traffic wardens and other jerks

Most of us drivers have suffered the indignity of a penalty notice stuck to our windscreen. To be honest I would say I deserved 90% of them, and up to yesterday only one stuck in my mind as totally unjust..But yesterday's ticket took the absolute biscuit and if I ever get hold of the "person", note the quote marks, who wrote it, I am in serious danger of doing bodily harm.

I, you see, are like a many others out there registered disabled complete with a blue badge, due to the fact my back and attachments are not necessarily on speaking terms with my brain. Those of us out there with these badges do get access to more accessible parking, supposedly! That is if it isn't already full of taxis, motorbikes, school run mums in a hurry, delivery lorries and every other jersey who abuses these spaces. There is a reason why we have access to such spaces, we can't walk as far or carry as much as the rest of the world. So where as some people struggle carrying their weekly shop back to their car, in my case a bottle of milk, loaf of bread, the paper and a small box of vegetable burgers has me yelping in pain to get back to the car. But if I wanted a cup of coffee it was non optional. After wasting 20 minutes and god knows what in fuel trying to find an empty space in these bays in a local high street.

Now these bays are sign posted disabled only and if everyone parks in the same direction you can get 4 possibly 5 cars in this space. However yesterday 3 cars managed to occupy the space parked in such a fashion a micra took the space of a limousine.  I was not happy especially as I have a small little 2 seater. There are no white lines round the bays on the bays on the pavement only ripples in the pavement, which I now no means don't cross unless you want  £110 bill. Now this is where I get really cross, when i parked a, I was the only blue badge in the bays.b, the bays rippled markers are on diagonals so unless the  reliant Robin is on the return no normal shaped car fits on the ends, with in these lines, and c, my local borough must have employed a discriminatory twin of an Olympic sprinter.

It's the later point that really got me. Mainly because the law I now find is so variable it's a wonder we all don't have a direct debit going straight to our local parking authority. Now I ain't stupid with parking laws, as my hubby was one of these marshals till he saw the light. I even know enough to have successfully appalled one of those clamping firm tickets he obtained in the summer. But this one got me. Now most tickets a traffic warden has to observe the legal breech for 3 Min's before getting pen to paper, so all those jerks parked in the blue bays have a chance to escape. But apparently if your wheel so much as touches the wrong side of a textured kerb, no observation time is required, that ticket is yours. So I found out yesterday after 30 minutes in a phone queue to query this. Sod the fact that in the 15 minutes I was parked 6 yes 6 other cars were parked illegally in those bays, it me the the blue badge holder, forced to apart on the end bay that got the £110 ticket, or in English I can kiss good bye to 5th of my monthly income this month.

So tell me how the hell this is fair. I who can't walk to the 30 minute free bays that the other cars can use, gets a ticket because of actions of others. Why , if this is the case are there no white lines round these disabled bays showing the point of legality,  why do you have bays in shapes cars can fit unless they either risk a ticket or worse losing the boot to the buses driving behind who don't care if they hit your over hanging arse.

And how the hell can a traffic warden can witness, write up a ticket stick it on my car and disappeared from sight in 3 minutes.. If they can move that fast we should win the 100 metres at Rio this year with them on team UK. Seriously though how come you can abuse a disabled bay and get a 3 minute grace to move your car, and of course 90% of those cars leave the driver in for just this reason. But if you are disabled don't you dare escape your pen or you will pay immediately, no grace allowed.

All this tells me is the laws, even on the road are still as prejudice as they were in the 1970's and we have the prodigal offspring of Hitler employed to crackling the whip. Sure I pay the dam ticket, but seriously I am going to jam up the system with paper work to make sure it isn't cost effective for them to receive the money.

Traffic wardens stop looking for the easy tickets and start ticketing the real jerks.