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Bad Ergonomics - Example 61

Parking receipt

On Crete (Greece) we wanted to park our car. It was well indicated -also in English- that parking was not for free, but where to buy a ticket?

Parking with cards

We found a kiosk and there you could buy parking cards. We should have known, as that was indicated on the reverse of the ticket:

Where to buy

We bought three for three hours. Next problem was what to indicate, time of arrival, or time of expiration (as is printed on most parking receipts). I had no idea, the text gave no clue.

Front side parking card

Another nice thing: according to the text above we had to indicate seconds (right hand bottom), getting that right would be difficult....

submitted by Dick de Waard

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