4:86PM: Time has shifted to the metric system in the UK
UK civil servants use calculators to tell time.
This is sad. A meter maid in the UK wrote a guy a ticket despite the fact that the gentleman has plenty of time left on the meter. Why? Because the meter maid thought that time operated in the metric system. Didn't you know there were 100 minutes per hour?
When the victim of the stupidity protested that he had paid for 75 minutes of parking:
"The warden disagreed and tried to prove his point with a calculator.
He tapped in 14.49 and added 0.75 to produce a total of 15.24, claiming this meant Mr Alsop's ticket had expired at 3.24pm, some 17 minutes before he returned to his car."
The victim tried to explain, but the traffic warden ignored him and kept on ticketing. Coupled with my recent post on the failure of education standards, this story is not surprising.
Lunacy: 4 Common Sense: 2
This is sad. A meter maid in the UK wrote a guy a ticket despite the fact that the gentleman has plenty of time left on the meter. Why? Because the meter maid thought that time operated in the metric system. Didn't you know there were 100 minutes per hour?
When the victim of the stupidity protested that he had paid for 75 minutes of parking:
"The warden disagreed and tried to prove his point with a calculator.
He tapped in 14.49 and added 0.75 to produce a total of 15.24, claiming this meant Mr Alsop's ticket had expired at 3.24pm, some 17 minutes before he returned to his car."
The victim tried to explain, but the traffic warden ignored him and kept on ticketing. Coupled with my recent post on the failure of education standards, this story is not surprising.
Lunacy: 4 Common Sense: 2
posted by Diomedon at
4:24 PM
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