Automatic car park barriers and tickets.
I once knocked the barrier off at Tesco's, but that's another story.
This morning I had to drop my better half off early at the airport.
Arrive at drop off car park, take my ticket from the machine , barrier goes up and into the drop off area I go, park,drop said better half off, give goodbye kissies
all within the free ten minutes and drive to exit barrier.
All good so far, time to go.
Push ticket into slot, spews it out, try again, this time it swallows it and makes a crumpling noise with the ticket going back and forward like a lizards tongue, barrier stays down.
My free ten minutes are running out, try to grab the ticket, but with only a few millimetres popping in and out it's a game of chance and timing.
Eventually grab it, thank God no one is behind me, I then slowly pull it out,waiting for it to tear, just like when the photocopier jams.
Right, got the thing out, let's try again, just before I start this battle all over again I realise I'm trying to push it into the credit card slot, not the ticket slot
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