glau Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just got back from Peckham Rye Lane Car Park + a > parking ticket. The lifts were not working and by > the time we realized after waiting around and > walked up the stairs with kids in tow, dodging > used syringes and excrements, we were 5 minutes > late. The parking warden was busy writing up the > ticket and although we explained the situation to > him and appealed to his common sense and decency > (what fools we are), he said "it was now out of > his hands" - must be the same friendly guy Louisa > encountered this morning. Of course we are going > to contest it but a horrible hassle all the same. I would quite simply have covered him in petrol and flicked a match!