Appologies for dragging up an age old complaint but i really need to let off steam over this.
I arrive home this evening and receive a phone call from the wife, she has been clamped for the second time in as many months in the train station car park.
Now, since the introduction of 'pay parking' in the station she has bought a valid ticket each and every week. In the first clamping incident the ticket had slid off the dash and fallen,as she shut the door, face UP on the floor. Had the clamper had the sense (which is, no doubt, an attribute that most clampers do not posess) to avert his eyes in another direction apart from the dash board, he would have noticed the unintentional mistake that had occured. This, i suspect, is not in their remit.
Now to today's incidednt. My wife had the cheek to display two tickets. One for last week and one for this. The clamper, in his wisdom, decided to ignor the valid ticket and choose to determine the invalid ticket was the one he liked.
On the first occasion i could almost forgive the guy. Perhaps he forgot his prescription glasses or whatever but today i fell like removing his testicles.
I phoned the company in question, not to berate but to question whether it's possible to purchase a more sturdy, annual permit or the like but alas no, we have to keep buying weekly tickets that weigh approx 0.003 grams and ensure they are securly balanced on the dash after closing the door, breathing or god forbid, breaking wind.
I'm off to buy a big roll of sellotape.
(No association to sellotape by the way)
I arrive home this evening and receive a phone call from the wife, she has been clamped for the second time in as many months in the train station car park.
Now, since the introduction of 'pay parking' in the station she has bought a valid ticket each and every week. In the first clamping incident the ticket had slid off the dash and fallen,as she shut the door, face UP on the floor. Had the clamper had the sense (which is, no doubt, an attribute that most clampers do not posess) to avert his eyes in another direction apart from the dash board, he would have noticed the unintentional mistake that had occured. This, i suspect, is not in their remit.
Now to today's incidednt. My wife had the cheek to display two tickets. One for last week and one for this. The clamper, in his wisdom, decided to ignor the valid ticket and choose to determine the invalid ticket was the one he liked.
On the first occasion i could almost forgive the guy. Perhaps he forgot his prescription glasses or whatever but today i fell like removing his testicles.
I phoned the company in question, not to berate but to question whether it's possible to purchase a more sturdy, annual permit or the like but alas no, we have to keep buying weekly tickets that weigh approx 0.003 grams and ensure they are securly balanced on the dash after closing the door, breathing or god forbid, breaking wind.
I'm off to buy a big roll of sellotape.
(No association to sellotape by the way)
