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English in UK

Pay and Display

Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?
It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen on their cars to try to cheat the system. The 'theory' was, Rita-the-meter-maid would give up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer to find it before one returned to drive off.

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Erick Andrews
  

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[/nq] Very much so. Though you've got to make sure everyone you display to is over 16. [nq:1]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen ...

  • [/nq] Very much so.
  • Though you've got to make sure everyone you display to is over 16.
  • [nq:1]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen ...
  • [/nq] Look, you can get a ticket just for displaying the sticker on the wrong window or upside-down, or for parking skewed in the bay.
  • Rita, if she's working for a private security firm paid by results, will slap it on and leave it to you to appeal.
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[nq:1]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
Very much so. Though you've got to make sure everyone you display to is over 16.
[nq:1]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen ... up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer to find it before one returned to drive off.[/nq]
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[nq:1]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market!
[nq:1]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but I remember some blokes who would stick a few dozen ... up looking for the current sticker: it might take her longer to find it before one returned to
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[nq:2]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
Only if you insist in bringing your car. Are there still places where 20p is the minimum? In London I don't know of anywhere with a minimum of less than 50p, and in many places it's more than that
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[nq:2]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
I hate the customised automated parking systems used by some car parks which involve getting a ticket from somewhere in the shopping centre (or something). They must be a nightmare for people who
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[nq:2]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
[nq:1]Only if you insist in bringing your car.[/nq]
Why else would you be using whatever paying system in the car park?
[nq:1]Are there still places where 20p is the minimum?[/nq]
Yes, of course. Did you not believe me? If ever you're in GOC on Tuesday, Friday or Saturday,
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[nq:2]Just curious, are the 'pay and display' schemes still used in UK carparks?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding to air pollution and encouraging the tarmaccing of our towns and countryside?

Seems too cheap by far, t
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[nq:1]David wrote in uk.culture.language.english about: Re: Pay and Display[/nq]
[nq:2]Yes; and it really is irksome to have to fork out an entire 20p just to go shopping at the market![/nq]
[nq:1]As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding to air pollution and encouraging the tarmaccing of our towns and countryside? Seems too cheap by far, to me..[/nq]
Aye. Perhaps I should u
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[nq:2]As cheap as that for the dubious privilege of adding ... towns and countryside? Seems too cheap by far, to me..[/nq]
[nq:1]Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.[/nq]
Wow, they have one of these where you live? ;-D

The point being, if you choose to live somewhere with inadequate public transport (or live elsewh
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[nq:1]David wrote in uk.culture.language.english about: Re: Pay and Display[/nq]
[nq:2]Aye. Perhaps I should use the bus that travels directly over the fields.[/nq]
[nq:1]Wow, they have one of these where you live? ;-D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbus[/nq]
Don't think my dogs'd like it.
[nq:1]The p
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[nq:2]It's been a long time for me (States-side, now) but ... longer to find it before one returned to drive off.[/nq]
[nq:1]Never seen that. It does warm the cockles of one's heart, though, that tickets with time left on are regularly passed from leaving to arriving.[/nq]
Moreover, since most car-parking-authority owners require that the ticket be displayed on the windscreen (and fully vi

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