On Mon, 28 May 2007 12:29:14 +0100, asdf
wrote:

Are you talking about a different London? I use London buses all the
time and that's exactly what happens.

Funnily enough I was thinking that. Indeed, I sometimes keep my card
in my wallet and touch my wallet on the reader, which seems to work
90% of times. When it hasn't, I've never felt that I would be causing
a dangerous situation, nor have I been barged by others, when taking
the few seconds to remove the card from my wallet and touch it
straight onto the machine.

Neil

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Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

Well pardon me but i wasn't aware that either of you were on the bus that i used. Can the holier-than-thou brigade just give it a rest? The original question i posed was about procedure carried out by Revenue Protection Officers. If you haven't got anything relevant to contribute then don't waste my time or yours posting!

traveller wrote:
Neil Williams Wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 12:29:14 +0100, asdf lid
wrote:
-
Are you talking about a different London? I use London buses all
the time and that's exactly what happens.-

Funnily enough I was thinking that. Indeed, I sometimes keep my
card in my wallet and touch my wallet on the reader, which seems
to work 90% of times. When it hasn't, I've never felt that I
would be causing a dangerous situation, nor have I been barged by
others, when taking the few seconds to remove the card from my
wallet and touch it straight onto the machine.

Well pardon me but i wasn't aware that either of you were on the bus
that i used. Can the holier-than-thou brigade just give it a rest?
The original question i posed was about procedure carried out by
Revenue Protection Officers. If you haven't got anything relevant
to contribute then don't waste my time or yours posting!

Discussion of how to go about touching-in so that you *do* notice the
response from the machine is entirely relevant to the situation you find
yourself in. You might even learn how to avoid it happening again.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)