/2009 22:35

And I didn't like her hair, what I could see of it under her helmet thingy.

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pinkyredrose · 30/11/2009 22:36

was it frizzy?

Original poster
LynetteScavo · 30/11/2009 22:41

No, it was bleached and dry and lank, and needed a good trim.

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pinkyredrose · 30/11/2009 22:47

sounds like she had hair envy then!

providentielle · 30/11/2009 22:49

When I lived in London the parking attendents were a nightmare, I got a ticket when I was in residents parking, so frustrating.

One day there were 4!!!!! of them standing around a very expensive car looking at their watches just waiting till they could ticket it.

mummysgoingmad · 30/11/2009 22:51

hate traffic wardens they're scum!

moaningminniewhingesagain · 30/11/2009 22:51

3 minutes is what they are supposed to give you, after your ticket expires. I found it from a link on moneysaving experts site a while again after it happened to me. I was 8 mins over

I paid, I was over the time but he was still standing by my car and I was trying not to get upset as it was my first trip out with newborn, double buggy plus toddler.

I did think evil thoughts about him for days though.

RenderedSpeechless · 30/11/2009 22:55

agree getting a ticket is an expensive pita, but c'mon LS, tellus, just how late were you? [nosey]

nappyaddict · 01/12/2009 01:43

Can you send her my way? There's a house near us having some work done and every day I have to rant at the builders to move their van off the pavement so I can get by without having to risk my life in the road.

differentnameforthis · 01/12/2009 03:36

Wow...calling someone scum because they are doing their job!

harsh!

Mishy1234 · 01/12/2009 08:43

I always thought you had 5 minutes grace over the time on your ticket (maybe just and Edinburgh thing though)?

I do find it irritating when they hang around cars waiting to give a ticket the second they go over the time. BUT, it is their job and if they weren't there then people would abuse the parking facilities and also park dangerously.

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 01/12/2009 08:49

I don't love traffic wardens - (although I only had one ticket in my life and I was blatantly taking the piss) but they do a job and without them the streets would be chaos! Can you imagine how things would be if people parked wherever they liked? Residents of city centres would never be able to park within 3 miles of their houses, roads would be bottlenecked with people parking up and down them, schools would become car danger zones with no control, people would double park, park on corners etc etc. It would be hideous and dangerous.

Plus parking wardens are very often immigrants working at minimum wage (esp in big cities where the work is contracted out to private companies) and they work to targets and get the sack if they don't write enough tickets.

Parking is a pain but even in the centre of a city I still manage to park legally most of the time. It's not that hard - there is rarely a good reason to park illegally!

sarah293 · 01/12/2009 08:58

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LouIsAWeetbixKid · 01/12/2009 08:59

I realise that they have a job to do but sometimes they take it a bit too far. I have had a ticket once when the kids were at the car but I was carrying grovery bags and they still gave me a ticket as there was no adult at the car. Also got one when I was 2.7cm out of the lines. I measured with a ruler!!

MrsBadger · 01/12/2009 09:33

am with Riven on this one

tis like going into a shop and trying to buy something for £5 when you only have £4.90

mayorquimby · 01/12/2009 10:10

should have just been on time back to your car tbf.

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LynetteScavo · 01/12/2009 18:40

Well, obviously I should have been back to my car, but I wasn't becase I was held up at work.....I could hardly walk out on a client and leave the office abandoned.

And I disagree it's a fine I choose like speeding...speeding can be dangerous, where as leaving your car in an almost empty car park is quite a safe thing to do, IMO.

Why they don't ticket the people who park on the yellow lines next to the car park, and totally block my view so I can't turn right, I shall never know.

And as for her wages, I'm pretty sure she gets paid more than me.

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Fruitbatlings · 01/12/2009 18:43

£25!

it's £50 in London!

Original poster
LynetteScavo · 01/12/2009 18:47

Well, It's £50, but only £25 if you pay in within 14 days.

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DaisymooSteiner · 01/12/2009 18:52

"Don't park illegaly and it wont be a problem. Its a fine you choose."

That has to be a contender for the most priggish comment on Mumsnet ever

NightShoe · 01/12/2009 19:00

I agree with Riven. You broke the rules, you pay the fine.

MrsBadger · 01/12/2009 19:01

oh and if it is work's fault your client meeting overran, why not bill work for it?

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