"oh no I heckled a person tasked with parking enforcement into saying that she won't give me a ticket, and she gave me a ticket anyways! wtf!"

These workers encounter 100 people like you a day. Half of them will verbally accost the worker if they respond "yeah, you gotta fix that or you'll get a ticket". It's easier to just tell people they're set in order to continue with the drudgery w/o problems.