ooh how I hate traffic wardens!
Advice needed please....
I was working in Farnham this morning and because i'm not based at that office I had to use a public car park. My ticket expired at 12:45 so left the office with about 5 mins until the ticket runs out. Me and my colleague enter the car park at the same time as 2 traffic wardens who were about to start their rounds. I put my laptop in the boot at axactly 12:45 and say to my colleague 'that was lucky, 1 min more and I could have got a ticket' (Traffic warden was too far away to hear this) anyway coleague asks me a question about tomorrow I just start to answer it and this traffic warden goes round to the front of my car. this is how the conversation went:
Me 'ok mate it's mine i'm off now'
TW 'why do i care??'
Me 'excuse me???
TW your ticket is 4 mins out, why are you any different?
Me 'i was just putting my stuff in the boot....
Tw interupts 'and that makes you special does it, i'm well within my rights to give you a ticket'
At this point I get in the car and start the engine and take the ticket out of the window
TW 'drive off if you want but you will get it in the post and the fine will be bigger'
Me 'fine then just give me the ****ing ticket'
TW 'can you put the ticket mack in the window'
me (obviously not thinking) slams the ticket face down on the dash, 'well go on then'
TW I can't, you have put it face down
Me (the penny drops) 'well **** you then pal. you just said you cant give me the ticket'
TW takes out his camera and get a nice picture of the back of my car and shouts 'that all i need'
I am rageing about this, what a ******* jobsworth, he obviousy saw me talking and thought my ticket must be either expired or nearly there, what a ******!!!
Am I right in thinking that as all he has in a picture of my car reversing out of a parking space there is sod all he can do!?
Oh and have i said that he was a complete ******!?
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