Do you actually pay to park in car parks?

fb1969

skivenov wrote: »

Nope, I generally park it in there on Monday morning and pick it up Friday night. The trolleyman even keeps an eye on it for me

So this was you then?



www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/asda-picture-of-car-parked-in-supermarket-1504565

skivenov

I did actually used to do that. I worked nights at Tesco and drove a car with a leaky sunroof.

[Deleted User]

Yes I'll park in a supermarket car park for longer than the 2 hour limit. This is a faceless supermarket we are talking about. Not some poor one man band with a couple of pay&display spaces that we are depriving a living of.

robatwork

Guys_Dad wrote: »

Has this thread had some posts removed? Because at the moment, I can't see the relevance of this post or ManxRed's either.

Edit:- Sorry, re-read posts and understand your comment.

Am unsure if ManxRed meant that I was trolling - I was asking a completely genuine question, and certainly not advocating either course. Seeing that picture ^^^ reminds me that cars must be getting longer and wider as I really struggle to park leaving room for me to get out, and room for the car on the passenger side to open their door and not hit mine. And not leave my rear/front end sticking out too.

I prefer the car parks I saw widely in the US, where you go in forwards, diagonally, with plenty of room to each side to get out, and allowing a reasonable view backwards when leaving.

The only one I have seen here is Sainsburys in Dunstable but even those spaces aren't wide enough.

trisontana

It's even worse in some older multi story car parks where the bay widths are determined by the space between the concrete pillars. They were designed when most cars were smaller than they are now. There is no way of getting round that unless they (say) turn three bays into two. I don't see that happening somehow.

Coupon-mad

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

It's attitudes like that which give reason for the PPCs to exist.

This! That's why we NEVER condone not paying or deliberately parking across 2 bays or whatever. And because it's unsociable to other drivers.

ILW

I have stopped paying following the info given here. If you can't beat them and all that.
Never park in disabled bays though.

Stroma

ILW wrote: »

I have stopped paying following the info given here. If you can't beat them and all that.
Never park in disabled bays though.

The problem of course troll is that you never got this information from anyone on here

ILW

Stroma wrote: »

The problem of course troll is that you never got this information from anyone on here

I did not know that the penalty notices were just speculative invoices until I read it on here. As that is the case, what is the point in paying to park?

trisontana

ILW wrote: »

I did not know that the penalty notices were just speculative invoices until I read it on here. As that is the case, what is the point in paying to park?

That way you are better than the PPC scum . As I said above, it's sticking to the moral high ground, and it takes away one excuse for a landowner to hire a PPC.