I have just been well and truly told off!

It is illegal you know.
Tickets are not transferable.

He was a bit of a know all and holier than thou !! Hope the cream bun helps xxx

Unchivalrous - he couldn't have told you politely and thanked you anyway- have some flowers

Oh dear, Nannyme. What bad luck to get some holier than thou individual, instead of someone who would have been pleased and thanked you.

People have always been grateful when I have done what you did, and I am equally pleased when a ticket is offered to me.

Don't let that miserable man put you off doing it again.

Nannyme ☕️?

We have a council carpark behind our local shops, used to be free. It now charges, it is common practice that we pass on our tickets, although we all know that the tickets are non transferable. Perhaps he was having a bad day.

Pompous old git !

This used to happen a lot in our town centre and local hospital until they installed those vile number plate recognition camera systems (Parking Eye, the biggest con merchants in the history of forever) so we are now unable to gift unused and paid for parking time to another motorist. In fact woe betide if you enter the car park and can't find a space which often happens as Parking Eye will have you on camera and a fine will follow.

In our case we have to type our car registration number into the machine before we get a ticket.

Oh yes those awful number plate recognition set ups. Dreadful things.

And they wonder why people are deserting town centres.

Exactly JenniferEccles . Our local hospital uses them too, crikey knows how much they must make in over payments and fines.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What tina said!

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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 .

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 !!

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.