It’s been a fairly routine (boring) couple of days. Both today and yesterday were local Megabus duties, on Wednesday it was the Portsmouth/Southampton feeder and today I went ‘out of service’ to Bournemouth to do Bournemouth 06:00 departure, Ringwood at 06:30 and then to Winchester for 07:00. At Winchester another driver takes over to do London and then Brighton – got that duty tomorrow. After doing these local Megabus trips I was to work ‘as detailed’ which means that they’ve not got anything for me to do except to hang around until something goes wrong, or extra help is needed. They must have been struggling yesterday because they asked me to go out with a new driver and teach him a local Winchester bus route, I’ve not done a local service for over a year now! Remembering the route is no problem but fare stages last used over a year ago I thought may be a problem. It was a surprise to me how quickly it all came back. The only problem was constantly having to explain to the passengers what was going on, a passenger would get on and say “xxxxx road, please”, I’d say to the driver “75” or whatever the fare stage was for their destination and then the fun began. They’d either say “It’s usually 65p” or “My pass is for free travel” etc. and then I had to keep saying “no, that’s not the fare we’ll know what that is in a moment”.