The power of the hi-viz is amazing.
I am going to provide you all with a life hack here.
If you need to park in a Supermarket car park for longer than the allotted time. Put a hi-viz on or just walk to the customer service desk with confidence. Ask them for the Contractors book and sign in, then ask is you need to register you vehicles Reg. they will do it for you. Walk round the shop for a minute and then disappear off to what ever you want to do.
I don’t think I would have the nerve, but it does remind me of an incident years ago. I was at a meeting with a senior manager in Dundee and when we were about to go back to Glasgow he felt unwell and asked if I would drive us back in his company car, which I would be insured to drive.
The car was a BMW 5 series and I was very careful to keep to the speed limit on the way back. After a while, I noticed that there was a huge queue of cars that were very slowly edging past us overtaking. I actually slowed down a bit and noticed that the queue slowed down as well.
The thing is that these were the kind of rep mobiles that were lucky if they had seen the right side of 90mph since they left the dealership. It then dawned on me: two blokes wearing suits in a top end German saloon driving very carefully must have looked like a dead cert unmarked police car.