h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes I have got a paking ticket, but thats not the point, would mind so much if i was deliberty park illegily but i was broken down, i could'ent even start the bloody thing was trying to repair the said car when....

"You'll have to move it"
"yeah i'm trying to move it, but its broken down"
"thats not my problem isit?, move it now"
"well i wish i could, but i've asked it nicely but it says no"
"move it now"
"ok"
"are you taking the micky out of me"
"i'm trying not to, but hey if you like i can do!"
"ok five minutes, its gone or you got a ticket!"

five minutes later

"oh dear its not moved (Evil grin) i think it needs a ticket"
"christ can't you give someone a break eh!"
"well if i give you a break, i'ed have to give everyone else a break, would'ent I"
"Now theres a thought"
"NAH sorry mate, its morre than my job's worth"
"so your going to give me a ticket cus my car is broken down and i can move it, even though i have been trying ever since you have been standing there, nbot even asked if you could help"

on the car goes the ticket (£45)

my car then decides to start, great

its this sort of thing that gives you the pip! you get some BA$T&&D stood waiting for you to fail, glouting over the fact, taunting you to fail and when you do, just laugh's at you! It's strange twist of human nature this, theres a certain type of low life that don's a i'll fitting unform, a hat that only can be supported on your head by your ears, pounding the streets, a JONNY NO MATES, I wish there was a hunting season on these littler buggers, makeing it more of a sporting chance, if you hunt them with dog's might make life more interesting and i doubt that anyone will be offended as these people are vermin! real vermin the type of vermin with a capital VER!

Me bitter? i think not!

That's why I ride a bike

just don't get me started

That's why I walk! The ticket nazis are the same way here!

Traveller in Time parking
"Just why did you start it after you got ythe ticket? I concider it an expensive parking fee but so what? You pay for it to park on a place where you are probably not supposed to. But having the ticket gives clearance to stay there for a while. "

Think positive.
Sods law if he didn't give you a ticket it might not have started so you would of had to pay £150 or more for a tow truck.
Write to the place it comes from and ask if you can get it revoked.
Just a thought

I'M A Mechinc and i know it would have started, and it did it! was a question of "when" not "will it" and the fact he gave me a ticket its just another form of taxation, and i wish i could drive my car like people who ride bikes, "through red lights" in the middle of the road" when theres a perfectly good! and may i offer to add, 6 foot of unused piece of road space called a "cycle way" with no bikes in it at any time of the day, cus there at lease 2 foot outside it on the main carrige way or terrorising pedesterains on the foot path! and the old stand by down the one way street the wrong way! answering the mobile phone is an other!

the list is endest

Are you going to appeal the ticket? Seems to me you have a pretty good case.
Though sometimes appealing is more than it's worth.

Wanna know what cheeses me off about drivers? (I'm a pedestrian, I have a car but I don't drive it. I'm a pedestrian) I hate when drivers don't use their indicators. It's not like it takes much effort to flick that little stick up or down. I hate trying to cross the road and waiting for a car to go past only to have it turn before it gets to me when it hasn't indicated to do so.
I also hate drivers who drive while on the phone. It's illegal to do that here. (Hands free is okay). It wouldn't be so bad, except they forget everything but talking on the phone and all common sense flies out of their head.
Pedestrians on the phone do this too. They slow down their walk, sometimes start zig-zaging or wandering about in little circles, oblivious to anyone who wants to get past.

Okay, I'll stop now.

I'm a cyclist and I had some idiot on the phone cross the road infront of me without looking, I yelled abuse at him and he looked at me as if to say, 'who the hell do you think you are interupting my phone call' next time I hope he walks infront of a car

Your nice arn't ya.
But i totally agree.

Pedestians on the phone are more of a danger than car drivers using a phone

I know what you mean people think because they're walking they have the right to walk where they want and people in or on transport should look out for them

The thing that gets me is those electric golf buggy things old people ride on, they are a ing nuscence

i think they are the same as every other form of transport even pedestrians pushbike riders they tend to cut you up and seem to creap up i ride all forms of transport so it doesn't bother me

I thought of this thread this morning while trying to cross a busy road on the way to work. I was waiting for a break in the traffic, one was coming up right after the next car. He was going rather slow and turned just before he got to me! No indicator! I could've crossed. Idiot me, I should've guessed he was going to turn.

Agreed, pedestrians on phones are a menace. In fact everyone on the streets (who isn't us, of course) be they on foot or wheels are menaces and must be avoided at all costs.