Was this guy out of order??

captainautumn

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

Yer man was a twat.

connundrum

Joo snooze, joo lose.

Be glad that he didn't steal your car too

Mr.Plough

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

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

Linford

azezil wrote:

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

You ever been inside/smelt one of those elevators?

prendy

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

bronte

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

Schism

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

DevilsBreath

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

biko

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

ejmaztec

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

Wacker

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

faceman

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

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

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

Dave!

Sounds like a c*nt to me