Yes, 193!

A car park user got onto the P+R bus and I asked how many passengers they had. “Why do you want to know that”? “Because they need tickets printed for each of them so they don’t get charged on the return trip” I explained. “Is this something new”? “It’s been like that as long as I’ve driven the P+R service, which is two years”. “Oh, it was longer ago than that when I last used it”. God knows why she asked if this ticketing was something new if she’d not been on a P+R bus for years!

Several times the bell rang about 50 yards past a stop. Before the stop it didn’t ring, before the stop no one raised themselves off the seat, before the stop they didn’t collectively think hard enough for telepathy to work. So how was I to know?

Twice I was offered £20 notes for the 40p fare between stops in town. Few people use a P+R bus like this, to the extent that my takings in 4 hours were £1.60 so how the devil can I change £20 notes? If I’d been able to give change totaling £39.20 I’d have taken £2.40 in total!

Plus the usual hijackings of the bus by, most often, the wife. Stands just inside the door of the bus saying “My husbands just parking the car” leaving unspoken the thought “you can’t drive off with me stood by the door”. You don’t think so :-)