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The mother waiting for her child looks me straight in the eye and then quietly mouths a series of swear words.

I am, for 30 minutes, the enemy.

We are outside St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary, in Romany Road, Twydall, in the Smart car - or CCTV mobile enforcement vehicle, to give its official council designation.

And we are parked on double yellow lines - for 30 minutes. With its distinctive periscope parking snapper on top we're impossible to miss.

And it isn't long before we start getting a reaction.

One mother simply mumbles that we are parked on double yellow lines before trailing off into quiet expletives.

Another man approaches takes a photograph of it and begins shouting about “setting an example”.

He does not stay long enough to hear parking manager Rubena Hafizi’s explanation for parking there.

Instead he waves a hand like he’s on the Jerry Springer show, says something about not caring “what the argument is” and walks away.

The third parent also takes a photograph and then speaks, at first angrily, to Rubena but is far more reasoned in her approach. At least she has a go at listening.

I have been driving for eight years and have had three parking tickets issued in that time. I would only argue one of those three was undeserved.

Rubena, of course, was lovely, although I never expected for a second the council would lumber me with a reporter-hating ogre who’d tell me they loved catching people as they got bonuses for tickets issued.

Rubena had some good points to make about the Smart car and the staff who drive it.

“The staff do take some stick. People have spat at the car, taken pictures of it and intimidated staff,” she said. “We have had staff being forced off the road by erratic drivers who then make complaints themselves.

"They are just doing a job. I am sure it is not their life’s ambition, but it is a job.”

“Sixty per cent of the calls and letters we receive are people asking for us to come to their road.”

At the Medway Messenger office it sometimes seems as though half our mail is made up of complaints and photographs of the Smart car.

Be it a speeding driver or parking on double yellow lines, we have photographs and angry residents threatening unmentionable acts against the staff and the car.

But Ms Hafizi is quick to respond, saying all complaints are looked into thoroughly.

She said: “I can understand what people are getting at, but if the Smart car doesn’t park there (on double yellow lines) then sometimes it is impossible for them to enforce the law."