Real Life MMD: Should I pay the fine?

meher

I recently drove to London with a friend in my car, where we found a pay and display parking spot. I was willing to pay but my friend wasn't so we kept looking. At 11pm, he saw some single yellow lines, where we parked. I was worried about getting a ticket but thought we'd leave early morning before free parking ended. However, we overslept and got a £70 ticket. I offered to split it but he refused, saying it was my car. Should I have to pay it all?

Yes. Don't try to shift the blame on someone else. If he asks you to jump from a cliff would you? No. You listened to him because it suited you, instead of having the integrity to do the right thing. You're totally responsible for your car and the blame lies entirely on your shoulders. Pay up before you lose any self-respect.

kazzamadoo

You should pay the fine and chalk this one up to experience. If the friend wouldn't split the parking cost at the pay and display stage, I'm not surprised they won't split the fine with you! You haven't said if they are contributing to the petrol costs, but either way, lesson learned concerning this person. I would pay the fine and NEVER offer this person a lift again.

If they ask for a lift in future perhaps you could suggest they sign a contract in advance and agree to split all costs involved / incurred as a result of the journey before you agree ..?! At least then they would have to take responsibility for any decisions to which they contribute (i.e. dismissing the pay and display option but not objecting to the single yellow line, or making any effort to ensure you both got up in time the next morning). You allowed this person decision-making rights without any responsibility for the outcome and while that is nice for them, it has been an expensive mistake for you.

Good luck!

Augustus_the_Strong

I think you'll have to pay the fine yourself as your friend sounds like a total !!!!!!!!!!. I bet he didn't share the petrol costs on the way down either. Give yourself the pleasure of telling him where to go.

Augustus_the_Strong

The !!!!s in the post I've just posted said f r e e - l o a d e r - why is this banned? It's not a swearword or anything.

JoannaS_3

So let me get this right....your "friend" is happy to go in your car, be driven to London using your Petrol and knowing he's going to the rip-off parking capital of the world then doesn't want to pay to park?! :mad:

Well if he was my friend he wouldn't be anymore!!!!! I would have actually said to him when you found a 'pay and display' spot, why did you come if you're not going to put your hand in your pocket?!!

Considerate road users don't park on ANY Yellow lines (double or single) at ANY time of day (they are there for a reason and that reason isn't free parking at night time!!) and unfortunately for you as it is your car and you chose to park it on a single yellow line, it's your fine!!

Pay it, learn from it and make new friends!!!

1ukphoenix

Who is more foolish: the fool or the fool that follows him?

:T

ilesmark

Maybe it's too late now, but another thought that's just occurred to me - the OP's post reads as though he and the hopefully-by-now ex friend were sleeping in the car when the traffic warden slapped a ticket on it.

Is this so? If yes, I would be questioning why he didn't tap on the window to wake them up and ask them to move before issuing the ticket.

Marco12452

You have to pay, your car, you parked it.
Whether you take advice or not from someone else is your judgement.
Any real friend would either not pressure you to take risk or take some responsibility though.

harryhound

ilesmark wrote: »

Is this so? If yes, I would be questioning why he didn't tap on the window to wake them up and ask them to move before issuing the ticket.

A provincial writes?

The warden is a migrant on a bonus scheme. His mate will be along soon and then the vehicle will have two tickets on it.

I've had a ticket on a van with its doors open when delivering to a neighbouring shop's basement: "no visible sign of delivering" while the shop keeper was showing me where to put the delivery.

These days you may well not even get a ticket, just a penalty notice through the post on the strength of a photograph.

It is just a highway robbery system in over crowded parts of London.

harryhound

Augustus_the_Strong wrote: »

The !!!!s in the post I've just posted said f r e e - l o a d e r - why is this banned? It's not a swearword or anything.

You can have lots of fun with the nanny software.

It won't accept small pet cats - "!!!!!", and has caught up with the residents if the former steel town, making them non people for living in S!!!!horpe.

I expect free loader has been used as abuse, on the "debt free" forum threads.

I was once in correspondence with my solicitor and used the term - "we don't want this development to queer our pitch", and his net nanny shunted my email into some sort of abuse file. Fortunately I referred to the missing message in my next email and we realised why the communication breakdown had occurred.