Parking, by Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology

@Cat: You really are an arsehat, aren’t you? Have you actually read the comment stream here? Have you bothered to look around the site to see whether I am actually “a hippy bum who does not even work themselves” to discover that, well, I’m not? No. You haven’t.

You’ve decided to defend someone who is — let’s make this point again — parking illegally when there’s legal parking just a few metres away. That is, you are defending a lazy person.

If, Dear Lazy Arsehat, you had bothered to read the previous comments, you would have seen me point out that the courier here is not actually picking up “very urgent bloods such as blood transfusion x matching etc”. He is collecting routine blood samples from a local GP. It’s routine stuff like their six-monthly cholesterol test or whether they’ve got herpes or not.

There is nothing urgent happening here. Nothing. Urgent stuff happens at hospital A&E departments.

Nevertheless pathology couriers lie about the “urgency” of their work when it’s not urgent, just to avoid parking regulations and to avoid walking 20 metres.

He is not “doing his job well”, he is being lazy. End of story. Why are you defending him?

And before you ramp up about “I do not expect that you would understand”, consider this fact: I was the systems administrator for a pathology laboratory for a couple of years. I’m actually quite well informed about the industry.

What is your connection with the industry, Cat?

@Cat: So, your logic is that if someone is “at work” as opposed to doing something in their own time, it’s OK for them to act illegally? Because they’re “doing their job”?

I come back to my initial point. The sign says you can’t park here. The driver is parking illegally when he could, with a tiny bit of effort on his part, park legally. That is, he is lazy.

You’re also confusing “important” and matters of “life and death” with “urgent”. If a medical situation is something that can’t possibly wait another two minutes for driver to park his car properly, the patient won’t be visiting a local GP and sending off blood samples to a laboratory half an hour’s drive away to get results three days later. They’ll be in an ambulance on the way to a hospital where the tests can be done straight away.