Did The Traffic Warden Troll The Student?

Most of us will be familliar with that feeling as we race back to our car chanting "please don't let me have got a ticket" in our heads over and over having realised that we overstayed our ticket, or on the one day we took a risk because we had no change for the meter.

Finding a parking ticket on your windscreen is a frustrating experience, even if you know you’re in the wrong.

This driver even left a hastily-scrawled handwritten note pleading not to get a ticket. The driver, believed to be a student at the University of Georgia in the US, wrote: ‘Had to park here, very late for test. Please don’t ticket me.’

Source: Reddit

You can sense the desperation – ‘please’ is underlined twice, despite their politeness, the traffic warden failed to grant their request, but also if this image is to be believed failed to show any sympathy whatsoever.

A letter placed by the University of Georgia’s parking services next to the student’s note has its own handwritten message: ‘Hope you failed.’

Of course, there’s no way of knowing if it was the traffic warden who wrote ‘hope you failed’ in the image, which was posted on Reddit.

Even if the ‘warden’s message’ was staged, it just goes to show that not even a polite note will stop you from getting a ticket.