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"Pay for Parking signage is stupid"

About: Queen Elizabeth Hospital (London)

The machine to pay for parking at the hospital entrance is stupidly set up, with signs that have not been looked at intelligently for the benefit of customers coming to it for the first time. You can type in a car's numberplate easily enough, but then you notice that the warning about typing the details exactly right puts a space in the numberplate and there is no space on the keypad. You feed a card into the slot and nothing happens, until you grovel down low and see a keypad asking for a P I N number followed by Enter, but there is no key marked Enter. Your card is declined, so you try again. A queue builds up behind you. Fortunately one person in that queue knows the trick for using the machine: there is a pad for tapping a contactless card. However, that pad is not marked. Whoever set up and manages this machine needs a boot up backside. Also whoever set up this feedback website for saying that "Your review cannot include words that are all in capital letters", because card payments need a P I N number and hospitals are full of acronyms such as M R I, C O P D, etc.

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