Well is there ever a day recently when there's been no drama from me ?


rhetorical question really...and today was no exception..*sigh*... might have to split this in 2 ...
There's no parking at my docs so we have to park in a public car park and pay to park, the car park is small and invariably full. Today I managed to find a space after a bit of a wait but I only had 5 minutes to get to the doctors surgery.. a good 5 minute walk away...I paid for 2 hours in case I got held up.. £2.10...the machine told me I had until 12 noon to park.. so I shoved the ticket on the dash in the car quickly , and walked fast to the doctors.. as it turned out I needn't have rushed because I was kept waiting 40 minutes past my appointment..
Anyway when I get back to the car , at 11.30m.. I have a parking ticket for £50...
Why ?.. I'm think what the heck, the ticket is on the dash it's well within time what's gone on here.. and when I looked the ticket in my car..even tho' I'd paid for it it hadn't printed on ticket the time... instead it had printed ''No valid ticket''..and I have no idea why it did that cuz I paid.. but I didn't notice, because I didn't look at the ticket before I put it into the car because I'd seen the time I had to be back on the machine..
I've checked and the money came out of my account for the ticket.. I rang the parking company and apparently I have no come back because it wasn't a valid ticket which was on my dashboard.. and that's hat I got the ticket for.. if it had said unpaid, I could have argued it but the ticket said ''Not valid'' I was furious !!...but it's a lesson learned..I'll always check my tickets in future
Here are part of the grounds of my Doc's surgery ( office ) the only car park they have is for Staff only.. so patients even those with disabilities have to pay to park and walk....