A mother of two got a shock when she returned from a 30-minute shopping trip to be told her car parking would cost her £1,333. The machine normally charges 50p an hour but it had calculated her stay at 308 days.
She said: ‘I was just buying a few bits and bobs. When I put my token in to pay I couldn’t believe it.’ Mrs Slater, from Norton Leys, Warwickshire, parked in the Clock Towers Shopping Centre multi-storey in Rugby on Saturday.
She said: ‘When I called security and told him how much it would cost,he said, “Yes, that’s correct”. ’ Car park bosses eventually admitted the computer had misread the ticket and apologised. ‘It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like that,’ said the centre’s manager, Tony Spencer.
6 comments:
Bits and bobs. I want to go to the UK so I can talk like that. :)
What prevents you from saying that now? The people where you live have a murderous hatered for unfamiliar expressions?
:)
Because I can't go walking around town saying "bits and bobs" with a fake English accent. It would be so much more fun to fake it in England.
When in Rome....
Is it common for the period and comma to be in those positions? If I read that, I would assume it meant one-and-a-third pounds...
That's just one of the little differences between the English/American way and the way in continental Europe, I think. When writing numbers in English I need to consciously remind myself to do the switch and put a period instead of a comma before the decimals. This machine probably uses the non-English way of displaying numbers because it was made in Germany and translating that part of the system wasn't worth the hassle.
No, it's no common to use a comma there in the UK, L.
Insolitus explains it much better than I could, mind.
Thanks Insolitus!
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