Thehooperman
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It gets worse30 + Durham blokes making me the star attraction
As @littleme said what kind of party is this?
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As @littleme said what kind of party is this?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
My shed has lodgers, not even finished the roof yet!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Even real cash isn't necessarily good enough.
I've just had to park in the amusingly named West Bank Car Park at Sainsbury's, opposite Simply Bilash*.
One machine had a plastic bag over it, so I tried the other one and it wouldn't take any coin that I offered it. I couldn't see another machine from there and I was about to give up and risk it, when a bloke going past offered me his ticket, so I could leave the car there and not have to worry about the Israeli Army blowing it up.
* Surprisingly, I thought, the little gap in the fence has been recreated there, opposite the end of Castle Street, where the brick wall ends and the fence begins - I expected to have to climb over, to avoid a long unnecessary walk.
littleme
250,000th poster!
Twice this has happened to me this week, someone has given me their ticket , a lovely lady today, and a bloke earlier on in the week, people are lovely. Thank you both very much.
*we won't mention that I have free parking there, but as I had passengers & couldn't use it.
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Mudgie
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Too many motorists passing on their tickets might make the Council think the car park isn't used much and can be closed and sold for development.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
There were two cars in the West Bank Car Park this afternoon, at 3pm, including mine.
littleme
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Bloody machines are never working anyway, they must be loosing money hand over fist.
littleme
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*** I had passengers, I could have dropped them and driven round to MY carpark, but I'm too lazy, and was going to get the money back if I paid anyway.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
They could just fine a few people who can't find a working machine - 'job' done.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
I bloody love that little gap in the fence! Watched a bloke take a saw to it ages ago. He must have been as pissed off as the rest of us having to walk round with heavy bags.
Don't go there! We're still recovering from all the workings for the new road. We felt every single one of them pile drivings.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
You might need to watch the sloping concrete bit in frosty weather, but, at least it's still there, I really didn't expect it to be.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
I have to watch the slopey bit in the dry, the way my knees have been lately, I have to weigh up which leg to lead on. It is so much more easier though.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
They'd sold the space for a set time, doesn't matter who's in it?
BobClay
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Unless you get a car park with a required registration entry which is printed on the ticket. This usually leads to queues and frustration when you can't remember your plate number.
Whatever way they do it, you can bet it's the poor motorist who gets the rotating cactus shoved up their jacksi.
Whatever way they do it, you can bet it's the poor motorist who gets the rotating cactus shoved up their jacksi.
littleme
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The carer onece entered the wrong reg on a ticket for cinema at Newcastle, we ended up paying for 2 tickets instead of one...£16.00 ! Instead of £8.00. The film was crap too, something about zebras that the child wanted to watch ...I fell asleep
Noah
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First came across these in a car park in Wales about 2006. They only let you enter the number not the letters. Lots of cars with 02, 03, 04 0r 05 on their tickets. Could have passed them on without much problem
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I had to do it once at New Cross.
For 'disability access' I presume, the device was at wheelchair height and I had to kneel on the ground, whilst shading the screen with one hand, to avoid the glare of the Sun, as I struggled to defeat the bloody thing.
Mudgie
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The first time I encountered it, probably about 2006, I went back to note the registration number but on returning to the machine someone else had entered theirs so I'd paid for their ticket and I had to pay twice.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Got 2/4 rolls of felt onto the shed last night, second went down in the dark. Fitted the third this morning before work, wondering if I'll get the fourth on before rain...
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Started raining while fitting, gotta go back up Wednesday and nail it properly as just did enough in the dark to hold it down!