I have just been well and truly told off!

My aunty got a fine from taking someone else's ticket!! He shouldn't have spoken to you like though, there are nicer ways of saying no thank you

What a brilliant idea about the annual parking clock, QQ. Wish our council would implement something similar. We do get the first two hours free parking though so I suppose we must be thankful for small mercies.

Miserable old sod, I have done this and people have always said thank you, Have also taken one too when offered. Saved me time and money. Enjoy your cake.

Miserable old beggar......hope you enjoyed your cream cake

Well he was right to refuse it but he could have been more polite about it!

I do it all the time and take tickets if they are offered to me.
Enjoy your cream cake and forget about him.

I would have replied to him that you will offer it to someone more grateful and you are glad that he hadn't accepted it now! You had paid for a space for a car for a certain time and it shouldn't matter what car is in that space if there is time left. Who cares if it's illegal; some rules are stupid and should be challenged. You'd probably get a lesser fine if you'd stabbed someone these days for all the police and courts care!!! Easy pickings is the name of the game in these modern times.

All councils and private companies are just out to rip you off and then complain more people shop on line. Luckily, my local council offers an annual parking clock for about £20 for local residents. You can use it an unlimited about of times for under 3 hours in each car park anywhere within your council tax area so local high streets are well used. My daughter buys me one every year as part of my Christmas present and, as it has no identifying features on it, I can let family borrow it too.

He was an officious type, wasn't he? It'll make you think twice before doing this again but don't let if put you off being kind. In one of my local towns we did this all the time and nobody thought anything of it - it was just what we did.

it was a nice gesture- he's a grumpy so and so.

Aggie have another cream bun on me. What a miserable old git that guy was.

Nannyme I often do what you did and nobody has ever refused my offer. Equally I have benefited from other proples’ offers. If he had strong scruples then he could have just been polite about it. You paid the full whack for a certain time. You just chose to share it with someone else, that’s all.

Victor Meldrew !
When we were in the lake district in August we parked in a town centre car Park that had machines where you had to enter car reg details and cost £3.50 . I only went and put wrong reg in so had to pay again as it had been in the press only the week before someone got fined £100 or more for doing just that .
Fuming I was !!

Good luck Day6 I have successfully appealed 3 Parking Eye fines, 1 for myself and 2 for family members . It can be done. Their often very threatening letters scare people into just paying up .

There should be more noise made about the unfairness of car parking policy and prices.

I was issued a ticket recently because I'd parked slightly over the bay lines in an almost empty car park. The car next to me had parked at a slightly wonky angle so my parking parallel to it caused my tyres to go into the next bay, slightly. I used the shops, and was out within 35 minutes but by then I'd got a ticket on my car and an £80 fine.

Martin Lewis' site gives reasons why these fines are usually unfair so I wrote to the parking firm that night and haven't heard anything back.

Remember Nannyme, yours was a kind and thoughtful gesture. The grump who refused was a miserable and ungrateful individual.

Oh, I did I mention the word 'hours'?

They end up getting paid twice if you've paid for hours that someone else then has to pay for.
I feel you've booked that space for a number of hours, so you should be free to pass on unused hours.
It really makes me cross!

The ungrateful and miserable old geezer. Hope you enjoyed your cake

The cake helped, feeling better now I’ve read your comments and yes I know I shouldn’t but as you say most people are grateful. He was probably an ex councillor, but I like the idea of me being a secret agent sent to catch him out, unfortunately he didn’t look scared of me.

What tina said!

He didn't have to be such a miserable ungrateful old sod about though

Me too nina. I agree Bathsheba why should 'they' get double or more payments per parking space because of this kind of overlap?

I used to do this but it can't be done in my area anymore. You have to enter your Reg No. into the payment machine.

It really annoys me that it's illegal to pass on tickets. If I've paid £4.80 for 4 hours' parking and only use 2 hours, why should the car park owner get another payment for my remaining 2 hours, giving them £7.20 for the £4.80 time period? Surely that is wrong? It's this that makes me, as much as possible, only use pay on exit car parks - a far fairer system.

Maybe he was suspicious that you were a council / private contractor spy out to entrap him.

We have a huge all day car park locally that only allows an all day ticket.....daft really am sure it would be used more if it split the prices into smaller chunks, but that's another matter. I have been offered the remains of people tickets before and have accepted gracefully.
That being said this know-all need not have been so rude, one can decline something with better manners.