"Mike Bristow" wrote in message
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In article ,
Nick Cooper 625 wrote:
My flatmate has a monthly Zone 2-3 TC on her shiny new Oyster card.
What's the deal at the moment with ticket extensions if she needs to
travel into Zone 1?


At the moment I get a paper one, and show itat the gateline, muttering
something about my Oyster not having Zone 1.



Extensions and Oyster are a total shag. I have a zone 1-2 but my girlfriend
lives in zone 3, therefore when I go round to hers from work (Zone 1) I have
to convince the man/woman in the ticket office that I just want a ticket
from X to Y (where X is the Zone 2/3 boundary on the line and Y is the
destination) and that this blue bit of plastic covers the rest.

Said ticket from X to Y costs £1.10.

Of course the ticket office is always very busy (at Charing Cross) so I
can't get to the ticket office because there's a c.10 person queue and end
up having to buy a ticket for the entire journey @ £2.20 (or £2.10, can't
remember) or miss the train. So that's a free quid "they" are getting
everytime I go to my girlfriend's.

I spose I could dump her to stop this problem but we've just got engaged so
it wouldn't be my preferred option.