Parking fine, who pays?

[Dirtgirl]

This is a bit of a dilemma. It is due to a situation that I should have avoided by being more assertive.

I am a gardener for a house in central london. Have only recently taken this job over from a friend, I work on this job for a couple of hours on Friday mornings. The lady rang me earlier in the week asking if I'd clear the moss of the drive. So I took in my jet washer, and little other stuff as I thought it would take the allotted time up.

So I arrive, and their two cars are parked on the drive, I also have to park on the drive as they never give me residents permits to park when I go there.

So when I arrived to clean the drive, I said I'll need you to move cars etc. So they move one back a bit. Still all 3 on drive. So this is where I should've said I'll go home and do it when you're not using the drive - but I wanted to get paid and not waste a journey.

So I do what I can, then ask them to move the cars again. I move mine back so it is now half in the pavement so they can get theirs to move over. They move so they block me out, then they go out. Then I get a ticket.

Who pays? AIBU to pass it on to them?

Sorry it is a bit of an essay.

You pay as you parked the car illegally.

You pay and you're right next time be more assertive

You parked you pay

You, sorry. And in future make sure you get a residents permit (they should be offering them anyway)

Shame - I'll suck it up and pay it. DH was saying different.

I think they are very unreasonable not to give you a visitors permit so that you could park on the road. If they wanted the drive cleaned then surely it was obvious that all the cars would need to be off the drive while that happened?

However I expect that - if they are so mean that they will not give you a visitors permit - that they are probably going to be completely unreasonable about paying for your ticket. If I was you I would chalk it up to experience and just pay the ticket asap so you do not incur additional charges - and if you can afford to - drop them as a client. If not then I would try and recoup the cost of the ticket over the next few visits by putting your prices up.

Sam100, perhaps plants will be more expensive from now on .

If they blocked you off the drive and went out without giving you a residents permit ticket then they should pay! How can you clean a drive without moving the cars off it?

Why didn't they move the cars off the drive where they asked you to do the work in the first place.
before you pay, tell them what happened to see if they will offer to go haflves on it or something.
You never know!

What very odd people, what did they expect you to crawl under there cars??

Presumably they don't normally give you a visitors permit because there's room on the drive so you don't normally need it?

It's only because this time you were working on the drive that you would obviously need to park elsewhere. You should have said to them as soon as you arrived that you need a visitors permit because you need the drive clear to work on it.

Assuming you didn't ask for one, you should pay. If you made it clear you needed the drive free to work and requested a visitors permit and they refused you, then yes I'd ask them to pay it.