Ian Jelf wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

In message , Iain
writes
For a while now I've been tempted to do something like that so that the
Oyster sits somewhere halfway up my forearm, and then go to one of the
more touristy central London tube stations and go through the barriers
by waving my arm over the oyster scanner and at just the right moment
clicking my fingers with a flourish. Very puerile but I'd love to see
the expression on people's faces!
One of my clients (from the North of England) was absolutely
*fascinated* by people using Oysters on buses a couple of weeks ago. It
was as though someone had just demonstrated Nuclear fusion to
him.......

I was, too, the first time I saw similar cards in use (in Switzerland in
1999). And yesterday I went into Town and back by Tube, and at the end
of the trip decided I needed to top-up my pre-pay. A friend (a Freedom
Pass user) watched me do it with her mouth hanging open in fascination!
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"Mrs Redboots"
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