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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:18:27 -0000
"michael adams" wrote:
Perhaps I'm just an optimist but I had assumed they'd worked.

Eh ? You just posted this -

"As usual ticket machines not accepting cash so go to ticket window:"

Like I said, I was being optimistic. And which bit of me not knowing about
the 5 quid rule didn't you understand? I haven't used the tube to commute
on a regular basis for about 3 years so why would I?

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What's commuting on a regular basis got to do with anything ?
You regularly post your whinges about your experiences on LU
which would seem to suggest an occasional need to top up your
Oyster Card. Your unfamiliarity with the rule in question
therefore must be the result of your normally topping it
up by amounts in excess of £4.99. Whereas on this occasion for
some reason you chose to try and use the change from your
sandwich purchase.

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In an ideal world "everything would work", "everyone would agree
with everybody else". "there would be enough of everything
to go round", and everybody would be happy" blah blah blah.

It doesn't require an ideal world for LU to fix their ****ing ticket machines.
Just competant management.

In such circumstances, unless you're stony broke and have no choice
in the matter, going anywhere with just £4.80 in cash in your
pocket is just dumb.

I'd already bought something else. So what? Have you never heard of cards?
This is 2012 , not 1970.

Johnny Jobsworth - i.e somebody with a job he/she needs to hold onto,
in order to put a crust on the table.

Cue violins...

Esther Rantzen regularly got top ratings and so had no fear of losing her
job. What's your excuse I wonder ?

Your grammer is perfect but you're making no sense whatsoever. Are you a bot?

That £4.80 cash sounds mighty suspicious to me. Some sort of daily allowance
maybe ?

No , its what known as "change". Now you get that when you go to a shop and
buy stuff like , oh sandwiches, for a tenner. Hasn't your carer explained all
this to you?

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But why didn't you use your card ? Why pay cash when you could use
your card ?

I quote -

"Have you never heard of cards? This is 2012 , not 1970."

If you'd used your card to pay the £5.10 for the sandwiches instead of
using your solitary £10 note, then that would have given you
greater, if still somewhat limited, flexibility, later on.

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No it isn't. It saves Guardian reading tickets clerks from having
to agonise for minutes on end over whether to use their discretion
in particular circumstances.

Well admittedly if they're Guardian readers then any common sense decision will
be difficult since anyone who reads that sorry rag generally doesn't have any.
But one lives in hope.

In any case if your attitude on this NG is in any way typical of
your approach to LU staff, then I'd be surprised if any would ever
be tempted to show you any discretion under any circumstances.

Being pleasant with him didn't work. Next time I won't bother.

You didn't smile at him, did you ?


So you'd stil be moaning, whatever the rule.

All I'll say is - thank god for cars.

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And for the Congestion Charge, presumably.


michael adams

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B2003