Parking is when you leave your car unattended, if you're in the car and the car is on, then you're not parked. This was explained to me by a parking enforcement agent who was nice enough to give me a warning and ask me to move from the fire lane before he wrote me a ticket. Until then, I shared the same idea that this woman did. The difference is that by Law, a fire lane is a no parking and no stopping zone and there's no need to post anything except for the fact that it's a fire lane.
The thing that bothers me, as a owner of a business based on good services, is how easily you two turned this into a joke between you and blew her off. Yes, she's trying to find someone who will agree with her and make her feel better, but we don't have to lower ourselves to a highschool attitude and make fun of her. Just basically inform her she's wrong and go on with it.
Anyway, it's not like I expect you guys to care what I think or to change on my account. You do what you want.
once again, take care ...
mRoc