Non-motoring > Nice Car Park Attendant at the Hospital Miscellaneous
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New Fri 21 Feb 25 20:53 
 Nice Car Park Attendant at the Hospital - zippy
Mrs Z has been at the hospital all day with MIL (A&E X-Rays etc.)

She arrived at 14:00 and left at 20:00 (approx.). MIL is staying overnight we think and SIL has taken the next shift.

As she was leaving, the carpark attendant was maintaining one of the carpark pay-point machines.

He said "You've been here a long time - I saw you arrive when I started my shift."

Mrs Z replied that she's been around the hospital with MIL and she's still here.

He asked to see her ticket and said "this will be expensive - about £11."

He put the ticket in the machine with his card and said, "I'll be going in 15 minutes and the car park has to be left open anyway" and cleared the charge.

A nice gesture.
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New Sat 22 Feb 25 19:25 
 Nice Car Park Attendant at the Hospital - John Boy
If it's the hospital I'm thinking of, something similar has happened to me there. On the other hand, in the early 2000s, a previous car park attendant made being miserable and unfriendly into an art form. The NHS is not all bad news!
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New Sat 22 Feb 25 20:22 
 Nice Car Park Attendant at the Hospital - zippy
On the Ridge, and yes, Mr Miserable parking attendant was there in the early 2000's when you had to buy parking tickets in advance and got Mrs Z who had been by her dying father's bedside. She had paid for a ticket but clearly didn't want to leave his bedside.

The local MP got the fine rescinded.
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New Sat 22 Feb 25 22:59 
 Nice Car Park Attendant at the Hospital - John Boy
Around that time there was also a young man there sometimes. I once saw him explaining to someone, who was trying to dodge paying, why it was an anti-social thing to do. He did it in an exquisitely polite and reasonable manner. I got chatting to him afterwards and he told me he was doing evening classes to improve his English! I later saw him walking through the rough part of town in full teddy boy regalia.
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