SIR - On the day I read the letter, Booked for parking on Easter Monday (Oxford Mail, April 14), I was in Summertown in north Oxford.

While I was at the Lloyds Bank cashpoint, a man parked his van on double yellow lines nearby.

Within seconds, a parking attendant put a ticket on the windscreen and disappeared.

I was at the bank for about 10 minutes and another car pulled on to the yellow lines. I stood and watched -- I could not believe what I saw.

The parking attendant was sitting in her car. When a car arrived on the yellow lines, she got out, pounced with a ticket and then got back into her car -- no three-minute warning!

I was so angry at what she was doing. All right, she was doing her job, but to sit in her car and catch people in that way is unbelievable.

JULIE JONES

Roman Road

Wheatley