Driver's faith in traffic wardens is 'restored' after she receives kind note on windscreen

Nearly all drivers know that traffic wardens are notoriously uncompromising – and it’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to avoid a penalty charge if you’re in the wrong.

But Penny Cross says that her faith in the high-vis jacketed road warriors ‘has been restored’ after one left a friendly note on her windscreen.

Penny, 35, thought she was going to be late for a dinner date when she couldn’t find a parking space.

A parking attendant suggested a place where she could park – but Penny was stunned when she returned to her car and spotted what appeared to be a penalty charge affixed to her windscreen.

She needn’t have worried though – it was actually a note from the parking warden in which he wished her a good evening.

‘Hope you have had a lovely meal. Regards, your friendly traffic warden’, the note read.

Penny, a Devon-based photographer, explained: ‘I was sat in the car and a traffic warden came past and said I needed to move.

‘That’s when the panic set in. I drove around for a bit but there were still no spaces anywhere, I just thought I’d never find one.

‘I ended up at a car park nearby to the last one and there he was again – the same warden.’

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The traffic warden eventually let Penny park in a ‘private’ spot which hadn’t been properly labelled – and let her pay for a two hour stay.

Now, she’s over the moon.

‘I was fuming for a good ten minutes thinking I had been booked after all’, she said.

‘But then I opened it and found the note and it’s restored my faith in traffic wardens.’

‘You get those moments in life where a random act of kindness makes you realise there are some lovely people out there’, she added.

Still, we’re not risking parking anywhere where we shouldn’t be…