How to get back at traffic wardens???

phill99

OP : having looked at your other witty, intelligent and erudite other posts, have you considered a career in TV? The Jeremy Kyle Show has a chair with your name on it.

Melchizadek

with the use of the James Bond (Goldfinger) revolving numberplates....works for me!! :>)

DKLS

Buy a car from the Isle of Man, register to a friendly B&B over there, then park for free wherever you like, and as a brucie bonus you can ignore speed cameras as well.:cool:

harveybobbles

Everytime you park up, remove all of the windows from your car so they cant put a ticket on them..

DoctorFoster

phill99 wrote: »

OP : having looked at your other witty, intelligent and erudite other posts, have you considered a career in TV? The Jeremy Kyle Show has a chair with your name on it.

He ain't all there is he?

PenguinJim

I've failed to find the link to this story, so my apologies if this retelling is rubbish. But a retired gentleman and his partner were in town shopping, and the man stood outside while his wife was inside a particularly dull shop. This allowed him to notice the traffic warden approach and begin writing the ticket. "Excuse me, we'll just be a minute - my wife's just inside the shop,", the man explained to the traffic warden, but the traffic warden nevertheless finished writing the ticket and placed it on the car.

"Listen, you idiot, I said we'll just be a minute. What's wrong with you?" tried the man again. The offended traffic warden did not answer, instead just writing a second ticket to join the first. "Look, you f****** ****, we won't be long!" shouted the man, resulting in an angry look from the traffic warden - and a third ticket. After another barrage of abuse resulted in a fourth ticket, the man finally stopped his stream of insults, and the traffic warden departed.

The man's wife came out of the shop and said "Come on, Henry. We don't want to miss the bus."

It's the little things in life.

(Does anyone have a transcript of the original? I feel I've butchered it here!)

DoctorFoster

PenguinJim wrote: »

I've failed to find the link to this story, so my apologies if this retelling is rubbish. But a retired gentleman and his partner were in town shopping, and the man stood outside while his wife was inside a particularly dull shop. This allowed him to notice the traffic warden approach and begin writing the ticket. "Excuse me, we'll just be a minute - my wife's just inside the shop,", the man explained to the traffic warden, but the traffic warden nevertheless finished writing the ticket and placed it on the car.

"Listen, you idiot, I said we'll just be a minute. What's wrong with you?" tried the man again. The offended traffic warden did not answer, instead just writing a second ticket to join the first. "Look, you f****** ****, we won't be long!" shouted the man, resulting in an angry look from the traffic warden - and a third ticket. After another barrage of abuse resulted in a fourth ticket, the man finally stopped his stream of insults, and the traffic warden departed.

The man's wife came out of the shop and said "Come on, Henry. We don't want to miss the bus."

It's the little things in life.

(Does anyone have a transcript of the original? I feel I've butchered it here!)

Story or poor joke?

Whatever you call it, it never happened.

InsideInsurance

I always find my walk into the office from the tube station amusing. There are always several delivery lorries parked on double yellow lines in the area as most the other roads are red routes and almost without fail a traffic warden or two about.

Unlike anywhere else in the UK though the traffic wardens and the drivers are really friendly to each other, many seem to know each other by name and have a chat whilst the warden issues them a ticket. Normally they part company with the ticket being handed over, a shake of the hand and a "keep well" or such. Even overheard a few saying "see you tomorrow"

It does somewhat make a mockery of the whole fine aspect of it but at least shows that some people can accept that wardens are just doing their job

Ebe_Scrooge

phill99 wrote: »

OP : having looked at your other witty, intelligent and erudite other posts, have you considered a career in TV? The Jeremy Kyle Show has a chair with your name on it.

Oh dear - I have to agree with you. I don't think the OP was first in the queue when brains were being dished out

In fact, I'm almost tempted to say that most of his posts are bordering on spam ?

Nilrem

InsideInsurance wrote: »

I always find my walk into the office from the tube station amusing. There are always several delivery lorries parked on double yellow lines in the area as most the other roads are red routes and almost without fail a traffic warden or two about.

Unlike anywhere else in the UK though the traffic wardens and the drivers are really friendly to each other, many seem to know each other by name and have a chat whilst the warden issues them a ticket. Normally they part company with the ticket being handed over, a shake of the hand and a "keep well" or such. Even overheard a few saying "see you tomorrow"

It does somewhat make a mockery of the whole fine aspect of it but at least shows that some people can accept that wardens are just doing their job

I suspect the delivery drivers know the wardens if it's a regular route, and also know that the tickets will be disputed by their companies and probably cancelled (IIRC it's incredibly common for that to happen).

Personally every experience I've had with traffic wardens has tended to be good, probably in part because I tend to be cautious with where I park, and double check with the warden when in doubt (I've had wardens point out the best spots to park to avoid accidental damage from delivery trucks etc).