Was this guy out of order??

captainautumn · 13-09-2007 11:17am #1

I spent yesterday in Dublin City Centre as I volunteered to accompany my parents on their hospital appointments. We had some time to kill at midday, so we decided to have lunch near Stephen's Green.
I parked in one of those rediculously expensive off road parking spaces as my parents are not great with the stairs in multi-storey car-parks between hip replacements and bad backs.
After parking I proceeded to empty my pockets of change, only to realise that I had only enough for one hour's parking, which would not be long enough before we returned to the car. I called to my father from across the road to help me out with some change, but before he could cross the road to insert his coins this skangery-headed workman appeared from nowhere and pressed the green button.
Asking him why he did this he replied with barely concealed hostility that he 'thought I was finished.' I had to then pay for parking twice as the first parking ticket was useless for the time I had intended parking.:mad:
The question is, am I a dithery red-neck from the sticks who should be more swithed on when parking in the city or was the workman a low-life skanger with no manners?
One way or the other, I was glad to head out into the wide expanses of Kildare/Laois countryside yesterday evening and leave this kind of ****e behind me.;)

AlmightyCushion · 13-09-2007 11:19am

Yer man was a twat.

connundrum · 13-09-2007 11:22am

Joo snooze, joo lose.

Be glad that he didn't steal your car too

Mr.Plough · 13-09-2007 11:25am

muppet. at least you can afford to pay for the ticket, he probably sang on grafton st for 2 hours to be able to park his wheelbarrow legally.

azezil · 13-09-2007 11:27am

Eh... those multi-story car parks DO have elevators ya know

Linford · 13-09-2007 11:37am

azezil wrote:

Eh... those multi-story car parks DO have elevators ya know

You ever been inside/smelt one of those elevators?

prendy · 13-09-2007 11:39am

he was well outta order but iv come to expect it in Dublin:(

bronte · 13-09-2007 11:41am

That was quite rude....he could have asked you if you were finished at least!

Schism · 13-09-2007 11:48am

Very rude but not out of the ordinary, not shocking anymore... sigh...

DevilsBreath · 13-09-2007 12:16pm

Bouncing his head off the dispenser for a while would have shown him the error of his ways.

biko · 13-09-2007 12:20pm

You don't press other peoples buttons and get away with it

ejmaztec · 13-09-2007 12:22pm

That's what you get, dealing with a different species.

Wacker · 13-09-2007 12:42pm

It might have been an innocent mistake; they may have been away with the fairys. It happens. Otherwise it was very ignorant.

faceman · 13-09-2007 12:49pm

OP, there is nothing wrong with dublin. you must be tellin fibs?

we'll prob find out later you were sticking american dollars in the parking meter.....

(or you got your life partner to do it...)

cjt156 · 13-09-2007 1:01pm

Guy is a dickhead, apparently they have them outside Dublin too.
BTW the Mercer/Stephen's Green multistorey lifts have been spotless any time I've used them.

patrickc · 13-09-2007 2:10pm

he should have given you the money for the 1st ticket, the asswipe

Dave! · 13-09-2007 3:13pm

Sounds like a c*nt to me

Was this guy out of order??

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