Parking fines from private company

[Roger Irrelevant]

evolution380 said:

I get why people would be against it but like anything I believe there is a time and place it's acceptable. I use them if it's late at night and none of them are taken or 1 or 2 out of say 10 spaces are occupied. I'll use whichever is furthest away from store. Not taking a provision away from anyone as there are plenty left and I have a safety buffer from morons who don't care about others possessions or have the common courtesy to do the right thing if they do damage someone's car.

I've honestly had my cars scratched, dinged, hit at my own expense on so many occasions I genuinely will not park in a shopping centre car park during peak hours. I've even had a door caved completely in on a car because someone opened their door lost it in the wind and it flung into my door. They looked and drove off leaving no note, unfortunately the cctv couldn't capture their registration.

I'm not a billy big bks, nor do I think I am, I apply a level of consideration to my decision. If i turned up shopping late and for some reason half the P&C spaces were taken then i'd just park far away from the entrance in a normal space and hope some absolute pleb didn't park next to me, and if they did hope they had some common courtesy. Done this before and come back to a scratch down to the metal.

That's all fair enough in my book - if you're reasonably certain you're not going to be depriving somebody who could do with using the P+C spaces for their intended purpose then fine. Ditto if you're struggling with impaired mobility for whatever reason - your shopping trip is that bit more difficult for you than it is for others so I think most people would be happy to make allowance for it. But the argument of 'They haven't specifically said that they don't want me to use the P+C spaces just because I'm precious about my car, so it's fine for me to use them whenever I want' is just ridiculous. I get that people who put that sort of argument forward reckon they're being all no-nonsense and lawyerly, but the impression they really give is of an ahole.

[Hol]

bad company said:

Drumroll said:

bad company said:

There’s a multitude of reasons why someone might use the P&C spaces such as when there’s heavy luggage to load/offload, when incapacitated say after an illness or surgery, I could go on. I use the P&C spaces if I feel I need to, sometimes my need is greater than someone who just happens to have a child in the car.

I don’t think I need to explain why I wouldn’t use the disabled places.

Do you frequently have heavy luggage to move when you park? or are you just trying to justify your reasons. My wife has just had knee surgery and before that could hardly walk, but we have never considered using a P&C space. As we are not that special.

In your situation I’d use the P&C spaces. You obviously disagree which is fine.

I wouldn’t.

But then I don’t have an inferiority complex.

[Hol]

Roger Irrelevant said:

evolution380 said:

I get why people would be against it but like anything I believe there is a time and place it's acceptable. I use them if it's late at night and none of them are taken or 1 or 2 out of say 10 spaces are occupied. I'll use whichever is furthest away from store. Not taking a provision away from anyone as there are plenty left and I have a safety buffer from morons who don't care about others possessions or have the common courtesy to do the right thing if they do damage someone's car.

I've honestly had my cars scratched, dinged, hit at my own expense on so many occasions I genuinely will not park in a shopping centre car park during peak hours. I've even had a door caved completely in on a car because someone opened their door lost it in the wind and it flung into my door. They looked and drove off leaving no note, unfortunately the cctv couldn't capture their registration.

I'm not a billy big bks, nor do I think I am, I apply a level of consideration to my decision. If i turned up shopping late and for some reason half the P&C spaces were taken then i'd just park far away from the entrance in a normal space and hope some absolute pleb didn't park next to me, and if they did hope they had some common courtesy. Done this before and come back to a scratch down to the metal.

That's all fair enough in my book - if you're reasonably certain you're not going to be depriving somebody who could do with using the P+C spaces for their intended purpose then fine. Ditto if you're struggling with impaired mobility for whatever reason - your shopping trip is that bit more difficult for you than it is for others so I think most people would be happy to make allowance for it. But the argument of 'They haven't specifically said that they don't want me to use the P+C spaces just because I'm precious about my car, so it's fine for me to use them whenever I want' is just ridiculous. I get that people who put that sort of argument forward reckon they're being all no-nonsense and lawyerly, but the impression they really give is of an ahole.

Agree.
Talking about exceptions like an empty car park in the middle of the night is all well and good, but that’s not the issue when the problem is people using them during the busy times because fat, lazy, self entitled, or just a .

[blueg33]

Hol said:

Agree.
Talking about exceptions like an empty car park in the middle of the night is all well and good, but that’s not the issue when the problem is people using them during the busy times because fat, lazy, self entitled, or just a .

Mainly the latter I suspect