10p per 8 minutes?
WTF are Portsmouth City Council thinking? I popped in to Southsea (part of Portsmouth for those that don't know) the other week, it was a Sunday, the sun was shining. I parked the car and went to pay for a ticket. 70p - OK, expensive but where else am I going to park? Now I reckon I'll need a ticket for what, say 3 hours? Right, so that'll be... HTF are people supposed to work that out? 10p per 8 minutes of stay? Someone's having a laugh.
OK it's not hard, but all I want to do is park, pay and piss off without having to do maths to work out that the ticket will cost er...
You can't even divide 60, 30, 20, 10 or any 'usual' part of an hour by 8 exactly. So 8 into 60 goes 7 remainder 4, so 2 hours parking is 70p + (7 x 10p) = £1.40. And that's not strictly true because for £1.40 you only get 1 hour and 56 minutes parking, so you're over time and liable to a £60 fine.
I want to stay for 3 hours, so there's a remainder of 4 minutes per extra hour after the first which gives me 70p + ((7x 10p) x2) + 10p = £2.20
Got there. Took some working out but I finally got there...
...oh, and as per usual, NO CHANGE GIVEN. Tight b*st*rds !!
Blue Skies thinking @ 12/08/2004 02:00:00 PM
3 Comments:
At Thu Dec 09, 11:08:00 PM,
Brom said…
Maybe there's some exchange rate thinggy to be applied here, p'raps the rate varies index linked to the Euro or sommat daft like that.
Ah, Southsea!, I used to pop down there to see a mate on occasions about 6 years ago. We used to have a beer or two, (-ish) in a cracking little back street local. I think it was called "The 5th Hants" after a regiment, Gales beers I seem to remember and the copper pipes in the Gents were all polished, always a sign of a good landlord!
At Sun Dec 12, 11:17:00 AM,
Lever said…
That must be the Fifth Hampshire Volunteer Arms - it's in the Good Beer Guide 2003 which described the public bar as having a "rare collection of hardhats and an overcooked pizza" ??? Sounds like quite a place :)
At Mon Dec 13, 09:34:00 PM,
Brom said…
Yup, that definitely sounds like it, not that we ever went ino the public bar so I can't comment on the decorations!, hmmm maybe I'll have to plan a return trip.
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