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I'm thinking of taking my rants to wider audience than the residents of OOF, just wondered if anyone had written in before and did they get published. Also any tips on writing one welcomed. Keep it short I think a good plan.
Telegraph I was thinking of.

cheers all!

Ask me nicely and I'll tell you my latest moan! :)
 
Gwarn then, Keith, what's gotcha all riled up this time?
 
Ricardodaforce said:
You need to relax.
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Relaxing doesnt get things changed. (Writing to a paper prob doesnt either but hey at least you could say you've been published!)

Nod said:
Gwarn then, Keith, what's gotcha all riled up this time?
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Parking machines not giving change. Its the 21st century FFS. It should be made illegal to charge for something and not offer change. Also these bloody machines, the cost is *always* 60p, £1.10, £1.70, £2.20 or whatever, so youve got even less chance of having the exact money and they get to keep your money more often.

Ok then you dont want to give us change, give us a ticket for the amount of time we've paid for. If it's £1.10 an hour and I put a quid in, make my ticket expire in 55 minutes, or if it's £2.30 for 3 hours and I put £2.50 in give me 3 hours 14 minutes (or whatever it is) these things would be dead simple to do. Or (at least some do now) offer us a chance to pay by debit card)

Rip off through and through i tell ya. Come the revolution..
 
Being non smokers, we both keep a load of parking change in the ashtrays so we always have the right money for the P&D machines. Do agree that it would make life easier if they could simply issue tickets for the amount we pay rather than making it hourly rate or part thereof! Then again, I tend to slide down on the bike - free parking!!!
 
Be prepared for parts of your letter to be editted out without asking.
 
You know you're going to park there...take the right money, ya big girl's blouse.


NEXT! :lol:
 
If writing to the times, I find I always get published if I use an Assumed name,
Yours faithfully

Col. A Fotherington-Smythe (Rtd)
 
viv1969 said:
You know you're going to park there...take the right money, ya big girl's blouse.
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The whole f***** point is I probably don't have the right money in the house and I dont always know where Im going to park if Im out for the day somewhere new or something. And I dont want to have to go and park somewhere else first just to buy something I dont want to get some silver change I can then use to go park elsewhere. Move along now and annoy someone else.
 
DorsetDude said:
Well that solves that issue for everyone else on the planet then. Phew. I'll put my pen away.
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Pen? Wow, you really ARE going old school. How about a strongly worded electronic mail instead? :)
 
DorsetDude said:
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The whole f***** point is I probably don't have the right money in the house and I dont always know where Im going to park if Im out for the day somewhere new or something. And I dont want to have to go and park somewhere else first just to buy something I dont want to get some silver change I can then use to go park elsewhere. Move along now and annoy someone else.
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Blimey :lol: Go and have a lie down Princess....You'll feel better....it's free, and when you wake you might possibly recognise when someone's taking the Mick :rolleyes: :ROFLMAO:
 
Oh dear, you really are having a bad day aren't you.
So parking machines? Perhaps you should team up with daugirdas :-) I'm pretty sure that between you you could overcome all the important issues of the motoring world. :-)
 
To summarise so far then; Ive made a suggestion that will reduce vast swathes of the general public being ripped off by corporations using machines to ask you to pay for things, in this case parking.
If you always have the correct money on you or keep change in the car this suggestion will have no impact on your life whatsoever, nada, zilch, you can carry on using your method with no problem at all.
If you don't, it will help you save money or get what you pay for.

If you belong to the first group and still want to argue over the suggestion, todays top tip is: save time by going and standing in front of a mirror and arguing with that instead.

HTH HAND!
 
In all seriousness, how is anyone being ripped off?
The price of parking is clearly displayed.
The fact that no change is given is (or should be) stated on the machine.
They require a set amount of money for a set amount of time.
Anyone putting excess money in the machine chooses to do so.
There's no rip-off.
 
DorsetDude said:
I'm thinking of taking my rants to wider audience than the residents of OOF, just wondered if anyone had written in before and did they get published. Also any tips on writing one welcomed. Keep it short I think a good plan.
Telegraph I was thinking of.

cheers all!

Ask me nicely and I'll tell you my latest moan! :)
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Great idea. My thoughts about b******t need to spread beyond TP :)
 
viv1969 said:
In all seriousness, how is anyone being ripped off?
The price of parking is clearly displayed.
The fact that no change is given is (or should be) stated on the machine.
They require a set amount of money for a set amount of time.
Anyone putting excess money in the machine chooses to do so.
There's no rip-off.
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No mirrors in your house then?
 
There is an easy solution to this. Just park and don't pay. In due course, the nice man will come along and give you a ticket. The following week a demand for payment will be sent to you by post which you can then pay online using your credit/debit card from the comfort of your living room. Okay, so it means paying £30 each time you want to park but at least you don't have to keep shed loads of change in the car.
 
DorsetDude said:
sigh

The whole f***** point is I probably don't have the right money in the house and I dont always know where Im going to park if Im out for the day somewhere new or something. And I dont want to have to go and park somewhere else first just to buy something I dont want to get some silver change I can then use to go park elsewhere. Move along now and annoy someone else.
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Park for free in the residential if you can or go shopping elsewhere where there are no f*****g meters. Town centres need to die out to make councils realise they are such clueless c***s
 
daugirdas said:
Park for free in the residential if you can or go shopping elsewhere where there are no f*****g meters. Town centres need to die out to make councils realise they are such clueless c***s
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I do but I still thought changing the law to outlaw such machines would still be a good thing. And would benefit me when I do venture or have to use them. The idea was just too good to keep to myself. :D
 
DorsetDude said:
I do but I still thought changing the law to outlaw such machines would still be a good thing. And would benefit me when I do venture or have to use them. The idea was just too good to keep to myself. :D
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Absolutely. I thought it would be wise to start a new Free Unlimited Parking political movement / party
 
DorsetDude said:
You missed my top tip in post #19 then sweetcheeks?
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And then I asked a straight question.
The truth is you can't pinpoint the ripoff because there isn't one.
You've been a berk a and turned up to a car park with the "wrong kind of change" once too often, so now it should be criminalised. :lol: :lol:
 
daugirdas said:
Absolutely. I thought it would be wise to start a new Free Unlimited Parking political movement / party
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Or the Free Anywhere Parking party, or FAP for short. FAP in town, FAP in the country, FAP wherever you want.
 
viv1969 said:
And then I asked a straight question.
The truth is you can't pinpoint the ripoff because there isn't one.
You've been a berk a and turned up to a car park with the "wrong kind of change" once too often, so now it should be criminalised. :LOL: :LOL:
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Try a brick wall if no mirrors available?
 
I'm not irate, far from it. Having a good chuckle watching you pretending not to be.
 
Nothing for me to be irate about. I always have change :-)
 
victor mildrew said:
I don't believe it
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Oh and come and join me in UKIP
(United Kingdom Irresponsible Parker's)
There's nothing like a bit of anarchy :thumbs:
 
Cobra said:
Oh and come and join me in UKIP
(United Kingdom Irresponsible Parker's)
There's nothing like a bit of anarchy (y)
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Nice try. I thought IP stood for idiot party
 
jeez and i thought it was going to be something important... Even I, King of complaining and annoying CEO's cannot give a tuppeny f**k about parking machines!
 
Lynton said:
jeez and i thought it was going to be something important... Even I, King of complaining and annoying CEO's cannot give a tuppeny f**k about parking machines!
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All I can say is, you are missing out on a whole new world in that case :D
 
surely thats what the thing in the car called an ashtray is for... lots of small nugget coins... and think of the satisfaction of feeding it 2p at a time to fill it up so it needs to be emptied quicker...
 
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